AN OVERVIEW TO THE GEOMETRIC MOTIF REPERTOIRE OF ANATOLIAN MYCENAEAN POTTERY

It is understood that Anatolian people had close contact with the contemporary cultures of Mainland Greece and the Islands due to the trade relations in the second part of second millenium BC. One of the important indicators in determining these links are the local and imported Mycenaean pottery found during the excavations mainly held in Western Anatolia. These decorative geometric motifs such as wavy lines, isolated semicircles, linked semicircles, chequers, zigzags, diaper net, triangles, panelled patterns commonly took place on the vessels in the process of a wide range of time.