Abstract
Studies of Greek pottery, whether artistic, historical or technical, have dealt almost entirely with the surfaces and shapes of pots, and the finer wares of the Aegean have been assigned to their places of origin on artistic and historical criteria with little or no dependence on scientific experiment. Such technical work as has appeared since the last world war has not, for the most part, concerned itself with the question of provenance, but rather with the reproduction of Attic black and red glazes and the use of added color (I, 2, 3, 4). The use of manganese as a coloring agent, investigated in a further paper (5), covers however a more extensive geographical area and a longer time. The question naturally arises whether significant information may be obtained by a mineralogical examination of the fabric itself.
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