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THE MINOR ANTIQUITIES OF CLAY.
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gunwale unite in a projecting bovvsprit; there is a projecting forefoot below
the water-line ; length '06, width "045. Brown paint along gunwale.
Box 011 fcct, PL VIII. LS, much broken; width, complete, -09: length,
incomplete, -095 ; depth inside '05 ; total height including f'eet, '075. On the
end an oblique chequer-pattern, on the sides oblique parallel lines; in each
case within a border-line. At each corner a piain Square foot. Reddish local
clay, white wash, dull black paint.
Fragment of aminiaturc stool or arched stand, Fig. 181 ; all that survives
is part of the top, which is slightly concave and without decoration, and part
of one side and one end, which are decorated with designs in dull black over
a white slip. The clay is greenish, the technique that of the Second
Fig. 182,—Box-like Vesskl, with Türke Round Ofeninos ix the top. (1 : 4.)
City; compare PI. XVIII. 22-25, and Mr. Edgars remarks on this fabric
(p. 118, 9).
The reconstruction attenipted in M. Gillieron's drawing is jnstifiecl by the
position of the Ornaments. Rosettes are not uncommonon the pottery ofthis
period, and there are other instances of the swastika and of the arrow-like
ornaments, but it is hard to find a parallel for the long-necked long-eared
animal (hare ?) on the front.1 Greatest height 10, length -09, breadth -055.
Fig. 182 represents a mysterious vessel of gritty brown clay, found un-
broken in a pre-Mycenaean house, at the east side of the doorway between
rooms J 3. 2 and J 3. 7 and at the level of the threshold. It is an oblong
box, 25 long, 15 wide, and'24 high, with rounded angles ; the sides are covered
with overlapping scales modelled in relief. In the centre of the Hat top rises
1 Mr. Edgar suggests tliat this tigure may liave been meant for a boat.
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gunwale unite in a projecting bovvsprit; there is a projecting forefoot below
the water-line ; length '06, width "045. Brown paint along gunwale.
Box 011 fcct, PL VIII. LS, much broken; width, complete, -09: length,
incomplete, -095 ; depth inside '05 ; total height including f'eet, '075. On the
end an oblique chequer-pattern, on the sides oblique parallel lines; in each
case within a border-line. At each corner a piain Square foot. Reddish local
clay, white wash, dull black paint.
Fragment of aminiaturc stool or arched stand, Fig. 181 ; all that survives
is part of the top, which is slightly concave and without decoration, and part
of one side and one end, which are decorated with designs in dull black over
a white slip. The clay is greenish, the technique that of the Second
Fig. 182,—Box-like Vesskl, with Türke Round Ofeninos ix the top. (1 : 4.)
City; compare PI. XVIII. 22-25, and Mr. Edgars remarks on this fabric
(p. 118, 9).
The reconstruction attenipted in M. Gillieron's drawing is jnstifiecl by the
position of the Ornaments. Rosettes are not uncommonon the pottery ofthis
period, and there are other instances of the swastika and of the arrow-like
ornaments, but it is hard to find a parallel for the long-necked long-eared
animal (hare ?) on the front.1 Greatest height 10, length -09, breadth -055.
Fig. 182 represents a mysterious vessel of gritty brown clay, found un-
broken in a pre-Mycenaean house, at the east side of the doorway between
rooms J 3. 2 and J 3. 7 and at the level of the threshold. It is an oblong
box, 25 long, 15 wide, and'24 high, with rounded angles ; the sides are covered
with overlapping scales modelled in relief. In the centre of the Hat top rises
1 Mr. Edgar suggests tliat this tigure may liave been meant for a boat.