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THE POTTERY.
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of the Barne shape as that of XXV. 3, &c, but in some cases it ends in a sharp
point. The neck of XXV. 9 is a later development; I have not observed any
certain example of it in the ' matt black ' c\ass.
The animals on Fig. 89, seated on their hindquarters, and placing their
foiepaws on each other's heads, have been already alhuled to (p. 109). It
shöuld be added that their attitnde bears a suggestive resemblance to that
of certain monsters on Egyptian friezes, birds or bats with human arms,
Fio. 90.—Red-Faced Jua witji Design in White1 (l : 3).
seated in a row and holding up their hands (e.g., Maspero, Archäologie
Egyptienne, p. 258, Fig. 235). XVIII. 5 has an appropriate binding pattern
round its basket handle: the fragmentary object between the handle is
probably a bird or fish; there is a bird with a similar tail on one of the
jugs from the shaft-graves at Mycenae (Schuchhardt, Eng. ed. p. 271,
Fig. 278).
7. XIX. 7 is a fragment of a large straight-sided vase, probably with a
spout opposite the handle (cf. XI. 15). The pattern2 is interesting from its
likeness to that puzzling Egyptian type of Hower, with a fanofpetals between
two cnrled-over ' falls,' the so-called lotus-palmette. The coinbination of
various floral motives into fantastic forms is a familiär charactcristtc of
Mycenaean art, particularly conspicuous on the large Cretan vases of the
1 Lustnaus red surface (much injured by
«all, ; cross lines on base. Probably not
Melian.
- Cf. the trees or flowers in Schuchhardt,
Eng. ed. p. 260, Fig. 260.
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of the Barne shape as that of XXV. 3, &c, but in some cases it ends in a sharp
point. The neck of XXV. 9 is a later development; I have not observed any
certain example of it in the ' matt black ' c\ass.
The animals on Fig. 89, seated on their hindquarters, and placing their
foiepaws on each other's heads, have been already alhuled to (p. 109). It
shöuld be added that their attitnde bears a suggestive resemblance to that
of certain monsters on Egyptian friezes, birds or bats with human arms,
Fio. 90.—Red-Faced Jua witji Design in White1 (l : 3).
seated in a row and holding up their hands (e.g., Maspero, Archäologie
Egyptienne, p. 258, Fig. 235). XVIII. 5 has an appropriate binding pattern
round its basket handle: the fragmentary object between the handle is
probably a bird or fish; there is a bird with a similar tail on one of the
jugs from the shaft-graves at Mycenae (Schuchhardt, Eng. ed. p. 271,
Fig. 278).
7. XIX. 7 is a fragment of a large straight-sided vase, probably with a
spout opposite the handle (cf. XI. 15). The pattern2 is interesting from its
likeness to that puzzling Egyptian type of Hower, with a fanofpetals between
two cnrled-over ' falls,' the so-called lotus-palmette. The coinbination of
various floral motives into fantastic forms is a familiär charactcristtc of
Mycenaean art, particularly conspicuous on the large Cretan vases of the
1 Lustnaus red surface (much injured by
«all, ; cross lines on base. Probably not
Melian.
- Cf. the trees or flowers in Schuchhardt,
Eng. ed. p. 260, Fig. 260.