Chapter Three: Preliminary Report on the Late Bronze Age Pottery from Ancient Eleon

Abstract

This contribution presents an overview of the Late Bronze Age pottery discovered in the excavations at ancient Eleon from 2011 to 2015. Although Early Mycenaean and Palatial period deposits have been recovered from the settlement, the majority of the pottery can be assigned to the Postpalatial or LH IIIC period. After presenting the deposits stratigraphically and contextually by area, we collate the diagnostic features of five subphases spanning LH IIIB2 Late to LH IIIC Middle and discuss their local significance.