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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PREHISTORIC AEGEAN POTTERY.

A 703-4.
A 7031-e.

the large jars of the ' Palace Style' from the Royal Tomb at Isopata : A. J. Evans, The Pre.
historic Tombs of Kuossos (= Archaeologia, lix), figs. 141 sq. For the toreutic origin of the
'foliate bands ' see ibid., p. 121 ; for the 'notched plume' pattern, ibid., p. 157 and Palace of
Minos, i, p. 549 ; and for the ' arrow-heads,' A 705, note.]

Fragments from Palaikastro.

FRAGMENTS with spiral patterns. L. 2 in. to 4 in. Nos. 1 and 2 are from bowls like
A 637, but the coils are not truly linked to one another; 4 shows a double coil ; 5 and 6 have
coils in which the central eye is a reserved rosette. (Fig. 148.)



'A 703

A 704

A 704

Fig. 148.—From Knossos, Palaikastro, Zakro.' (Late Mikoan II.)

A 704i-7. FRAGMENTS with floral and linear patterns. L. 4| in. to 2 in. No. 1 bears a double

fan-shaped figure with reserved interior in which are chevrons ; 2 has buds on long curved
stems ; 3 has a stylised lily as A 701. Nos. 4 and 5 belong to bowls with two rows of large
net-pattern looped round the lip ; 6 is from a bowl with foliate band on shoulder ; 7 is part
of a large vase with diagonal lattice containing curve-hatched figures in brilliant red varnish
on fine yellow slip. (Fig. 148.)