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MIDDLE CYCLADIC.
6t
shoulder, whence the neck contracts in a hollow curve to the
month, which opens to the front in a square-cut spout and is
joined behind by a round loop handle. The back of the handle
hears a deeply incised lattice pattern, exactly as in A 333.
(Fig. 71.)
[The last four pieces are a distinct group of finer fabric than the
other pottery from Antiparos. Bent notes that the jug was found in the
only grave that showed 'no trace of bones.' This vase approaches the
Minoan forms, and the remarkable incised decoration on it and A 333
appears also on the E.M.-M.M. vases A 442, A 443 from Crete.]
A 338.
A 339.
A 340.
MIDDLE CYCLADIC (A338^a 360).
Most of the Middle Cycladic vases were excavated on the town-site at
Phylakopi in Melos by the British School of Archaeology at Athens in 1 S96-9,
and were presented by the School in 1903. A supplementary excavation was
made in 1910.
For full publication of the earlier work see Excavations at Phylakopi in Melos (Soc.
Prom. Hell. Stud., Suppl. Paper no. 4), and for the later, B.S.A., xvii, p. 1.
JUG. Ht. 7£ in. Morel Collection. The pointed end of the spout is restored.
Conical body, with leaf-shaped spout, round loop handle and flat base as
A. 33 r, but the upper end of the handle touches the lip. Very hard light brown
°lay ; no painted decoration. Within the handle is incised a horizontal line,
and on the front of the body a cross.
JUG. lit. 10 in. Christy Collection, as A 330. End of spout
chipped.
Globular bod}', tapering to flat base and narrow neck,
as A 331, and loop handle as last; but the sides of the
mouth are pinched together to form a long narrow beak
very steeply sloping. Red clay with darker polished
surface and decoration in white paint. This consists of three
pairs of horizontal bands on the beak, three rings at base
of neck, and on the body five groups of five (in one case
six) vertical bars closed at both ends and connected by
pairs of diagonal lines drawn from the bottom of each to
the top of the next group on the right. On the back of
the handle is incised a vertical stroke. (Fig. 72.)
Fig. 7.,= A;
JUG. Ht. 6|
spout broken away.
From Melos: presented by Captain Graves, R.N., 1852. End of
Beak as last, but with conical body as A '338, and handle springing from
lower edge of lip. Hard brown clay, which is covered above the low shoulder
6t
shoulder, whence the neck contracts in a hollow curve to the
month, which opens to the front in a square-cut spout and is
joined behind by a round loop handle. The back of the handle
hears a deeply incised lattice pattern, exactly as in A 333.
(Fig. 71.)
[The last four pieces are a distinct group of finer fabric than the
other pottery from Antiparos. Bent notes that the jug was found in the
only grave that showed 'no trace of bones.' This vase approaches the
Minoan forms, and the remarkable incised decoration on it and A 333
appears also on the E.M.-M.M. vases A 442, A 443 from Crete.]
A 338.
A 339.
A 340.
MIDDLE CYCLADIC (A338^a 360).
Most of the Middle Cycladic vases were excavated on the town-site at
Phylakopi in Melos by the British School of Archaeology at Athens in 1 S96-9,
and were presented by the School in 1903. A supplementary excavation was
made in 1910.
For full publication of the earlier work see Excavations at Phylakopi in Melos (Soc.
Prom. Hell. Stud., Suppl. Paper no. 4), and for the later, B.S.A., xvii, p. 1.
JUG. Ht. 7£ in. Morel Collection. The pointed end of the spout is restored.
Conical body, with leaf-shaped spout, round loop handle and flat base as
A. 33 r, but the upper end of the handle touches the lip. Very hard light brown
°lay ; no painted decoration. Within the handle is incised a horizontal line,
and on the front of the body a cross.
JUG. lit. 10 in. Christy Collection, as A 330. End of spout
chipped.
Globular bod}', tapering to flat base and narrow neck,
as A 331, and loop handle as last; but the sides of the
mouth are pinched together to form a long narrow beak
very steeply sloping. Red clay with darker polished
surface and decoration in white paint. This consists of three
pairs of horizontal bands on the beak, three rings at base
of neck, and on the body five groups of five (in one case
six) vertical bars closed at both ends and connected by
pairs of diagonal lines drawn from the bottom of each to
the top of the next group on the right. On the back of
the handle is incised a vertical stroke. (Fig. 72.)
Fig. 7.,= A;
JUG. Ht. 6|
spout broken away.
From Melos: presented by Captain Graves, R.N., 1852. End of
Beak as last, but with conical body as A '338, and handle springing from
lower edge of lip. Hard brown clay, which is covered above the low shoulder