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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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LATE MYCENAEAN.

205

A 1072.

A 1073.

A 1074.

FRAGMENT with dotted rosettes.

L. 2u in. The top of a false-necked jar with
design in the handle-ring of five rosettes composed of a ring of dots around a circ
central disc. Dull fabric : whitish clay with open surface and black
(Fig. 288.)

rcle with
varnish, as A io8i,,3.

FRAGMENT of striped jug. L. 2J in. Part of lip, neck and shoulder with the handle
of a small wide-mouthed jug ; decoration of close stripes hanging from a neck-band. Hand-
made, of pale brown clay with open surface ; fairly lustrous brown-black varnish. (Fig. 288.)

[Similar jugs are known from Tiryns (loc. ctL, no. 31), Mycenae {Mycenae, no. 27), and
N'auplia (^/yjfe. Vasen, pi. xv, 102).]

Spout and one handle are wanting. The jar was

triangle with curve-hatched angle and a half-disc

semicircle attached to its base.- On the body is a strongly waved line, probably

TOP of false-necked jar. L. 7J
very large ; within the handle-ring is
within



Al0782

A 1073

Al0774 AI072'

A|07 73 ^"""VU0775

A|0795

Fig. 288.—Fragments of Late Style from Mycenae (Late Mycenaean B).

derived from the arm of an octopus, as in A 1026. The handle is barred ; on top of false neck
are four solid half-discs which make a central reserved curvilinear quadrangle. Coarse clay,
but fairly lustrous varnish.

A 1075i-25. FRAGMENTS of panelled bowls. L. 6} to ij in. From large and small open bowls, as

A953-7 (Ialysos), A 1018-20 (Calymnos) ; some of the largest have flat projecting lips. The
decoration is'contained in a broad band between the deep lip-edging and the lines which gird
the bowl below the handles ; it consists of panels with blank or filled spaces between them.
The panels are usually square and composed of two bounding groups of close vertical lines,
with outer edges plain (1-5), or fringed with single loops (8-10), or concentric semicircles
(11-12) ; the centres of the panels are filled by close horizontal wavy lines (1-2, 6-9, 12), or
groups of concentric semicircles (3-5, 11), or blank opposed semicircles on a filled background
 
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