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Panhellenes at Methone: Graphê in Late Geometric and Protoarchaic Methone, Macedonia (CA 700 Bce)

Panhellenes at Methone: Graphê in Late Geometric and Protoarchaic Methone, Macedonia (CA 700 Bce)

Hardcover

Series: Trends in Classics - Supplementary Volumes, Book 44

Literary Criticism

ISBN10: 3110501279
ISBN13: 9783110501278
Publisher: De Gruyter
Published: Apr 10 2017
Pages: 387
Weight: 2.64
Height: 1.00 Width: 6.30 Depth: 9.20
Language: English

This volume discusses the multidimensional aspects of the unique, and so far unprecedented for Macedonia, 191 sherds from Methone in Pieria, dated to ca 700 BCE, which bear inscriptions, graffiti, and (trade)marks inscribed, incised, scratched and rarely painted.

The 191 vessels were unearthed during excavations in ancient Methone in Pieria, the oldest colony of Greeks from Eretria in the north according to tradition. The Methone find is unique for two reasons. First, most of the pottery dates between 730 and 700 BCE, a period from which very few examples of Greek writing survives. And second, inscribed ceramics, scratched or painted, are extremely rare in Macedonia.

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