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12 PREHISTORIC AEGEAN POTTERY.
with remains of polish. The bases of the handles were inserted in holes
bored through the wall of the vase, as can be seen in the roughly finished joint
inside.
A 66. TWO-HANDLED JAR. Ht. jj in. From Yortan, as A i, etc. Plate
As last, but with angles replaced by curves, and tops of handles set below
the lip ; the lower part of the body is slightly flattened, but has no foot. The
same fabric as last, but broken and discoloured as A 64 ; the clay is full of mica
particles, small and large. The handles are inserted as before, but the joints
inside are not smoothed off, and the tapered ends of the handles can be seen
projecting through the ragged holes.
[The last three vases resemble Trojan wares in fabric as well as form, which is akin to
the later Minyan bowls : .9.5. 537, 552, etc., and A 282. For inserted handles see B.S.A., x,
p. 200 (Crete) and Pliylakopi, p. 94 (Melos).]
A 67. CUP. Ht. (with handle), 5$ in. From Yortan, as A 1, etc.
Deep form with sharp shoulder, turned-out lip, and flat
base. A broad flat handle joins lip and shoulder in a small
loop rising slightly above the rim. At the base of the
handle is a small round sinking. Wheel-made, of very
hard reddish clay fired brown and black ; not a primitive
fabric. (Fig. 20.) Fig. 2o = A67.
[This vase does not resemble the rest of the pottery from Yortan, and may be of much
later date. Its shape however is Trojan : see 5.6". 3648, of the Seventh City.]
FROM HISSARLIK AND OTHER SITES (A68-A75).
A 68. ANTHROPOMORPHIC JAR. Ht. 4; in. From Hissarlik (Troy), 1877; presented Plate
by Mrs. Simpson, 1905. One lug and part of lip restored.
Hard clay, black in fracture and at the' base of the vase ; the upper part has
light brown surface. Wheel-made, but most of the marks of turning on the
outside are obliterated by the modelling. Globular body with flattened base,
cylindrical neck and lip slightly turned out; plastic decoration imitating features
of the human body. Two ridges below the lip, representing eyebrows, terminate
in curves for ears, and meet in the projecting nose, which has lost its tip. The
eyes are modelled as pointed bosses, and similar excrescences on the body
represent the breasts, below which the navel is indicated as a flat boss. Arms
are imitated in two pointed lug-handles set upright on each side of the body.
[The type begins in the Second City at Hissarlik : for the wheel-made class see
Sckliemann's Sammlung, 1068, etc. The form (without the plastic decoration) is the same as
that of A 66 from Yortan, and the colour and general appearance are similar.]
with remains of polish. The bases of the handles were inserted in holes
bored through the wall of the vase, as can be seen in the roughly finished joint
inside.
A 66. TWO-HANDLED JAR. Ht. jj in. From Yortan, as A i, etc. Plate
As last, but with angles replaced by curves, and tops of handles set below
the lip ; the lower part of the body is slightly flattened, but has no foot. The
same fabric as last, but broken and discoloured as A 64 ; the clay is full of mica
particles, small and large. The handles are inserted as before, but the joints
inside are not smoothed off, and the tapered ends of the handles can be seen
projecting through the ragged holes.
[The last three vases resemble Trojan wares in fabric as well as form, which is akin to
the later Minyan bowls : .9.5. 537, 552, etc., and A 282. For inserted handles see B.S.A., x,
p. 200 (Crete) and Pliylakopi, p. 94 (Melos).]
A 67. CUP. Ht. (with handle), 5$ in. From Yortan, as A 1, etc.
Deep form with sharp shoulder, turned-out lip, and flat
base. A broad flat handle joins lip and shoulder in a small
loop rising slightly above the rim. At the base of the
handle is a small round sinking. Wheel-made, of very
hard reddish clay fired brown and black ; not a primitive
fabric. (Fig. 20.) Fig. 2o = A67.
[This vase does not resemble the rest of the pottery from Yortan, and may be of much
later date. Its shape however is Trojan : see 5.6". 3648, of the Seventh City.]
FROM HISSARLIK AND OTHER SITES (A68-A75).
A 68. ANTHROPOMORPHIC JAR. Ht. 4; in. From Hissarlik (Troy), 1877; presented Plate
by Mrs. Simpson, 1905. One lug and part of lip restored.
Hard clay, black in fracture and at the' base of the vase ; the upper part has
light brown surface. Wheel-made, but most of the marks of turning on the
outside are obliterated by the modelling. Globular body with flattened base,
cylindrical neck and lip slightly turned out; plastic decoration imitating features
of the human body. Two ridges below the lip, representing eyebrows, terminate
in curves for ears, and meet in the projecting nose, which has lost its tip. The
eyes are modelled as pointed bosses, and similar excrescences on the body
represent the breasts, below which the navel is indicated as a flat boss. Arms
are imitated in two pointed lug-handles set upright on each side of the body.
[The type begins in the Second City at Hissarlik : for the wheel-made class see
Sckliemann's Sammlung, 1068, etc. The form (without the plastic decoration) is the same as
that of A 66 from Yortan, and the colour and general appearance are similar.]