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LATE MYCENAEAN.
141
A 810.
A 811.
knobs, the holes are arranged in four rows, and
there is a hollow, conical foot. (Fig. 186.)
FIRE-BOWL. Ht. 2-1 in., diam. 5 in. Tomb 38.
Presented, 1872. M. V., p. 17, no. 65L
Clay and fabric as before ; in shape, a shallow
hemispherical dish. In the bottom is pierced a
series of 57 holes, averaging \ in. diameter,
arranged close together in a spiral coil. These
holes have been carelessly punched from outside
when the clay was still soft, and a high ridge
remains round the edge of each inside. (Fig. 187.)
= A 803.
TRIPOD BOWL. Ht. 10 in. Tomb 16. Presented, 1S72.
M.V., pi. vii., 38; p. 12; Dumont and Chaplain, Ce'ramique de la
Grece Profire, pi. iii., 4 ; Perrot and Chipiez, Hist., vi, p. 919.
Shape as A 801, but with a flanged shoulder and
round loop handle arched high over the mouth. Good
fabric: dark red clay with light yellow slip and red
varnish. On the shoulder, which is more sharply offset
than in the roughly-made braziers, is a band containing
two pairs of conjoined spirals on each side, the angles between them being
filled with crosses. On the handles are narrow bars between two broad lines ;
on the body, plain bands.
Plate X.
A 812-4. Squat Globular Bowls.
The body is broad and shallow, with flat or convex base, at the edge of
which the sides turn sharply inwards and rise in a low convex curve to a small
mouth ; the lip is turned over outwards. On the upper part of the shoulder are
three small loop handles set horizontally. The design, which seems always to
have a marine subject, occupies the whole of the convex shoulder ; there are
usually two or three plain bands below the design, forming a border to the
base, and the base usually bears in this period two groups of concentric bands.
The lip and handles are painted black.
The flat, bluntly curved form is manifestly derived frqm a stone original, and is closely
related to the Egyptian ' baggy alabastra' which were imported into Crete and copied there
in pottery at the beginning of the Late Minoan period (Preliistoric Tombs of Knossos, p. 147,
fig. 125). The earliest Minoan vase of the squat shape is probably the bowl from Erment,
A 651. Five alabaster examples were found in the Throne Room at Knossos (L.M. II) near
an oil-jar (B.S.A., vi, p. 41) ; a later one in pottery, precisely similar to A 104.1, was found in
the Little Palace at Knossos also in association with a shrine {Tomb of the Double Axes, etc.,
p. 87.) It seems likely, therefore, that these were ritual vessels, adapted to the safe handling of
oil (like the later Greek ' kothou '). The marine character of their decoration was probably due
to the same sacred use (see A 881, A 1015, notes). A similar form, also with marine decoration,
is shown in an M.M. II vase from the Kamares Cave {B.S.A., xix, pi. IX). In most of the
141
A 810.
A 811.
knobs, the holes are arranged in four rows, and
there is a hollow, conical foot. (Fig. 186.)
FIRE-BOWL. Ht. 2-1 in., diam. 5 in. Tomb 38.
Presented, 1872. M. V., p. 17, no. 65L
Clay and fabric as before ; in shape, a shallow
hemispherical dish. In the bottom is pierced a
series of 57 holes, averaging \ in. diameter,
arranged close together in a spiral coil. These
holes have been carelessly punched from outside
when the clay was still soft, and a high ridge
remains round the edge of each inside. (Fig. 187.)
= A 803.
TRIPOD BOWL. Ht. 10 in. Tomb 16. Presented, 1S72.
M.V., pi. vii., 38; p. 12; Dumont and Chaplain, Ce'ramique de la
Grece Profire, pi. iii., 4 ; Perrot and Chipiez, Hist., vi, p. 919.
Shape as A 801, but with a flanged shoulder and
round loop handle arched high over the mouth. Good
fabric: dark red clay with light yellow slip and red
varnish. On the shoulder, which is more sharply offset
than in the roughly-made braziers, is a band containing
two pairs of conjoined spirals on each side, the angles between them being
filled with crosses. On the handles are narrow bars between two broad lines ;
on the body, plain bands.
Plate X.
A 812-4. Squat Globular Bowls.
The body is broad and shallow, with flat or convex base, at the edge of
which the sides turn sharply inwards and rise in a low convex curve to a small
mouth ; the lip is turned over outwards. On the upper part of the shoulder are
three small loop handles set horizontally. The design, which seems always to
have a marine subject, occupies the whole of the convex shoulder ; there are
usually two or three plain bands below the design, forming a border to the
base, and the base usually bears in this period two groups of concentric bands.
The lip and handles are painted black.
The flat, bluntly curved form is manifestly derived frqm a stone original, and is closely
related to the Egyptian ' baggy alabastra' which were imported into Crete and copied there
in pottery at the beginning of the Late Minoan period (Preliistoric Tombs of Knossos, p. 147,
fig. 125). The earliest Minoan vase of the squat shape is probably the bowl from Erment,
A 651. Five alabaster examples were found in the Throne Room at Knossos (L.M. II) near
an oil-jar (B.S.A., vi, p. 41) ; a later one in pottery, precisely similar to A 104.1, was found in
the Little Palace at Knossos also in association with a shrine {Tomb of the Double Axes, etc.,
p. 87.) It seems likely, therefore, that these were ritual vessels, adapted to the safe handling of
oil (like the later Greek ' kothou '). The marine character of their decoration was probably due
to the same sacred use (see A 881, A 1015, notes). A similar form, also with marine decoration,
is shown in an M.M. II vase from the Kamares Cave {B.S.A., xix, pi. IX). In most of the