Abstract
Abstract No extant Attic inscriptions are earlier than the third quarter of the eighth century BC; nor am I aware of potters’ marks or other signs on Attic Protogeometric or Early Geometric pottery, with the exception of an upright painted cross under one handle of a Protogeometric amphora from the Athenian Agora. In view of the large quantity of Attic pottery from these periods, this fact supports the notion that Greece was illiterate in the first quarter of the first millennium BC, especially since potters’ marks are frequent in the Mycenaean period and reappear after the middle of the eighth century.
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