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Judit Lebegyev: A Stag from Mycenae and the Greek prehistoric Sherd collection of the Hungarian National Museum
72 J UDIT LEBEGYEV Late Neolithic and the Late Helladic II 1С period and derive from sites in the northeastern part of the Peloponnese, mostly where the British School and the American School conducted excavations. 3 The exchange of sherd materials between countries was a customary tradition before the Second World War. There was a special demand on the part of Museums and Universities to acquire sherds from Greece for study purposes. For example the Danish National Museum also got sherds from the British School at Athens from its excavations at Phylakopi and from the Greek excavations at Chalandriani, Syros and from Thessaly (Neolithic material from Dimini and Sesklo) in exchange for Danish antiquities. 4 Another Hungarian Research Institute, the Faculty of Archaeology of the Eötvös Loránd University Budapest received a box of Minoan sherds for study purposes from Spyridon Marinatos, Director of the Museum of Herakleion in 1932 . THE GEOGRAPHICAL SPECTRUM OF THE MATERIAL On the back of most of the sherds their find place is written with ink. Apart from live sherds (two of EH II, one of MH III-LH I and two of LH III date) which are marked as being found in the Corinthia, the following sites are represented in the material: Korakou: eight sherds (three of EH II, one of EH III, three of LH IIIB and one of LH IIIC Early date); Gonia: five sherds (two of LN, two of MH III and one of LH III В date); J Zygouries: one EH II fragment; 1' Corinth, Temple Hill: a single LN sherd; 7 Aietopetra: four sherds (two of EH II, one of MH I-II, and two of MH III date). 8 From the Argolid, Lerna (Myloi): two sherds of MH III date; 9 Mycenae: eight sherds of LH I to LH IIIB date, 1 0 - one of them, a LH IIA sherd was found in 3 The sherd material in its entity bears the inventory number: 29 (1936). 4 Chr. Blinkenberg - K. Friis Johansen, CVA 1.1 Danemark, Copenhague: Musée Nationale (Collection des Antiquités Classiques). 5 In Gonia, according to the excavation notebooks, the Neolithic material seems to have been restricted to the eastern part of the site, LAMBROPOULOU 1991, 70; M H occupation was attested all over the site, but was especially well represented in the central part, Lambropoulou 1991, 107—108. Hie Late Helladic settlement, as indicated by the pottery was occupied until the middle to late LH IIIB period, Ru ITER1974, 535. 6 The EH II settlement area of Zygouries is extended to the Acropolis and to the plain around it, ALRAMSTERN 2004, 581. 7 On the history of excavations on the Temple Hill see Robinson 1976, 203-209, 211; LAVEZZI 1996, 226227. On excavations in Corinth containing Neolithic material see LAVEZZI 2003, 63-71, PHELPS 2004, 8-11. 8 The site was mentioned by C. Biegen as a prehistoric habitation with surface finds of Early to Late Helladic date. В LEGEN 1920, 3-4. A larger group of sherds collected on the site is preserved in the ASCSA Sherd Collection. On the types of MH material represented in this collection see Lambropoulou 1991, 145. Archaeological investigations were first made on the site in 1978 by E. Chatzipouliou-Kalliri on behalf of the 4th Ephorate of Prehistoric and Classical Antiquities. The excavations brought to light material dating from the EH II. EH III and early MH periods, presenting a continuous habitation sequence from the EH II until the early MH period, CHATZIPOULIOU-KALLIRI 1978, 325-336. For a short description of the site with special reference to the Early Helladic remains see most recently ALRAMSTERN 2004, 573. 9 Both sherds have on their back the site designation: 'Myloi (Arg)' (shortened for Argolid). Before the systematic archaeological exploration and excavation began on the site under the direction of J. L. Caskey (exploration in 1949 followed by several excavation campaigns from 1952), only unsystematic surface collection took place, CASKEY Í954, 3-4. The sherds may come from the examination of the site by A. J. B. Wace, C. Biegen and R. W. Hutchinson made in the spring of 1922, refered in the Annual Meeting of Subscribers (1921-1922), BSA 25 (1921-1923)438. 1 0 On three sherds, a LH II bowl, an Ephyraean goblet and the LH IIIB pictorial fragment the following three letters appear written with graphite after the ink-written site designation of Mycenae: AMW', which I was not able to positively identify with any archaeological feature or personal name connected to the site.
