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Forsdyke, Edgar J.; British Museum <London> [Editor]
Catalogue of the Greek and Etruscan Vases in the British Museum (Band 1,1): Prehistoric Aegean pottery — London, 1925

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EARLY CYCLADIC.

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A 303.

Plate IV.

A 304.

A 305.

A 306.

A 307.

A 308.

A 309.

running vertically, the triangles so formed filled with hatching.running obliquely
•n alternate directions ; the narrow bands are filled with hatching running in
alternate directions. (Fig. 57.)

JAR. Ht. 5f in. Excavated in Antiparos and presented by J. T. Bent, 1890.
Shape as last and A 301, with wider neck and mouth, and lip slightly
turned out; the four string-holes are preserved. Coarse brown clay with smooth
greyish surface which is partly worn through. Near the base is a narrow oval
hole an inch long, as if broken with a knife or similar instrument, probably in
the excavation. The shoulder is slightly set
off from the neck, but there is no decoration
on the body.

JAR. Ht. 6 in. Probably from Antiparos, as
preceding. Partly restored.

Shape as last, with wide neck and lip
turned out ; coarse clay with smooth greyish
surface. The body is irregularly striped with
impressed vertical lines. (Fig. 58.)

JAR. Ht. 4J in. Probably from Antiparos, as
last. Fragmentary and restored.

Wide neck with lip turned out; dark grey
clay, polished. No decoration. Fig. 58

JAR. Ht. 5 in. Probably from Antiparos, as last and A 304. One side is restored.

Round shoulder, short neck and wide mouth. Dark red clay, speckled with
stony particles. No decoration.

JAR. Ht. 51 in. Probably from Antiparos, as A 304, etc. One side restored ; the rim
is lost.

Shape as before, but the shoulder is flat, with a sharp edge in which the
string-holes are pierced. Brown clay (black in fracture), covered with a lustrous
red wash which is partly worn away. No incised decoration.

JAR, with foot. Ht. 6} in. Excavated in Antiparos, and presented by J. T. Bent, 1889. Plate IV.

Shape as A 301, etc., but with very wide mouth and a high hollow foot.
Brown clay, coarse and brittle ; remains of two pairs of string-holes. On the
body are incised broad vertical bands of herring-bone separated by bands of
three plain lines.

BOTTLE. Ht. 4 in. From Antiparos, as A 301, etc. J H.S., v, p. 55, fig. 11 ;, Hall, Plate IV.
Aegean Arch., pi. XIII, 5.

Shape as in the preceding series of jars, but with much narrower neck. Brown
clay burnt partly black, and slightly polished. On each side of the shoulder is
 
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