Minyan ware: Difference between revisions

Grey Minyan ware is sometimes referred to as Trojan ware.

The beginning of the Middle Helladic period is marked by the immigration of the Minyans. According to Emily Vermeule, this was the first wave of true Hellenes in Greece. Gray "Minyan ware" is an archaeologist's term for a particular style of Aegean pottery associated with the Middle Helladic period (MH, ca. 2100-1550 BC). It is assumed that the Mycenaean Greeks reached Crete as early as 1450 BCE, and that Greek presence on the mainland dates to 1600 at the latest (shaft graves). "Minyan pottery" reaches Greece from Anatolia, already from the EH III (2300-2100 BC) period, but other aspects of the "Minyan" period appear to arrive from north Greece and the Balkans (tumulus graves, perforated stone axes), and it is unknown whether Proto-Greeks were present from as early as EH III, and thus bearers of the "Minyan" culture, or if they arrived as late as 1600, displacing Minyan/MH culture. It has been found at sites in Cyprus, Syria, Palestine, and Tel Miqne-Ekron.

• Tjeker
• Pre-Greek substrate

• Grey Minyan Ware pictures

• Pottery of Troy VI
• Etruscan Phrases
• The Archaeology of Hissarlik
• Bryn Mawr Classical Review
• Grey Minyan ware or Trojan ware