“ἐς πόντον ἱχθυόεντα”: Marine Creatures in Aegean and Cypriot Pictorial Pottery at the End of the Late Bronze Age

This paper examines iconography of marine creatures on Late Bronze Age pictorial pottery from the Aegean and Cyprus. The figurative motifs of Aegean and Cypriot pictorial pottery at the end of the Late Bronze Age derive mainly from the animal kingdom and include marine creatures such as fish, octopuses and seahorses. Fish represent one of the most common themes of Aegean Late Helladic IIIC pottery and Cypriot Pictorial White Painted Wheelmade III ware. Mycenaean pictorial motifs and local practices contributed to the establishment of a fish iconography on Cyprus.