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THE POTTERY.
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ment to the spiral fiieze, and sonietimes the spirals themselves are fringed by
a bordier of them. Rows of leaves, as on XXVI. G and wavy lines, as on XXVI.
5, are also favourite designs. Tlie latter is of couvse a rapid rendering, done
on the wheel, of the earlier zigzag, and sonietimes we find the wavy line
bordered by black dots in the same way as its prototype (e.g. XXV. 5).
The fragments 14—18, 21—24, 26, 27 on PI. XXVI. form a group by them-
selves. They are of thin, somewhat glossy wäre. Wriggly lines, debased
or curvilinear swastikas, and a plentiful use of small dots are some of the
main features of their decoration. Designs of similar style occur also on
fragments of larger wäre (e.g. XXIX. 9). The small studs on XXVI. 21 are
further veminiscences of nietal work.
5. The cnps on PI. XXV. (8,10,12) are modelled on a metal type of which
many specimens were found in the shaft-tombs at Mycenae (e.g. Schnell, p.
230).1 We found a good many nnpainted cnps of this shape made of black-
ened wäre, probably in Imitation of metal (e.g. XXXVI. 4). Besides the linear
patterns exemplified on the vases reproduced, we find zones of leaves like
those on XXVI. G and one or two fragments were decorated with rows of ivy-
leaves like XXIX. 2. The beautiful speeimen XXV. 12 belongs to the
earlier style, the pattern being painted almost entirely in matt black.
(i. Cups without handles, varying in size and shape from the small
ordinary kind represented by XXXVI. 3 to the large kalathos-like type of
which XXVII. 11 isan advancerl speei-
men, were extremely common bat very
scklom had any decoration. Fig. 103
is the prettiest example of the or-
dinary kind, while Figs. 104, 105 are
noticeable as baving a design on the
inside like certain Kamürcs cups from
Eastern Crete. XXV. 11 has a flat i im
and has probably had little handles like
those of XXXVI. IG. The flat rim is
very common on the nnpainted cnps (r.g. yll{, 103.—Cüp with Rosette Patterh
XXXVI. !), 13), and the handles may in Red an» Black (2 :3).
possibly be derived from handles in
the form of animals' heads.2 The pattern on XXVII. 11, which is also
characteristic of Cretan pottery, sonietimes occurs in the form of XXIX. 5,
the irregulär thickness of the vertical lines being apparently intentional.
7. XXVII. 10 like Fig. 103 is a speeimen of a type that is almost always
without decoration. It is merely a small flat saucer. Two nnpainted vases
of similar form are shown on PI. XXXVI. 1—2. XXVII. 10 has a flat trefoil
protection on eacb side of the rim by way of handles : a better preserved
example on a fragment of piain wäre is shaped thus /^^~\ .
1 With the ornamentation of this gold eup
oompare the pattern on a fragment of Phyla-
kopi wäre, XXVIII. Ii.
- For an early Egyptian example see Petrie,
Kahun, Ourob and Hawara, PI. viii, 3.
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ment to the spiral fiieze, and sonietimes the spirals themselves are fringed by
a bordier of them. Rows of leaves, as on XXVI. G and wavy lines, as on XXVI.
5, are also favourite designs. Tlie latter is of couvse a rapid rendering, done
on the wheel, of the earlier zigzag, and sonietimes we find the wavy line
bordered by black dots in the same way as its prototype (e.g. XXV. 5).
The fragments 14—18, 21—24, 26, 27 on PI. XXVI. form a group by them-
selves. They are of thin, somewhat glossy wäre. Wriggly lines, debased
or curvilinear swastikas, and a plentiful use of small dots are some of the
main features of their decoration. Designs of similar style occur also on
fragments of larger wäre (e.g. XXIX. 9). The small studs on XXVI. 21 are
further veminiscences of nietal work.
5. The cnps on PI. XXV. (8,10,12) are modelled on a metal type of which
many specimens were found in the shaft-tombs at Mycenae (e.g. Schnell, p.
230).1 We found a good many nnpainted cnps of this shape made of black-
ened wäre, probably in Imitation of metal (e.g. XXXVI. 4). Besides the linear
patterns exemplified on the vases reproduced, we find zones of leaves like
those on XXVI. G and one or two fragments were decorated with rows of ivy-
leaves like XXIX. 2. The beautiful speeimen XXV. 12 belongs to the
earlier style, the pattern being painted almost entirely in matt black.
(i. Cups without handles, varying in size and shape from the small
ordinary kind represented by XXXVI. 3 to the large kalathos-like type of
which XXVII. 11 isan advancerl speei-
men, were extremely common bat very
scklom had any decoration. Fig. 103
is the prettiest example of the or-
dinary kind, while Figs. 104, 105 are
noticeable as baving a design on the
inside like certain Kamürcs cups from
Eastern Crete. XXV. 11 has a flat i im
and has probably had little handles like
those of XXXVI. IG. The flat rim is
very common on the nnpainted cnps (r.g. yll{, 103.—Cüp with Rosette Patterh
XXXVI. !), 13), and the handles may in Red an» Black (2 :3).
possibly be derived from handles in
the form of animals' heads.2 The pattern on XXVII. 11, which is also
characteristic of Cretan pottery, sonietimes occurs in the form of XXIX. 5,
the irregulär thickness of the vertical lines being apparently intentional.
7. XXVII. 10 like Fig. 103 is a speeimen of a type that is almost always
without decoration. It is merely a small flat saucer. Two nnpainted vases
of similar form are shown on PI. XXXVI. 1—2. XXVII. 10 has a flat trefoil
protection on eacb side of the rim by way of handles : a better preserved
example on a fragment of piain wäre is shaped thus /^^~\ .
1 With the ornamentation of this gold eup
oompare the pattern on a fragment of Phyla-
kopi wäre, XXVIII. Ii.
- For an early Egyptian example see Petrie,
Kahun, Ourob and Hawara, PI. viii, 3.