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C. C. EDGAR
few cases ave both inside and outside ornamented. As a rule the designs are
applied in horizontal friezes {e.g. XV. 7-10). Sometimea the base is sur-
rounded by a rosette pattern {e.g. Fig. 87). XV. 11 is one of a few instances
in which we find the System of vertical division. *
(c) Similar to (b) except that there is no groove round the outside of the
rim. XV. 1-4, 10, 12 are representatives of this type.
(d) The cüps and fragments numbered 11-19 on PI. XVI. are made of
less fine wäre than the preceding groups and have a different System of
ornamentation. They have no foot, being merely rlattened underneath. On
some of them, no doubt the earlier ones, we find the chalky white slijj
characteristic of the geometric pottery of Seck 7, but the majority of them
are of the ordinary later Melian wäre and are covered with a coat of lustreless
red on the inside. The usnal, if not invariable, method is to confine the
design to that half of the vase which is on the right side of the handle and
which in drinking would be turned towards the Company. The designs are
partly spiral and partly floral, the floral motives becoming more common on
the later specimens. Here for the first time we find the palmette, usually
pendant as on XVI. 12. The fan-like arrangement of the leaves is perhaps
derived from the same class of Egyptian Scheines from which the strikmg
pattern on Fig. 96. is certainly copied (e.g. Maspero, Arch. £g., p. 284,
Fig. 264). On XVI. 11 we have a growing plant of a common and
conventional type.
The border round the rim of XVI. 13 is one of the most hackneyed
motives of the early Mycenaean style in Melos.1 It is usually drawn as a
running patfcern, e.g. XVII. 4, and is apt to degenerate into an irregulär scrawl
as on XVII. 14. But it is sometimes drawn as a row of ^—-/v>. shaped figures
close together (e.g. XX. 16) and this is probably the original form of the
border. frequently appears also as an isolated device (e.g. XX. 14) and
a scale pattern with scales of this shape is common on later Mycenaean
pottery. The origin of the figure is uncertain, but the later history of the
border pattern is apparent at a glance; it is evidently a forerunner of the
Aeolic kymation.
The two interesting fragments XVI. 20-21 stand half-way between (b)
and (cl). They are made of the same finely prepared paste as (Ii) and have a
tiny projectingrim ; but they have no foot and the ornamentation is apparently
confined to one side of the vase. The subjects present a remarkable contrast
with the birds and fishes of Sects. 6 and 7.
As is indicated by the thin Hat handle, the general type of which («), (c)
and (d) are slightly different developments, was probably first expressed in
metal. And at least one metal speeimen exists, for a fine silver vase of this
shape was found at Mycenae, ornamented with designs running in horizontal
friezes (Perrot and Chipiez, p. 818, Fig. 381).
5. Still more common than the preceding class is the type of cupof which
1 Cf. a border of eomewhat similar appearanoe on a Mycenaean stele, Sohliemanii, Mycenae,
p. 92.
C. C. EDGAR
few cases ave both inside and outside ornamented. As a rule the designs are
applied in horizontal friezes {e.g. XV. 7-10). Sometimea the base is sur-
rounded by a rosette pattern {e.g. Fig. 87). XV. 11 is one of a few instances
in which we find the System of vertical division. *
(c) Similar to (b) except that there is no groove round the outside of the
rim. XV. 1-4, 10, 12 are representatives of this type.
(d) The cüps and fragments numbered 11-19 on PI. XVI. are made of
less fine wäre than the preceding groups and have a different System of
ornamentation. They have no foot, being merely rlattened underneath. On
some of them, no doubt the earlier ones, we find the chalky white slijj
characteristic of the geometric pottery of Seck 7, but the majority of them
are of the ordinary later Melian wäre and are covered with a coat of lustreless
red on the inside. The usnal, if not invariable, method is to confine the
design to that half of the vase which is on the right side of the handle and
which in drinking would be turned towards the Company. The designs are
partly spiral and partly floral, the floral motives becoming more common on
the later specimens. Here for the first time we find the palmette, usually
pendant as on XVI. 12. The fan-like arrangement of the leaves is perhaps
derived from the same class of Egyptian Scheines from which the strikmg
pattern on Fig. 96. is certainly copied (e.g. Maspero, Arch. £g., p. 284,
Fig. 264). On XVI. 11 we have a growing plant of a common and
conventional type.
The border round the rim of XVI. 13 is one of the most hackneyed
motives of the early Mycenaean style in Melos.1 It is usually drawn as a
running patfcern, e.g. XVII. 4, and is apt to degenerate into an irregulär scrawl
as on XVII. 14. But it is sometimes drawn as a row of ^—-/v>. shaped figures
close together (e.g. XX. 16) and this is probably the original form of the
border. frequently appears also as an isolated device (e.g. XX. 14) and
a scale pattern with scales of this shape is common on later Mycenaean
pottery. The origin of the figure is uncertain, but the later history of the
border pattern is apparent at a glance; it is evidently a forerunner of the
Aeolic kymation.
The two interesting fragments XVI. 20-21 stand half-way between (b)
and (cl). They are made of the same finely prepared paste as (Ii) and have a
tiny projectingrim ; but they have no foot and the ornamentation is apparently
confined to one side of the vase. The subjects present a remarkable contrast
with the birds and fishes of Sects. 6 and 7.
As is indicated by the thin Hat handle, the general type of which («), (c)
and (d) are slightly different developments, was probably first expressed in
metal. And at least one metal speeimen exists, for a fine silver vase of this
shape was found at Mycenae, ornamented with designs running in horizontal
friezes (Perrot and Chipiez, p. 818, Fig. 381).
5. Still more common than the preceding class is the type of cupof which
1 Cf. a border of eomewhat similar appearanoe on a Mycenaean stele, Sohliemanii, Mycenae,
p. 92.