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C. C. EDGAR
mann Mycenac, p. 323, no 491. They are somewhat suggestive of shells, but
it ia doubtful whether this idea was in the mind of the artist and certainly
the groundvvork of the design is in each case a spiral scheine. Fig. 142 is a
restoration of a large bowl with an interior handle reaching from rim to base :
possibly the original vessel had more than one such handle. The fragment
is of the same wäre as Fig. 141, and was not the only exarople of this peculiar
Fia. 143.—Rim and Shoulder of Lar<~:e Vase (1 :4).
type, to which some parallels can also be cited from Egyptian pottery of the
]2th Dynasty (Petrie, Kcüiun, Gnrob, and Hawara, p. 25, pl. xiii., 58).
Fig. 144, another instance of interior dccoration, recalls some of the designs
in Sect. 9, but the fragment is of different wäre, being composcd of gritty,
rcddish clay with light-coloured slip: the paint is the usual lustreless black,
A curious fragment of a similar sort of wäre, reproduced on PI. XIX. No. 8,
Fia. 144. —Intekiok of Shallow Vase (1:2).
contains a representation of a small human figure, which, like the gobiin
on PI. XIV. 9, has a spiral ornament placed over its head by way of a
Suggestion of hair.
PI. XXIV. 15 is part of a peculiar vase with small holes pierced through
its sides and with no opening at the top: its use is unknown and even its
shape is uncertain: the Stratum in which it was found was decidedly early.
mann Mycenac, p. 323, no 491. They are somewhat suggestive of shells, but
it ia doubtful whether this idea was in the mind of the artist and certainly
the groundvvork of the design is in each case a spiral scheine. Fig. 142 is a
restoration of a large bowl with an interior handle reaching from rim to base :
possibly the original vessel had more than one such handle. The fragment
is of the same wäre as Fig. 141, and was not the only exarople of this peculiar
Fia. 143.—Rim and Shoulder of Lar<~:e Vase (1 :4).
type, to which some parallels can also be cited from Egyptian pottery of the
]2th Dynasty (Petrie, Kcüiun, Gnrob, and Hawara, p. 25, pl. xiii., 58).
Fig. 144, another instance of interior dccoration, recalls some of the designs
in Sect. 9, but the fragment is of different wäre, being composcd of gritty,
rcddish clay with light-coloured slip: the paint is the usual lustreless black,
A curious fragment of a similar sort of wäre, reproduced on PI. XIX. No. 8,
Fia. 144. —Intekiok of Shallow Vase (1:2).
contains a representation of a small human figure, which, like the gobiin
on PI. XIV. 9, has a spiral ornament placed over its head by way of a
Suggestion of hair.
PI. XXIV. 15 is part of a peculiar vase with small holes pierced through
its sides and with no opening at the top: its use is unknown and even its
shape is uncertain: the Stratum in which it was found was decidedly early.