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Mycenaean feasting on Tsoungiza at Ancient Nemea

Hesperia, Spring, 2004 by Mary K. Dabney, Paul Halstead, Patrick Thomas

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(1.) Wright et al. 1990, p. 581, fig. 1. The Nemea Valley Archaeological Project was sponsored by Bryn Mawr College under the auspices of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens and directed by James C. Wright. Funding was provided by the National Endowment for the Humanities, the National Geographic Society, the Institute for Aegean Prehistory, and private donors. The final publication of the Late Helladic III settlement by Mary K. Dabney, with studies of ceramics by Patrick Thomas, faunal remains by Paul Halstead, botanical remains by Julie M. Hansen, ground stone tools by Kathleen Krattenmaker, and chipped stone tools by Anna Karabatsolis, is in preparation.

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We wish to thank Brian Hayden, Jeremy B. Rutter, and James C. Wright for their comments and suggestions on this article.

(2.) Cherry, Davis, and Mantzourani 2000, http://classics.uc.edu/NVAP/ MycNVAP.html.

(3.) Thomas 1992, pp. 25-267; Dabney 1997, pp. 469-470.

(4.) The deposit in EU 9 contains stratigraphic units (SU) 1536, 1540, 1554-1559, 1581-1584, 1588, and 1589 (for the location of EU 9, see Fig. 1). Although some overlap with LH IIIA1 is possible, the material most convincingly dates to LH IIIA2 (early).

(5.) Brain 1981, pp. 21-23.

(6.) E.g., Maltby 1985, p. 55.

(7.) See references in Isaakidou et al. 2002.

(8.) Munson and Garniewicz 2003.

(9.) P. Halstead, unpublished interviews in Macedonia, Epirus, the Peloponnese, the Cyclades, and Crete.

(10.) Cf. Isaakidou et al. 2002.

(11.) For example, see the discussion concerning Mayan feasting in LeCount 2001, esp. pp. 946-948; see also Blitz 1993 for a study of Mississippian feasting.

(12.) Stocker and Davis, this volume.

(13.) See Hamilakis 1998, pp. 119-126, for a review of relevant evidence.

(14.) Tzedakis and Martlew (1999, pp. 84, 103, 108, 110) have analyzed the organic residue in vessels from Minoan Crete, showing that stews of vegetables, meat, and olive oil were common; similar evidence specifically relating to LH III Thebes, Mycenae, and Midea is also presented (pp. 115-135).

(15.) Tournavitou 1995, p. 90, fig. 25:4.

(16.) Palace of Nestor I, pp. 129-132.

(17.) Tzedakis and Martlew 1999, p. 133; the nature of the fat could not, however, be determined. Another possible candidate for a serving vessel is the stemmed bowl (FS 304). This is a shape that first appears in a one-handled form in LH IIIA1 and becomes common in a two-handled form in LH IIIA2.

(18.) Blitz (1993) notes in a study of Mississippian feasting that although vessel types from village/nonfeasting contexts were not significantly different from those in presumed feasting contexts associated with the structures on the mounds, pots in use in the latter contexts tended to be larger. Shared consumption would help to reinforce a sense of community.

(19.) For the SABs, see Palace of Nestor I, p. 356; the largest has a rim diameter of 22.5 cm, height of 8 cm, and measured capacity of 1.4 l. Blegen and Rawson (Palace of Nestor I, p. 371) also report only six "very large" (type 29h) and six "giant" (type 29i) kylikes from rooms 19 and 20, in contrast to nearly 3,000 other kylikes from the site.

Mycenaean feasting on Tsoungiza at Ancient Nemea

Hesperia, Spring, 2004 by Mary K. Dabney, Paul Halstead, Patrick Thomas

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