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Eretria

Αρχαιολογικά χρονικά

• Θέμελης, Πέτρος Γ.

Some PG sherds were recently found during excavation in the property No 726 ( Ε/6 ) at Eretria. Most of them belong to the cups ( skyphoi ) decorated with pendent semicircles ( f i g. 1 ) found in many parts of the Mediterranean area from Macedonia to Palestine. Euboea was probably the place of manufacture of this type of skyphoi, which are generally dated between 850 and 750 B.C.The crater fragment of fig. 2, no. 1, decorated with concentric circles and a set of diagonals, painted with a thin multiple brush, seems to be earlier than the others and may probably be dated to the first half of the 9th century.It has already been observed thatPG settlements are confined to the North part of Euboea, which is nearer to Thessaly. The similarities of the PG style of Thessaly to that of Euboea suggest strong early links between Iol- kos and Chalkis, Lefkandi, Eretria; these may even imply a Thessalian origin for the Euboean PG style. The links are apparent as early as the Late Helladic period, as the striking similarities of LH III C pictorial style from Iolkos with the contemporary style from Lefkandi suggest, and continue into the Geometric period.The lines of communication between Thessaly and the fertile plain of Lelas, that is Chalkis, Lefkandi, and Eretria, were known to the poet of the Homeric Hymn to Pythian Apollo ( v. 118) :... τάχα δ’ είς Ίαωλκόν ικανές Κηναίου τ’ επέβης ναυσικλείτης Ευβοίης' στής δ’ επί Αηλάντφ πεδίφ.Β. Eretrian Geometric PotteryDespite the praiseworthy pioneering work of J. Boardman, our knowledge of the Eretrian Geometric pottery workshop is very limited. We still use the vague general term Euboean Pottery and we assume the presence of various influences and imitations ( Cretan, Corinthian, Rhodian, Cypriot, Ionic, Attic, Naxian, and Samian). This interpretation, is mainly due to the limited amount of published material from Eretria. The picture is partly completed by the recent finds from the Euboean trading post of Al Mina on the Syrophoenician coast and from Ischia ( Pithekoussae ), the first Euboean colony in the West.Nevertheless, thanks to the Greek - Swiss excavations at Eretria, and work by the British School at Lefkandi, the material at our disposal has been enriched by new and important finds, thus filling some of the gaps in our knowledge. The publication of the remarkably rich material from the PG cemetery of Lefkandi, which is still being excavated by English and Greek archaeologists, and the Geometric Pottery from the site of Xeropolis, should give a definite answer to this problem.A selection of a very limited number of sherds is illustrated here (fig. 2 ).Finally I should like to point out that the relations between the pottery workshops of the 8th cent. B.C. ought not to be assigned exclusively to mutual influences due to trade or other contacts but also to the formation of a Geometric « Koine» over the entire Hel- ladic area, comparable to the « Koine» of the end of the PG period.

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