Fieldwork at Ancient Eleon in Boeotia, 2011–2018

Burke, Brendan; Burns, Bryan; Charami, Alexandra; Damme, Trevor Van; Herrmann, Nicholas P.; Lis, Bartłomiej

doi:10.3764/aja.124.3.0441

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“…Variations are observed in the size of tiles and their overall quality, which we attribute to different needs (including repairs) or different batches of tiles (as they were produced, including reused tiles), but also (as other scholars have noted: e.g. Küpper 1996, 106–9, 134–6, figs 122, 210–16; Burke et al 2020, 463) to multiple makers at work. These makers may well have worked at a family-base level, as suggested by the ethnographic studies, or in more organised workshops (if this is how the mark on the Stavris tile mentioned above should be understood).…”

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“…The Northwest Complex is said to have featured tiled pitched roofs. One near-complete example of a pan tile is 53.5 × 44.5 cm (Burke et al 2020, 463). The material is under study by Dr Kyle Jazwa (Duke University), and its publication is greatly anticipated, not least as it can complement the present study on Mycenaean tiles’ form, construction and contexts of use and reuse.…”

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“…Some scant tile fragments are also said to come from the LH IIIC ‘floors’ identified in the course of this excavation, some of which date to LH IIIC middle (Andrikou 2006, 49–51 and 54). For Mycenaean tiles in a LH IIIC context, see also Walberg 2007, 169 (Midea, Shrine Area) and Burke et al 2013; 2020 (Eleon).…”

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“… 109 The important material from Eleon (Burke et al 2013; 2020) will, however, undoubtedly also shed additional light on the morphology, construction and use of Mycenaean tiles in Boeotia, as will the new excavations at Gla (, accessed August 2020).…”

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“… 132 The theory that tiles appear in low quantities in Mycenaean contexts because they might have been scavenged in later times (e.g. Winter 1993, 11, among others) should always be kept in mind, not least as the examples from Eleon in LH IIIC appear to suggest (Burke et al 2013; 2020). …”

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Atop the Kadmeia: Mycenaean Roof Tiles From Thebes in Context

Aravantinos¹,

Fappas²,

Galanakis

2020

Annu. Br. Sch. Athens

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Questions were raised in the past regarding the use of Mycenaean tiles as ‘roof tiles’ on the basis of the small numbers of them recovered in excavations and their overall scarcity in Mycenaean domestic contexts. The investigation of the Theodorou plot in 2008 in the southern part of the Kadmeia hill at Thebes yielded the single and, so far, largest known assemblage per square metre of Mycenaean tiles from a well-documented excavation. This material allows, for the first time convincingly, to identify the existence of a Mycenaean tiled roof. This paper presents the results of our work on the Theodorou tiles, placing emphasis on their construction, form and modes of production, offering the most systematic study of Mycenaean tiles to date. It also revisits contexts of discovery of similar material from excavations across Thebes. Popular as tiles might have been in Boeotia, and despite their spatially widespread attestation, their use in Aegean Late Bronze Age architecture appears, on the whole, irregular with central Greece and the north-east Peloponnese being the regions with the most sites known to have yielded such objects. Mycenaean roof tiles date mostly from the mid- and late fourteenth century bc to the twelfth century bc. A study of their construction, form, production and contexts suggests that their role, apart from adding extra insulation, might have been one of signposting certain buildings in the landscape. We also present the idea that Mycenaean tile-making was guided by a particular conventional knowledge which was largely influenced by ceramic-related technologies (pottery- and drain-making). While production of roof tiles might have been palace-instigated to begin with, it does not appear to have been strictly controlled. This approach to Mycenaean tile-making may also help explain their uneven (in terms of intensity of use) yet widespread distribution.

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