Amber in the Mycenaean world
Anthony Harding & Helen Hughes-Brock
Annu Brit Sch Athens, 69, 1974, 145-72, pls, figs, refs.
Corpus of Mycenaean amber finds and those in adjacent areas, and discussion of their significance (assuming the validity of Beck's attribution of most of them to a Baltic source). The first 'consignment' of nearly 1600 pieces (? from Britain) occurs in a very few rich graves concentrated in the Argolid and Pylos in Late Helladic I-II. Later on, far fewer pieces are far more widely distributed (some possibly redistributed from the first 'consignment' of c 1500 BC, the second 'consignment' not necessarily arriving until c 1200). Much of the amber probably came in as finished products, e.g. beads and the spacer-plates from ?Britain; but there are no V-bored beads, and the lack of amber in Yugoslavia needs explanation especially as the head of the Adriatic was clearly involved in the distribution. C W Beck adds a note on provenances.
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