EARLY GREEK VASES IN CYPRUS: EUBOEAN AND ATTIC

Summary. The aim of the present project is to put to the test by using chemical analysis the origin of early Greek vases imported to Cyprus. In the present case samples were taken from vases found in the cemetery at Amathus published by Prof. J. N. Coldstream. The scientific results coincide with his attributions and confirm the suggestion that there was a revival of communication between the Aegean and Cyprus from the end of the tenth century, and that Euboean vases were the earliest imports to have reached the island and outnumbered other imports.     

PROTOGEOMETRIC SKYROS AND EUBOEA

Summary. Archaeological evidence indicates that during the Protogeometric period Skyros and Euboea shared several features. The striking similarity, both in style and fabric, between some of the vases found on Skyros and those from Lefkandi in Euboea, made us suspect that some of the Skyrian vases might actually have been imported from Lefkandi. Thanks to Mrs. R. Andreadis, whose private Collection includes Protogeometric vases found on Skyros and who allowed us to take samples from thirteen of them, this assumption was tested. The Research Laboratory of Archaeology and the History of Art in Oxford agreed to analyse them together with samples from the clay-beds on Skyros for comparison with the existing Lefkandi data. Assessment of the results supports a Euboean source for most of the vases analysed and strengthesn the link between the two areas, in which Euboea seems to be the supplier of most of the pottery found on Skyros in the Protogeometric period.