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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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MIDDLE AND LATE CYCLADIC. 69

A 380. FRAGMENT from base of vase. L. zh in. Similar ware. On the base is a circle

divided into quadrants. As Phylakopi, pi. xxvi, 8.

A 381. FRAGMENT. L. 3| in. Pale clay with smooth surface, and decoration in lustrous

brown varnish. Broad horizontal bands, and the ends of a row of leaves or crescents. This
piece is very like Cretan ware, but the clay is coarse and porous.

A 382. FRAGMENT. L. 3I in. Coarse brown clay. Design in reddish-brown pigment.

The whole surface has been burnished after painting to imitate the Cretan lustre, and the
design is blurred. The decoration consists of double rows of pairs of leaves between horizontal
bands. (Fig. 82 ; Phylakopi, pi. xxix, 2.)

A 383. FRAGMENT. L. 2 in. Fine, hard clay, with good yellow surface. Brown painted

pattern of a conventional twig with leaves on each side. (Fig. 82.")

A 384. FRAGMENT, similar. L. 2| in. Clay coarser, slip worn away ; similar design.

From the rim of a bowl.

A 385. FRAGMENT of similar ware. L. 4 in. The design consists of plain horizontal bands

and linked spiral coils.

A 386-9. Fragments from Thcra. Late Cycladic.

A 386. FRAGMENT from base of bowl. L. 3J in. Pale greenish clay, coarse and porous.

The inside of the vase was painted with a thin brown wash.

A 387. FRAGMENT. L. 3 in. Pale brownish clay, porous, with smooth surface, on which is

painted a bud or flower on a long curved tendril, in dull brown colour.

A 388. FRAGMENT. L. 3} in. Pale greenish clay, coarse and open, as before ; design of a

conventional twig with leaves on each side, in brown colour.

A 389. FRAGMENT. L. 3J in. Similar technique; design of a spiral coil.

A 390. Fragment excavated at Hala Sultan Tekke, near Larnaka, in Cyprus, 1897.

Pale greenish clay, as before, with naturalistic design of a stem with long pointed leaves,
in semi-lustrous olive-brown varnish. L. 3% in.

[The fragments of an L.M. \\b bowl (A 705) were also found on this site.]


 
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