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THE SUCCESSIVE SETTLEMENTS AT PHYLAKOPI.
teristic of deposit of tlie Second City, on tlic other hand fche wäre
PI. X-XIII is traditional. That is to say, somc of it, as has been already
instanced, was found to belong to floor-deposit of the latest period of the
Fii-st City, and some of the types, as we shall see, can with equal certainty
be regarded as surviving into the Second City.
The most remarkable instances of such survival are the types of bowl
XXXIII, 1, 2 and 3-8. The earliest examples of these were found in
floor-deposit belonging to tho latest period of the First City. Yet the
manufacture of these l)owls is continued into the early era of the Second
Citv, and with a gradual modification of form is carried on into the mature
Second and early Third period. It was during this period that the evolution
occurred which differentiated the higher and deeper forms 10-20 out of the
flatter early forms 1-9. Again, cups of the type XI, !)-ll occurred in the
same sort of context as the above bowls in floor-deposit, also belonging to
the latest period of the First City. They also, however, can be shown to have
survived throughout the early era of the Second City, for the}- still occur in
floor-deposit of this settlenient, belonging to the same period at which
imported polychrome wäre from Crete begins to appear. Thus, in the trans-
ition period marking the end of the First City and the beginning of the
Second, there is no break in ceramic evolution corresponding to the break in
architectural development. Here also we have one of the certain proofs of
fundamental continuity of race between the people of the First and those of
the Second City.
2. With the appearance of polychrome wäre imported from Crete we
arrive at an important land-mark in the history of the Second City.
In the early period of the Second City the geometric style inherited
from the previous era still continued in its prime. On the other hand
the first attempts at curvilinear design already noticeable in the ciosing
period of the First City had in the early era of the Second City
begun to develop into the elements of a curvilinear style. In the era
which is marked by the appearance in Melos of imported polychrome wäre
from Crete, the tendency is completed in the formation of a curvilinear style
in lustreless dark design on a light clay-slip ground, which now appears as
characteristic for the Melos of that period, as the polychrome style with light
design on a dark ground does in contemporary Crete. In this process of
transformation the permanent elements of geometric design caine to be in-
corporated as architectonic functions, alongside of other elements of a purely
ornamental character that survive with a long lease of sporadic life down to
the latest Aegean Age.
We have already seen that the Melians themselvcs, under tho Stimulus
of import from Crete, had been tending towards the creation of a style with
light design on a dark ground alongside of the style with dark design on a
light ground. But the lack-lustre effect of the lustrous glaze-medium, as
ground, on the porous Melian clay, and intrinsic hindrances towards the
reception of the polychrome elements of design presented by the Melian
Substitutes for the lustrous Cretan glazes, effectively retarded and arrested
teristic of deposit of tlie Second City, on tlic other hand fche wäre
PI. X-XIII is traditional. That is to say, somc of it, as has been already
instanced, was found to belong to floor-deposit of the latest period of the
Fii-st City, and some of the types, as we shall see, can with equal certainty
be regarded as surviving into the Second City.
The most remarkable instances of such survival are the types of bowl
XXXIII, 1, 2 and 3-8. The earliest examples of these were found in
floor-deposit belonging to tho latest period of the First City. Yet the
manufacture of these l)owls is continued into the early era of the Second
Citv, and with a gradual modification of form is carried on into the mature
Second and early Third period. It was during this period that the evolution
occurred which differentiated the higher and deeper forms 10-20 out of the
flatter early forms 1-9. Again, cups of the type XI, !)-ll occurred in the
same sort of context as the above bowls in floor-deposit, also belonging to
the latest period of the First City. They also, however, can be shown to have
survived throughout the early era of the Second City, for the}- still occur in
floor-deposit of this settlenient, belonging to the same period at which
imported polychrome wäre from Crete begins to appear. Thus, in the trans-
ition period marking the end of the First City and the beginning of the
Second, there is no break in ceramic evolution corresponding to the break in
architectural development. Here also we have one of the certain proofs of
fundamental continuity of race between the people of the First and those of
the Second City.
2. With the appearance of polychrome wäre imported from Crete we
arrive at an important land-mark in the history of the Second City.
In the early period of the Second City the geometric style inherited
from the previous era still continued in its prime. On the other hand
the first attempts at curvilinear design already noticeable in the ciosing
period of the First City had in the early era of the Second City
begun to develop into the elements of a curvilinear style. In the era
which is marked by the appearance in Melos of imported polychrome wäre
from Crete, the tendency is completed in the formation of a curvilinear style
in lustreless dark design on a light clay-slip ground, which now appears as
characteristic for the Melos of that period, as the polychrome style with light
design on a dark ground does in contemporary Crete. In this process of
transformation the permanent elements of geometric design caine to be in-
corporated as architectonic functions, alongside of other elements of a purely
ornamental character that survive with a long lease of sporadic life down to
the latest Aegean Age.
We have already seen that the Melians themselvcs, under tho Stimulus
of import from Crete, had been tending towards the creation of a style with
light design on a dark ground alongside of the style with dark design on a
light ground. But the lack-lustre effect of the lustrous glaze-medium, as
ground, on the porous Melian clay, and intrinsic hindrances towards the
reception of the polychrome elements of design presented by the Melian
Substitutes for the lustrous Cretan glazes, effectively retarded and arrested