Introduction

1The excavation of the Gouves Potters’ Quarter and workshop installations produced a massive amount of LM IIIB pottery, both in the houses and in the pottery workshops and kilns, providing a wealth of information on the dating and function of the structures and the production of certain special types of vase. This contribution focuses on the finds from Kiln I and Room C3. XVII, and in particular on some specific ‘tools’ and techniques for making and decorating LM IIIA2-B vases, such as kylikes, stirrup jars and conical rhyta, all typical of the Gouves pottery workshops. Evidence for the duration of operation of the Potters’ Quarter and workshops, their relationship with other Cretan and Mainland centres, and their final destruction and abandonment at the end of LM IIIB is also be provided.

1. The buildings and workshops

2The discovery of a Cypro-Aegean cylinder seal and a large amount of surface pottery during the first examination of the E. Logiadis plot in the K