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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 11 October 2013
The British excavations at Mycenae in 1953 were continued with a research grant from the American Philosophical Society assisted by contributions from the Universities of Cambridge and Oxford, the British Academy, Bollingen Foundation, and the British School at Athens, under whose aegis the excavations were conducted. The Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton has provided an ideal base for preparing the material for publication.
The excavations began on July 8th, and work ceased on August 24th. On August 25th the bulk of the finds was moved to the Nauplia Museum and stored in the room reserved for the finds from Mycenae. The finds from 1952 are already in this room. We improved its facilities this year by the erection of some wooden shelving. The days from August 26th to August 30th were spent at Nauplia in studying and arranging the finds and in photography. The carved ivories, the tablet and seal impressions have been taken to Athens, but the stone vases were taken to the Nauplia Museum with the pottery.
1 See throughout the map of the area in Fig. 1.
2 BSA XLVIII 8, pls. 4, 5.
3 BSA XLVIII 7, pl. 3 c, d.
4 BSA XLVIII 9, pl. 10 c.
4a Fig. 1 (18).
5 Wace, Mycenae 16 f., pl. 2.
6 LXXIV (1954), 170.
7 BSA XLVIII 11, 12.
8 BSA XLVIII 14.
9 P. 239, Plates 38 and 39.
10 BSA XLVIII 5.
11 Od. II 339, XXI 51.
12 Iliad XVI 221.
13 Od. VIII 424, 438, XIII 10, 68.
14 A set of figure-of-eight shields of various sizes might have decorated a sword scabbard or some similar tapering object on the model of the bronze sword from the Fourth Shaft Grave, Karo, Schachtgräber, pl. LXXXV 404; compare the box lid from Knossos, Evans, Prehistoric Tombs 44, fig. 41, and PM IV 301 f.
15 Corbett, , Jungle Lore 45, pl. 1.Google Scholar I owe this reference to Miss Florence Day.
16 BCH II (1878), pl. XVIII.
17 AE 1888, pl. 8, no. 12 from Tomb 27.
18 Miss Lamb has collected the best known examples, BSA XXV 225. Evans', argument (PM IV 868 ff.)Google Scholar that the boar's tusk helmet is Cretan is unconvincing.
19 Wace, Chamber Tombs 17, fig. 8 d; Furumark, Mycenaean Pottery, fig. 51. Compare the lion heads on the ivory pommel from Shaft Grave IV, Karo, Schachtgräber, pl. LXXVII.
20 Bennett, , ProcAmPhilSoc vol. 97 (1953), 422 ff.Google Scholar
21 BSA XXV 336 (59).
22 Fimmen, Kretisch-Mykenische Kultur 174.
23 PM IV 233 ff.
24 BSA XXV 353 (182). The additional pieces were found by Dr. Mitsos at the Treasury of Atreus and included with Stamatakes' pieces. This list was made during the evacuation of the Museum in 1940–41.
25 PM IV 234, fig. 178.
26 PM IV 235, figs. 180, 181.
27 Archaeology of Crete, xxvi, 54, 227.
28 Wace, Mycenae 127 ff.
29 BSA XLVIII, pl. 9 c.
30 Cf. the South House, BSA XXV 88; see Homer, , Od. XVII 339, XXI 43.Google Scholar
31 BSA XLVIII 14.
32 Bennett, , ProcAmPhilSoc vol. 97 (1953), pl. 14 (12), 424.Google Scholar
33 BSA XLVIII 14, pl. 9c.
34 Bossert, , Alt Kreta 2, pl. 206.Google Scholar
35 BSA XXV 109, pl. XXIX; Rodenwaldt, , Tiryns II 47 ff., 175 ff.Google Scholar
36 AE 1888, pl. 8, 8.
37 BSA XXV, pls. XLII, XLIII; Bossert, , Alt Kreta 2, pls. 220, 221.Google Scholar
38 (Lolling), Kuppelgrab bei Menidi, pl. VI 12; Staïs, , Coll. Myc. 2 169 (1982).Google Scholar Only four are mentioned in the publication, but, as Staïs says, there are ten from this tomb in the National Museum at Athens.
39 Iliad IV 142. Several of the Pratt ivories from Syria in the Metropolitan Museum are decorated with colour and gold, BullMetrMus XXXI (1936), 221 ff. I owe this reference to Mr. C. K. Wilkinson.
40 Barnett, , PEFQ 1939, 4 ff.Google Scholar
41 Bennett, , ProcAmPhilSoc vol. 97, 441 ff.Google Scholar
42 It has even been suggested that it was a script devised for accountancy only.
