Souvlaki
In Mycenaean Greece, "souvlaki trays" were found in Gla, Mycenae, and Pylos. The "souvlaki trays", or portable grills, used by the Mycenaean Greeks were rectangular ceramic pans that sat below skewers of meat. It is unclear whether these trays were put directly over a fire or if the pans held hot coals like a portable barbecue pit. Spit supports used for cooking food appear to "continue in use into the Early Iron Age at Nichoria." In Greek literature, the Iliad of Homer mentions pieces of meat cooked on spits called obelos (ὀβελός). Obelos is also mentioned in the works of Aristophanes, Xenophon, Aristotle, and others. In Classical Greece, a small spit or skewer was called an obeliskos (). Aristophanes mentions such small skewers being used to cook birds.