The techniques necessary for making Mycenaean pottery - the potter's wheel, slip-decoration and kiln firing at a relatively high temperature - were almost unknown in Macedonia before its introduction. They were rapidly learnt, however, and manufacture of Mycenaean pottery became regular, using typical shapes and the simpler patterns. The quality is often as good as that made further south. It is most common at coastal sites, while inland the vast majority of pottery in use continued the local hand made traditions.

PIRIFORM JAR: LH IIIB: c 1250 BC

LOCAL PRODUCTION OF MYCENAEAN POTTERY

In the 12th century production of Mycenaean pottery somewhere near Assiros had become regular. The local clays require a fast-firing technique which leaves a typical grey core. Shapes manufactured include cups and bowls, large basins and jugs, as well as occasional examples of local types - the cut away neck jug or double vessel for example.

See also:-

Excavations at Assiros Toumba 1975-1980, Annual of the British School at Athens, 76, 1980, 229-260

Mycenaean Trade and Contact in Northern Greece in, ed Carol Zerner et al, Wace and Blegen: Pottery as Evidence for Trade and Contact, 117-141, Gieben 1994

 The Prehistoric Macedonian

Symposium

LOCALLY MADE MYCENAEAN CUP.

 LH IIIC: c 1150 BC

SHERDS FROM A LOCAL MYCENAEAN

CUP AND DEEP BOWL. LH IIIC: c 1150 BC

SHERD FROM A KRATER WITH ANTITHETIC SPIRAL DECORATION. LH IIIC: c 1150 BC