DOI Page / Citation link:
https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.15680#0217
MINOR ANTIQU1TIES OF METAL, BONE, IVORY AND STONE. 197
varieties were found, und are shown in Figs. 166—9; where the form is
certain fractures have been disregarded. The material is a black or dark-
grey steatite with a varying admixture of softer white streaks or patcb.es, and
takes a blue-black surface when polished.
Fig. 160.—Steatite 'Blossom- Fig. 167.—Steatite ' Blossom-Bowl '
Bowl.' (1:4.) WITH tbiple RlBBING. (1:4.)
«. Fig. 166.—' Blossom-bowl,' resembling a flower within its ealyx. Three
incomplete examples from Phylakopi. Mr. Evans has published one from
Milato, in Crete, and described another from near Ampelos at the south-
eastern extremity of the island (Cretan Pictographs, pp. 119, 123). Others
occurred at Zakro in 1901, andat Palaikastro in 1902. One from Mycenae is
in the Athens Museum. A fragment of another was found yet further afield
at Troy (Dörpfeld, Troja und Ilion, Fig. 373). For finds at Cnossos, see p. 266.
Two of the Phylakopi examples were found in the passages K 3:5 and
K 3 : 7 outside a house which yielded only Mycenaean pottery; one lay near
the surface, the other at a depth of "85, while the Mycenaean floor-level is
here 1'80 down. The vessels c (Fig. 169), and i (Fig. 171), and a knobbed
lid of green schist of the type described under _/, came from the same deposit.
The third Phylakopi blossom-bowl occurred in the second half-metre from the
surface at J 1 :9, associated with imported Mycenaean pottery, but also with
mature native Melian wäre such as was not found above the flooi'-levcl of the
Mycenaean Palace.
A confirmation of the early Mycenaean date of some of the steatite
vessels was furnished m E 3, where in adjoining rooms, 15 and 16, at the same *
depth of l'SO, there were found a native Melian vase with a design of birds
in black and red (p. 119, Fig. 91) and the half of a steatite lamp.
ü. Fig. 167.—A variant form in which the broad vertical bands are
separated by three narrow ribs. One incomplete example.
c. Fig. 168.—A bowl with graceful oblique fluting. One complete
example, found in K 3 :5 at a depth of 115.
d. Fig. 169.—A smaller bowl with four horizontal grooves. One
complete example. Another was found at Palaikastro in 1902.
Aniong the fragments of bowls and cups of other shapes there are three
which deserve mention because they exhibit characteristic forms of handle.
The material is as before.
varieties were found, und are shown in Figs. 166—9; where the form is
certain fractures have been disregarded. The material is a black or dark-
grey steatite with a varying admixture of softer white streaks or patcb.es, and
takes a blue-black surface when polished.
Fig. 160.—Steatite 'Blossom- Fig. 167.—Steatite ' Blossom-Bowl '
Bowl.' (1:4.) WITH tbiple RlBBING. (1:4.)
«. Fig. 166.—' Blossom-bowl,' resembling a flower within its ealyx. Three
incomplete examples from Phylakopi. Mr. Evans has published one from
Milato, in Crete, and described another from near Ampelos at the south-
eastern extremity of the island (Cretan Pictographs, pp. 119, 123). Others
occurred at Zakro in 1901, andat Palaikastro in 1902. One from Mycenae is
in the Athens Museum. A fragment of another was found yet further afield
at Troy (Dörpfeld, Troja und Ilion, Fig. 373). For finds at Cnossos, see p. 266.
Two of the Phylakopi examples were found in the passages K 3:5 and
K 3 : 7 outside a house which yielded only Mycenaean pottery; one lay near
the surface, the other at a depth of "85, while the Mycenaean floor-level is
here 1'80 down. The vessels c (Fig. 169), and i (Fig. 171), and a knobbed
lid of green schist of the type described under _/, came from the same deposit.
The third Phylakopi blossom-bowl occurred in the second half-metre from the
surface at J 1 :9, associated with imported Mycenaean pottery, but also with
mature native Melian wäre such as was not found above the flooi'-levcl of the
Mycenaean Palace.
A confirmation of the early Mycenaean date of some of the steatite
vessels was furnished m E 3, where in adjoining rooms, 15 and 16, at the same *
depth of l'SO, there were found a native Melian vase with a design of birds
in black and red (p. 119, Fig. 91) and the half of a steatite lamp.
ü. Fig. 167.—A variant form in which the broad vertical bands are
separated by three narrow ribs. One incomplete example.
c. Fig. 168.—A bowl with graceful oblique fluting. One complete
example, found in K 3 :5 at a depth of 115.
d. Fig. 169.—A smaller bowl with four horizontal grooves. One
complete example. Another was found at Palaikastro in 1902.
Aniong the fragments of bowls and cups of other shapes there are three
which deserve mention because they exhibit characteristic forms of handle.
The material is as before.