Mycenaean pitcher from Skyros , approx. XI century BC e. Museum of Cycladic Art . Athens
Sub-Mykene ceramics - a style characteristic of ancient Greek ceramics immediately after the invasion of the Dorians and up to the emergence of the proto-geometric style , that is, for the XII century. BC e.
Submicenian ceramics is characterized by the loss of almost all the achievements of the vase painting of previous Mycenaean ceramics . Ceramics become primitive - either completely unpainted, or painted in one solid color (usually black), or decorated with several plain lines.
The characteristic motifs of the Sub-Mykene vase painting, which did not exist in Greece for long, were borrowed by Iberians and used in local ceramics for the next several centuries.
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- Mycenaean pictorial art and pottery
- Florian Ruppenstein, Kerameikos. Ergebnisse der Ausgrabungen, Bd. Xviii. Die submykenische Nekropole: Neufunde und Neubewertung. München: Hirmer Verlag, 2007. Pp. xi, 305; figs. 18, pls. 48, fold-out plan 1. ISBN 978-3-7774-3525-1. Reviewed by John K. Papadopoulos, University of California, Los Angeles