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THE POTTEHY.
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illustrations are sufficient to show, and is one of a few instances of the
importation of Cypriote pottery into Greece in the early Mycenaean age 1:
another example has been furnished by the neighbouring island of Thera.
The little fragment reproduced on PI. XXIV. J 2 is representative of a differ-
ent kind of imported wäre ; it belongs to the same fabric as the globular jugs
t'ound in the shaft-graves at Mycenae. We came across a good many pieces
of this wäre and among them the greater part of a large jug with a frieze of
birds.2 It is interesting to note that the latter was found in the same deposit
as the Cypriote fragments (see p. 163, J 2, 3-350 m).
§ 19.— The Chronologiced Relaiions of the preceding Falrics to cachßthcr and
to the various Settlements.
We have divided the Phylakopi pottery into four main groups, shading
.off into cach other, and each of them capable of further sub-division. These
are as follows:—
I. («) The more primitive pottery of the cist-tomb class (Sect. 2).
(Ii) The more advanced wäre of Sects. 3 and 4.
II. Painted geometric potteiy (Sects. 5-7).
III. Local pottery in the Mycenaean style, with Spiral and naturalistic
designs : earlier period (Sects. 9, 10); later period (Sect. 13).
IV. Imported Mycenaean pottery of F. and L.'s third and fourth styles
(Sect. 16).
The above order is ronghly chronological; that was clearly proved by
the stratification and by the average depth at which the fragments composing
these groups were found. The question now is, can we bring them into
relation with the various Settlements as distinguished on Mr. Atkinson's
plan ?
Let me briefly recapitulate the results arrived at as regards the architec-
tural strata. The remains of masonry laid bare within the bounds of the
streng wall and the edge of the cliff can be roughly divided into three layers.
On the top, we have a compact little town, with a palace of the usual
Mycenaean type in the middle of it. Underneath this liesasecond systein of
houses, the walls of which are in many cases surprisingly well preserved; the
plan of the Upper settlement is largely based on that of the lower and the
house-walls of the latter have frequently been used as foundations for those
of the former. Below this again we find at various parts of the site remains
of a still older settlement, the houses of which for the most part are founded
on the rock.
The history of the pottery and that of the buildings cannot be correlated
1 See Myres, Cyprus Mus. Cat. p. 18. reproduced here: it is exactly like those
- This vase lias been restored bnt is not from the shaft-graves.
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illustrations are sufficient to show, and is one of a few instances of the
importation of Cypriote pottery into Greece in the early Mycenaean age 1:
another example has been furnished by the neighbouring island of Thera.
The little fragment reproduced on PI. XXIV. J 2 is representative of a differ-
ent kind of imported wäre ; it belongs to the same fabric as the globular jugs
t'ound in the shaft-graves at Mycenae. We came across a good many pieces
of this wäre and among them the greater part of a large jug with a frieze of
birds.2 It is interesting to note that the latter was found in the same deposit
as the Cypriote fragments (see p. 163, J 2, 3-350 m).
§ 19.— The Chronologiced Relaiions of the preceding Falrics to cachßthcr and
to the various Settlements.
We have divided the Phylakopi pottery into four main groups, shading
.off into cach other, and each of them capable of further sub-division. These
are as follows:—
I. («) The more primitive pottery of the cist-tomb class (Sect. 2).
(Ii) The more advanced wäre of Sects. 3 and 4.
II. Painted geometric potteiy (Sects. 5-7).
III. Local pottery in the Mycenaean style, with Spiral and naturalistic
designs : earlier period (Sects. 9, 10); later period (Sect. 13).
IV. Imported Mycenaean pottery of F. and L.'s third and fourth styles
(Sect. 16).
The above order is ronghly chronological; that was clearly proved by
the stratification and by the average depth at which the fragments composing
these groups were found. The question now is, can we bring them into
relation with the various Settlements as distinguished on Mr. Atkinson's
plan ?
Let me briefly recapitulate the results arrived at as regards the architec-
tural strata. The remains of masonry laid bare within the bounds of the
streng wall and the edge of the cliff can be roughly divided into three layers.
On the top, we have a compact little town, with a palace of the usual
Mycenaean type in the middle of it. Underneath this liesasecond systein of
houses, the walls of which are in many cases surprisingly well preserved; the
plan of the Upper settlement is largely based on that of the lower and the
house-walls of the latter have frequently been used as foundations for those
of the former. Below this again we find at various parts of the site remains
of a still older settlement, the houses of which for the most part are founded
on the rock.
The history of the pottery and that of the buildings cannot be correlated
1 See Myres, Cyprus Mus. Cat. p. 18. reproduced here: it is exactly like those
- This vase lias been restored bnt is not from the shaft-graves.