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)

LATE MINOAN III.

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A 719. GOBLET. Ht. 9! in. Perhaps Cretan fabric ; bought 1907. Part of foot restored.

A large bowl, shape as A 712, with two vertical loop handles, mounted on a
slender solid stem with flat foot. Red clay with dull yellowish surface, and
decoration in red varnish. On each side of the bowl are two goats rearing up to
a central tree, strips of herring-bone pattern in the field. Lip and handles
are covered with varnish ; stem and foot are ringed with broad bands.
[For the shape see A 858, etc., from Ialysos.]

Plate IX.

Fig. 159. From Knossos and Palaikastko. (Late Minoan III.)

A720-30. Fragments excavated at Palaikastro.

A 720i-3. FRAGMENTS from rim and bodies of vases. L. 2} in. to yi m- Ped or yellow clay

covered with chalky yellow slip. The patterns are curved rays, closely set. No. 1 has a ring" of
vertical zigzags outside these (Fig. 159). In 3 the black varnish has turned bright red.

[These rays are descended from the toreutic ' foliate bands' of the Palace style as in

A 702, etc.]

A 721i-4. FRAGMENTS from bodies of vases. L. 3 in. to l| in. Red clay with white slip, and

on this close horizontal zigzag lines in black varnish. (Fig. 159.)