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The Modern Pottery Trade in the Aegean

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Stanley Casson
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Archaeologists in general and students of ceramics in A particular largely live in an ancient world of their own creation. They have built up the background of the period they study by means of the material objects available to them, and they have filled in the gaps largely by hypothesis, analogy and guesswork. This, after all, is part of the game. They have decided that they have no alternative. Rarely and with caution they draw comparisons between living and dead primitive cultures. Usually they draw back in alarm, for aboriginal Australians and Bushmen have the irritating habit of not always coming up to the desired level of similarity when comparisons are made between them and men of Neolithic or earlier cultures. And so the archaeologists are driven in on themselves. Perhaps it is just as well.

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Research Article
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Antiquity , Volume 12 , Issue 48 , December 1938 , pp. 464 - 473
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Copyright © Antiquity Publications Ltd 1938

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References

1 Essays in Aegean Archaeology (Oxford 1927), ‘Some Minoan potter’s wheel discs’, p. 3.Google Scholar

2 Hesperia, vol. VII, no. 3, 1938, p. 457, fig. 19 B.I. and fig. 22.

3 I am informed by Mr D. W. S. Hunt, Fellow of Magdalen College, to whom some of the information about Siphnos is due, that he has seen a caique of 13 tons displacement take on a cargo of Siphnian pots for Chios and Santorin. The same boat on another occasion took pottery to Megara and returned with rezinato wine, and again to Santorin for a similar exchange of cargo. The range of the boat was not great but it had been also to Myconos and once to Salonika.

4 Prof.Dawkins, R.M., Journal of Hellenic Studies, 24 205.Google ScholarThe ancestors of the present Skyriots are here shown to have migrated from Thrace to the island after its depopulation by the Venetian Foscolo who transported the original inhabitants to Corfu in 1645. The new emigrants brought with them a northern mode of embroidery design and certain peculiar pagan festivals which survive today in Thrace.

5 Talbot Rice, D. Byzantine glazedpottery, p. 48.Google Scholar