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Pottery and Miscellaneous Artifacts from Fortified Sites in Northern and Western Attica POTTERY AND MISCELLANEOUS ARTIFACTS FROM FORTIFIED SITES IN NORTHERN AND WESTERN ATTICA (PLATES 25-3 1) 1. Hymettos tower 8. Kabasala fort/Panakton 14. Bathychoriatower C 2. Skala Oropou/Oropos 9. Myoupolis/Oinoe 15. Agios Georgios 3. Kotroni/Aphidna 10. Plakoto 16. Panagia saddle 4. Katsimidi 11. Gyphtokastro 17. Kantili towers 5. Beletsi 12. Karoumpalotowers 18. Kerata west peak 6. Phyle fort 13. Zikos' road 19. Boudoron 7. Aigaleos tower T1 HE CHRONOLOGY and function of ancient fortificationsin northern and western Attica have long been a matter of scholarlydebate.1 Among the most importantdating criteria for many of these sites, very few of which have been even summarily excavated,is the scatter of pottery sherds on the surface. Advancesin the chronologyof black and plain wares have made it possible to assign dates to sherds which were undatable a generation ' For a bibliography,see FA (see below), passim, esp. p. 8, note 18. To this should now be added Munn (see below). Works frequently cited are abbreviatedas follows: Agora IV = R. H. Howland,The Athenian Agora, IV, Greek Lamps and Their Survivals, Princeton 1958 Agora V = H. S. Robinson,The Athenian Agora, V, Potteryof the Roman Period:Chronology, Prince- ton 1959 Agora XII = B. A. Sparkesand L. Talcott,The Athenian Agora,XII, Black and Plain Pottery, Princeton 1970 Edmonson = C. N. Edmonson, "The Topography of Northwest Attica,"diss. University of California at Berkeley, 1966 FA = J. Ober,Fortress Attica: Defense of the AthenianLand Frontier,404-322 B.C. (Mnemosyne Suppl. 84), Leiden 1985 FMCA = J. R. McCredie,Hesperia, Suppl.XI, FortifiedMilitary Camps in Attica, Princeton1966 Heimberg = U. Heimberg, Das Kabirenheiligtumbei Theben III, Berlin 1982 "Koroni" = E. Vanderpool, J. R. McCredie, A. Steinberg, "Koroni:A Ptolemaic Camp on the East Coast of Attica,"Hesperia 31, 1962, pp. 26-61 Miller = Stella G. Miller, "Menon'sCistern," Hesperia 43, 1974, pp. 194-245 Munn = M. H. Munn, "Studieson the Territorial Defenses of Fourth-CenturyAthens," diss. Uni- versity of Pennsylvania, 1983 "Phyle" = W. Wrede, "Phyle,"AM 49,1924, pp. 153-224 Thompson = H. A. Thompson, "Two Centuries of Hellenistic Pottery,"Hesperia 3, 1934, pp. 311-480 I could not have undertakento write this cataloguewithout a great deal of expert advice. I would like to express my special thanks to John Camp II, who devoteda good many hours to identifying black and plain American School of Classical Studies at Athens is collaborating with JSTOR to digitize, preserve, and extend access to Hesperia ® www.jstor.org 0~~~~ 0 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~SkalaOropou/Oropos ~(N Thebes -. - -~~ Beletsi | , -' X * * Kotroni/Aphidna Road KaroumpaloTowers- -Zks'- -- Kabasala Fort/Panakton Katsimidi x t_______,; Gyphtokastroo * Myoupolis/Oinoe x -3X \ Panagia Saddle Phyle Fort ~~~ x ~~~~xx @\9 \x * Agios Georgios * Plakoto X K Bathychoria Tower C - Kantili Towers *Aigaleos Tower X ' Kerata West Peak o Hymettos Tower (Z MegaraOMegara *LA D - h ,,/ O . oudoron ,vAtes5' Athens l ( o~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~3 6 9 12 1 FIG.1. Map of northernand western Attica showing locationsof fortifiedsites POTTERY AND MISCELLANEOUS ARTIFACTS FROM ATTICA 199 ago. Although surface pottery is obviouslya less secure chronologicalindicator than pottery found within a stratifiedexcavation context, surface sherds point to periods during which a site was occupied and so constitute a primary resource for investigatorsinterested in the occupationhistory of unexcavatedsites. It is as a contributionto the history and chronology of the fortifiedsites of northwesternAttica that I offer the present catalogueof pottery and miscellaneousartifacts stored in the antiquities collectionsof the AmericanSchool of Clas- sical Studies at Athens (hereafter ASCS) and of the German ArchaeologicalInstitute at Athens (hereafter DAI), along with surface material I have noted during my own field studies. The sites representedin the catalogue are either fortificationsproper (fortresses,small circuits, or military towers), walled settlements (Kotroni/Aphidna, Myoupolis/Oinoe), or settlementslocated close to fortresses(Eleutherai, Agios Georgios). I have not includedma- terial from fortified sites which have been recently excavatedor are in the process of being excavated.2A number of fortifiedsites have not yielded diagnosticsherds; in other cases the few diagnosticsherds known do not contributeanything to our knowledgeof the history of the site (e.g. Aigosthena). These sites are not includedin the present catalogue. Most of the artifacts described are chance surface finds, and all are from the three sources mentioned above. Sherds in the ASCS collectionwere picked up by various mem- bers of the