Description: Excavations on the Koukounaries Hill, Paros, Greece from 1976-1992 revealed a 12th century B.C.E. Mycenaean building, an Iron Age settlement, and an Archaic sanctuary. This volume presents the pottery from five areas inside the building, as well as the pottery from a limited reoccupation after the building's destruction and abandonment.
Brief description:
Robert B. Koehl, Emeritus Professor of Archaeology and former Chair of the Department of Classical and Oriental Studies, Hunter College, City University of New York, and director of the New York Aegean Bronze Age Colloquium from 1999-2018, received his BA in Classics from Pomona College in 1974 and his PhD in Classical Archaeology from the University of Pennsylvania in 1982. A specialist in Minoan and Mycenaean culture, Koehl has participated on excavations in Israel at Tell Gezer, and in Greece, at the Koukounaries Hill on Paros, the Mycenaean citadel at Gla, and on Crete at Kommos and Pseira. Since 2000, he has been the staff specialist in Aegean culture for the excavations at Tell Atchana (ancient Alalakh), Turkey. The author of Sarepta III. The Imported Bronze and Iron Age Wares from Area II, X (1985) and Aegean Bronze Age Rhyta (2006), and the editor of Amilla: The Quest for Excellence (2013), and Studies in Aegean Art and Culture (2016), Koehl has also written extensively on Aegean art and iconography, Minoan 'rites of passage', Aegean and Near Eastern zoomorphic vessels, and Minoan and Mycenaean interconnections with the Levant.
Review Quotes:
'This publication represents an important contribution to the study of the post-palatial period in the Cycladic islands and provides deeper insight into drinking customs, consumption practices and contacts between different communities in SH IIIC. The ceramic analysis is detailed, well-founded and clearly presented. The catalogue contains a very large part of the excavated material, and each catalogued vessel is documented both graphically and photographically, providing an optimal overview of the ceramic ensemble. The main text is preceded by colour photographs of important selected vessels, which clearly convey the quality of the vessel surfaces and the varnish. The significance of the work is further underlined by the fact that settlement material from the post-palatial period is rare in the Cycladic islands.' [translated] - Eleftheria Kardamaki (2025): Gnomon Bd. 97