Zygouries style

Zygouries-style kylix from the so-called pottery in Zygouries (SH III B, mid-13th century BC)

The Zygouries style is a Mycenaean style of ceramic . The style was named after the archaeological site of Zygouries , as the archaeologist Carl Blegen found more than 70 of these vessels in the so-called pottery here between 1921 and 1922.

Zygouries-style vessels are painted kylikes . These drinking vessels made of light clay have a slim, high base and two handles. They have a balanced, monochrome, mostly red or brown to black painting on only one side of the vessel. Popular motifs were elongated murex shells , degenerate octopuses , so-called eye trees and slim, floral-looking patterns. The Zygouries style appeared at the beginning of SH III B1 around 1300 BC. And existed for about 40 years. After that, kylikes of the same shape were used, but they remained unpainted. For this reason, the Zygouries style is also important for dating and a hallmark of the early phase of SH III B.

literature

• Carl William Blegen: Zygouries; a prehistoric settlement in the valley of Cleonae , Cambridge 1928 ( online )
• Fritz Schachermeyr : The Mycenaean time and the manners of Thera , Vienna 1976, pp. 249–267

Web links

Commons : Zygouries style  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Eric H. Cline : The Oxford Handbook of the Bronze Age Aegean , Oxford 2010, p. 419