Well Built Mycenae, Fascicule 27: Ground Stone

44 pp, b/w figures, in English.

This fascicule describes the ground stone objects from the 1959-69 excavations at Mycenae. Don Evely describes the vases (36 complete and fragmentary pieces including 'Minoan' birds' nest bowls and Mycenaean piriform jars, fragments of rhyta and legged mortars) and other objects (inlays in valuable stones such as lapis lazuli and lapis lacedaemonius, mushroom shaped pommels, a steatite jewellery mould and other items). Curtis Runnels discusses sixteen domestic millstones. Objects are discussed and illustrated in the text, with a full catalogue provided on fiche.