LHIII pottery from Elis: local peculiarities and “foreign” connections.

Abstract

Elis is a, more or less, neglected area, when a scholar thinks about Mycenaean Greece. That has to do, primarily, with the fact that acted as a “periphery” of the Mycenaean palatial system, having no trace of a centralized rulership left in the archaeological data. But it is due, also, to the limited production of papers, concerning the human presence in the area at Mycenaean times. This paper, based on the material the authors dealt with, aims to put Mycenaean Elis on the map when someone wants to see if there was pottery production and exchange, during LHIII period, and what were their main characteristics.