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

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PREHISTORIC AEGEAN POTTERY.

A 566. FRAGMENT of lid. L. 2 in. Kahtm, ibid., 5. Fabric as last; a low domed lid or

saucer decorated outside with diminishing chevrons in a circle within another circle : probably
a cross with filled angles. (Fig. 115.)

A 567. FRAGMENT of bowl. Ht. 31 in. Kahtm, ibid., 1 ;J.H.S.,ibid.,S. Thick, heavy ware,

black all through, with lustrous surface on which are painted zones of minute geometrical
patterns, hatched lines, discs, dotted circles, and thin bands in powdery white, vermilion and
lemon yellow. The colours are not fixed as in Kamares ware : this is a painted bucchero. The

Fig. 115.—Fabrics imitating Minoan Pottery, from Egypt.

A 568.

bowl or jug had a globular body with wide cylindrical neck and a ilat loop handle standing on
lip and shoulder. The design on the neck was a band of linked spiral coils with dotted circles
between them. (Fig. 115.)

[This piece is neither Cretan nor Egyptian in fabric, but it is plainly an imitation 01
Kamares ware. Both form and technique point to a place of origin in Asia Minor (compare
the earlier painted bucchero jugs from Yortan, A 17, etc.). The patterns resemble those on a
jug found at Phylakopi (see the fragment A 370), which is decorated in a strange Cycladic
style and has an Anatolian form. This may be derived from the same source.]

Fragment from Cyprus.

Excavated at Curium, 1895 ; Tomb 101. B.M. Excavations in
Cyprus, p. 81, /M.S., xxxi, p. 111, fig. 1. L. 3-i in. Very thin ware ;
dark grey clay baked red, outside covered with good black varnish and
painted with two horizontal lines and a row of dots, and regular zigzag-
patterns of round spots in white. (Fig. 116.)

[The other objects from the tomb were of Late Mycenaean
period, and cannot be connected with this piece.]

Fig. 116 = A 568.