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THE MINOR ANTIQUITIES OF CLAY.
205
Parts of nine oxen and four nondescript quadrupeds of the same fabric.
In spite of their technical excellence, these figures are decidedly stiffer and
less true to nature than the local productions grouped under (c).
Head and fbre-part of body of ox, Fig. 177. The ears and horns are broken
away and the nose, restored in the drawing, seems to have been a mere
cylinder; the body is a cylinder made on the wheel, recalling modern toy-
horses of wood. Eyes in relief. Red glaze paint used for stripes on face, neck
and ehest. A small orifice on the top of the head. Height '17.
There remain two fragments which it is convenient to treat together,
thongli they come from different strata, The one shown in Fig. 178 (cp.
PL XXIV. 7) can be completed withont difficultyas the head and neck of a
bull. It seems to have been closed below, and the nose is pierced ; but it is
impossible to say whether there was any other opening ; possibly this protome
was a reeeptacle like the archaic unguent-vases in the shape of animals'
lieads (for instance B.C.II, xix. p. 171, and Berlin Vase Cataloguc, No. 1302,
bulls' lieads with an opening in the left ear). Gritty local clay, coated with a
whitish slip; lustreless dark brown paint Covers the whole face, excepting
the ftattened and slightly elliptical eyeball; marks of knife-trimining on the
throat. Found 240 m. below the surface in the Square F 3, presumably
therefore from the Second City. Height "09.
The base of a similar head from the Third (or Mycenaean) City is repre-
sented in Fig. 179; a round opening at the back, -02 in diameter, shows that
it was not a vase; the ear is the only feature preserved. Reddish-yellow,
well levigated Mycenaean clay, covered with yellow slip ; no colour. Length
11.
Compare the protomai of bulls represented among the offerings of the
Keftiu (W. Max Müller, Asien und Europa, p. 348).
Since the above was put into type, a completo bull's head, like Fig. 179
but larger, has been found by Miss Boyd at Gournia, in Crete.
205
Parts of nine oxen and four nondescript quadrupeds of the same fabric.
In spite of their technical excellence, these figures are decidedly stiffer and
less true to nature than the local productions grouped under (c).
Head and fbre-part of body of ox, Fig. 177. The ears and horns are broken
away and the nose, restored in the drawing, seems to have been a mere
cylinder; the body is a cylinder made on the wheel, recalling modern toy-
horses of wood. Eyes in relief. Red glaze paint used for stripes on face, neck
and ehest. A small orifice on the top of the head. Height '17.
There remain two fragments which it is convenient to treat together,
thongli they come from different strata, The one shown in Fig. 178 (cp.
PL XXIV. 7) can be completed withont difficultyas the head and neck of a
bull. It seems to have been closed below, and the nose is pierced ; but it is
impossible to say whether there was any other opening ; possibly this protome
was a reeeptacle like the archaic unguent-vases in the shape of animals'
lieads (for instance B.C.II, xix. p. 171, and Berlin Vase Cataloguc, No. 1302,
bulls' lieads with an opening in the left ear). Gritty local clay, coated with a
whitish slip; lustreless dark brown paint Covers the whole face, excepting
the ftattened and slightly elliptical eyeball; marks of knife-trimining on the
throat. Found 240 m. below the surface in the Square F 3, presumably
therefore from the Second City. Height "09.
The base of a similar head from the Third (or Mycenaean) City is repre-
sented in Fig. 179; a round opening at the back, -02 in diameter, shows that
it was not a vase; the ear is the only feature preserved. Reddish-yellow,
well levigated Mycenaean clay, covered with yellow slip ; no colour. Length
11.
Compare the protomai of bulls represented among the offerings of the
Keftiu (W. Max Müller, Asien und Europa, p. 348).
Since the above was put into type, a completo bull's head, like Fig. 179
but larger, has been found by Miss Boyd at Gournia, in Crete.