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PREHISTORIC AEGEAN POTTERY.
preceding, but with two strips of irregular hatching, and no circles on the base.
(Fig. 191.)
A 820.
A 821.
• SQUAT BOWL, with two handles. Hi. 3^ in. Tomb 31.
pi. xi, 67 ; p. 14. One handle broken.
Light brown clay, brown-black varnish. Shape
bevelled lip and only two handles ; on the lower part of
the shoulder is a band of single loops set with the open
ends upwards ; on the body, broad bands.
SQUAT BOWL, with two handles.' Ht. 6 in. Tomb. 13.
Presented, 1872. M.V., p. 11, no. 36a.
Shape as last, but the body is still taller and the
shoulder curves upwards to the mouth in a high neck.
Rough ware, dull brown clay and varnish ; decoration
of plain bands, with a waved line on shoulder. No
circles on base. (Fig. 192.)
[The degraded form and fabric of this piece and its simple linear decoration,
the sub-Mycenaean style, are indications of very late date. This pottery may be
Late Mycenaean B, with the vases from Calymnos and elsewhere (A 1001, etc.) ]
A 822-38.
A 822.
Presented, 1872. M.V., Plate X.
as A 817, but with
Fig. 192
approaching
classified as
Three-handled Jars.
Tall shape ; the shoulder has a spherical curve, and the body tapers straight
to the foot, or is more or less contracted in a hollow curve ; the foot is spread in a
roll or aflat or bevelled flange. The neck is cylindrical and has a wide projecting
rim ; at the base of the neck is sometimes a raised moulding. On the shoulder
are three flat or ribbed loop handles set vertically at equal distances from each
other. The decorative designs are applied in a broad or narrow band on the
shoulder, broken into three panels by the handles, and on the lip. Above and
below this design the shoulder is bordered by a group of two or more girding-
lines ; there is usually a similar group on the body between shoulder and foot.
The foot and neck are painted black ; the handles are also painted, and the
base of each is encircled by a ring of colour.
For the Middle Minoan origin of the shape see the Cretan jars A 738, A 740. Early
types have wide mouth, short neck, high shoulder, small handles, and tapered body ; but the
contracted body was fully developed in the L.M. II (' Palace ') style. In its earliest scheme
the decoration embraced the whole body of the vase ; it was afterwards restricted more and
more towards the upper part, until in the latest examples the design occupies a shoulder-band
no wider than the handles. Deep painting of the foot and complete filling of the space between
foot and shoulder with girding-bands are also a mark of early date in the Late Mycenaean
period, as is also the survival of decorative patterns on the lip.
THREE-HANDLED JAR. Ht. 17 in. Tomb A. M.V., pi. i, 1 ; p. 5 ; Dumont and Plate XI-
Chaplain. Cdram., pi. iii., 18; Perrot and Chipiez, Hist., vi, p. 915. One side of neck and
shoulder wanting.
Tapering shape ; red clay with yellow surface and red-black varnish. On
PREHISTORIC AEGEAN POTTERY.
preceding, but with two strips of irregular hatching, and no circles on the base.
(Fig. 191.)
A 820.
A 821.
• SQUAT BOWL, with two handles. Hi. 3^ in. Tomb 31.
pi. xi, 67 ; p. 14. One handle broken.
Light brown clay, brown-black varnish. Shape
bevelled lip and only two handles ; on the lower part of
the shoulder is a band of single loops set with the open
ends upwards ; on the body, broad bands.
SQUAT BOWL, with two handles.' Ht. 6 in. Tomb. 13.
Presented, 1872. M.V., p. 11, no. 36a.
Shape as last, but the body is still taller and the
shoulder curves upwards to the mouth in a high neck.
Rough ware, dull brown clay and varnish ; decoration
of plain bands, with a waved line on shoulder. No
circles on base. (Fig. 192.)
[The degraded form and fabric of this piece and its simple linear decoration,
the sub-Mycenaean style, are indications of very late date. This pottery may be
Late Mycenaean B, with the vases from Calymnos and elsewhere (A 1001, etc.) ]
A 822-38.
A 822.
Presented, 1872. M.V., Plate X.
as A 817, but with
Fig. 192
approaching
classified as
Three-handled Jars.
Tall shape ; the shoulder has a spherical curve, and the body tapers straight
to the foot, or is more or less contracted in a hollow curve ; the foot is spread in a
roll or aflat or bevelled flange. The neck is cylindrical and has a wide projecting
rim ; at the base of the neck is sometimes a raised moulding. On the shoulder
are three flat or ribbed loop handles set vertically at equal distances from each
other. The decorative designs are applied in a broad or narrow band on the
shoulder, broken into three panels by the handles, and on the lip. Above and
below this design the shoulder is bordered by a group of two or more girding-
lines ; there is usually a similar group on the body between shoulder and foot.
The foot and neck are painted black ; the handles are also painted, and the
base of each is encircled by a ring of colour.
For the Middle Minoan origin of the shape see the Cretan jars A 738, A 740. Early
types have wide mouth, short neck, high shoulder, small handles, and tapered body ; but the
contracted body was fully developed in the L.M. II (' Palace ') style. In its earliest scheme
the decoration embraced the whole body of the vase ; it was afterwards restricted more and
more towards the upper part, until in the latest examples the design occupies a shoulder-band
no wider than the handles. Deep painting of the foot and complete filling of the space between
foot and shoulder with girding-bands are also a mark of early date in the Late Mycenaean
period, as is also the survival of decorative patterns on the lip.
THREE-HANDLED JAR. Ht. 17 in. Tomb A. M.V., pi. i, 1 ; p. 5 ; Dumont and Plate XI-
Chaplain. Cdram., pi. iii., 18; Perrot and Chipiez, Hist., vi, p. 915. One side of neck and
shoulder wanting.
Tapering shape ; red clay with yellow surface and red-black varnish. On