School. In no case is the name of the collectoror an accessiondate indicatedfor a particular sherd, and it is seldom possible to determinea proveniencemore exact than the site as a whole. The sherds, along with other artifactsin the collection,have been carefully catalogued,however, and are labeled individuallyaccording to site of origin.3The artifacts in the DAI sherd collectionwere picked up by the archaeologistand topographerWalther Wrede, mostly during the 1930's and 1940's. Wrede had a wide interest in the Attic coun- tryside; his publications include a general guide to Attica, a study of Attic masonry styles, and the results of his excavationof the Phyle fort.4There is, however, no recordindicating what end Wrede had in mind when he collectedthe sherds, and his collectioncannot be con- sidered any more systematic than the ASCS collection. Wrede's sherds were catalogued, wares, John Oakley, who identified and helped with the descriptionsof the decoratedwares, Judith Binder and Hector Williams for help in dating late Roman lamps, John Slonaker who directed the surveying for figures 3 and 13, and Michele Mayor for setting type for the figures. I am, of course, responsible for any remaining errors in identifications,dates, or comparanda.I am deeply grateful to Richard Roehm, who took most of and developedall the photographsfor the plates and to AdrienneMayor who drew the potteryprofiles and site plans. My thanks to the Directorof the AmericanSchool of Classical Studiesfor permissionto publish material from the School collection and to the Director and staff of the German ArchaeologicalInstitute in Athens for permissionto publish material from the Wrede collectionand for providingfacilities for its study. My work in the ASCS and DAI collectionswas made possible by grants from the Departmentof History and Philosophy and the Office of the Vice-Presidentfor Researchof Montana State University. 2 For example, the round tower near the Dema wall, which was excavated in 1979 (see Munn, passim), and the fortressat Rhamnous, which is being excavatedby B. Petrakos:see the series of reportsin HpaKrLKca, 1979- and B. Petrakos,Rhamnous, A Concise Guide, Athens 1983. 3 The cataloguingof the ASCS antiquities collectionis an ongoing projectbut is mostly complete,thanks to the efforts of Daniel J. Pullen and a number of other scholarsassociated with the School. 4Attika, Athens 1934; AttischeMauern, Athens 1933; "Phyle." 200 JOSIAH OBER labeled, and made available for study in the 1970's.5 The artifacts that I observedon the surfacewere recordedduring field trips undertakenfrom 1978 to 1985.6 The haphazardmanner in which the ASCS and DAI material was collecteddemands that some care be used in analyzing the catalogue as a whole. The precise motives of the various collectorscannot be determined,and we have no indicationof the criteria according to which certain items were picked up and retained or others discarded.It seems probable that many collectorshad no particularselection criteria, and any given site lot may include material collectedby several individuals.Given the interestsof the majorityof the members of the ASCS and of Wrede, we may presume a bias toward glazed potteryover coarsewares and toward ancient over Mediaeval or modernmaterial generally. The resulting collection is therefore neither scientificallyrandom nor purposively non-randomand cannot be ana- lyzed statistically as, for example, can surface pottery collected by modern archaeological surveyors.7On the other hand, the variety of collectorsand collecting periods has resulted, for some sites, in a rich assortmentof artifactsand probablymore than would be turned up by a single sweep by an intensivesurvey. We can neverbe certainthat all occupationperiods are representedby the material from any given site, but the cataloguedoes give a reasonable indicationof at least some of the periodsduring which a site was occupiedand in some cases allows us to suggest when the site was first occupied. I hope that excavations and surveys will eventually be carriedout at the sites listed below. Until that time, the catalogueshould be of use to those interestedin patternsof settlementin northwesternAttica, as well as those interestedin the military organizationof the Athenian borderlands. My own fieldwork was concernedwith the Classical period of occupation;hence the Classical material is most thoroughlydescribed. I have, however,attempted to include in the catalogue all diagnostic sherds from the Geometric through the late Roman periods. For some sites the ASCS and DAI collections include large quantities of non-diagnosticbody sherds and coarse wares; I have not, generally, included these in the catalogue, but the presenceof non-diagnosticpottery in the various collectionsis indicatedfor each site. I have not catalogued artifacts postdating Late Antiquity (6th
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