Penelope Mountjoy
Penelope Anne Mountjoy was a British archaeologist who specialised in Mycenaean ceramics. Mountjoy wrote several books and received numerous awards and fellowships to continue her research on Greek pottery.
Early life and education
Mountjoy was born in Bath, Somerset, England in 1946. She received a Bachelor of Arts in classics from the University of Bristol and a Master of Philosophy from the University of London, before returning to Bristol for her Ph.D. She was a member of the British School at Athens.Career and honours
Mountjoy studied Mycenaean pottery of several periods, publishing multiple books on the subject. She was additionally a specialist in Minoan pottery. She also taught archaeological illustration at College Year in Athens, a programme for visiting US students. She was a recipient of a Seymour Gitin Distinguished Professor Fellowship from the Albright Institute of Archaeological Research in 2014 to study Mycenaean decorated pottery in Cyprus and the South Levant. She also obtained multiple Alexander von Humboldt Fellowships, a Glassman Holland Fellowship, and was elected as a Corresponding Member of the German Archaeological Institute. On 5 May 1988, she was also elected as a Fellow of the [Society of Antiquaries of London].Death
Mountjoy died in Oxford on 14 June 2025, at the age of 78.Selected books
- 1983. Orchomenos V: Mycenaean pottery from Orchomenos, Eutresis and other Boeotian sites.
- 1985. The Archaeology of cult: the sanctuary at Phylakopi. London, British school of archaeology at Athens.
- 1986. Mycenaean Decorated Pottery: A Guide to Identification. Gothenburg.
- 1993. Mycenaean Pottery: An Introduction. Oxford University Press.
- 1999. Regional Mycenaean decorated pottery. Berlin, Deutsches Archäologisches Institut.
- 2008. The Mycenaean and the Minoan Pottery: the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University Collections. Weisbaden.
- 2003. Knossos the south house. The British School at Athens.
- 2017. Troy 9: Troy VI Middle, VI Late and VII. The Mycenaean Pottery. Habelt.
- 2018. Decorated Pottery in Cyprus and Philistia in the 12th Century BC: Cypriot IIIC and Philistine IIIC, Vols. I&II. Austrian Academy of Sciences.
Selected articles
- Mountjoy, Penelope A., et al. "The Sea Peoples: A View from the Pottery." in "Sea Peoples" Up-to-Date: New Research on Transformation in the Eastern Mediterranean in 13th-11th Centuries BCE, 1st ed., Austrian Academy of Sciences Press, pp. 355–78