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the 'ivy' leaves, A 654 (Knossos, L.M.I); Gournia, pi. IX; Palaikastro, fig. 27, pi. XIII,
etc. ; and E. H. Hall, Decorative Art of Crete, pp. 25, 37.]

A 7701-2. FRAGMENTS with crested bands. L. 3!- in. to 3 in. From Mycenae. Each bears a

band of three Wavy lines with a double crest on each outward wave. (Fig. 174.)

[This curious motive was certainly used to represent the ground, perhaps with growing
plants, in designs of the 'landscape' class like those to which the last fragments belonged.
See especially vases 12 and 15 from Kakovatos, and for a Cretan example, Palaikastro, fig. 35.J

A 771i-4. FRAGMENTS with latticed leaves. L. 3j in. to if in. From Mycenae. These show

parts of plants with broad blunt-ended leaves, as Ath. Mitt., xxxiv, pi. XXIII, 1, and
references there given.

A 772l-s. FRAGMENTS with marine designs. L. 3f in. to i\ in. From Mycenae. Nos. 2-4

have parts of octopus-tentacles fringed with loops, as in A 650 (Palaikastro), with rocky
border ; 5 has spiky figures, perhaps corals, sea-urchins or sponges, set alternately on upper
and lower borders of a narrow band. No. 1, fiom the base of a wide bowl of very brilliant
fabric, has inside argonauts among rocks and seaweed, and outside a row of lily-like plants
with knobbly stems standing on the ground between curved leaves or horns. (Fig. 174.)

[For the prickly objects of 5 see Palace of Minos, i, (ig. 395, a fragment of the M.M. Ill
dolphin fresco at Knossos, and the sherd from the Sixth City at Hissarlik : Schliemanns
Sammlnng, 3435 ; Fimmen, Kretisch-mykenische Kultnr, fig. 79.]

A 7731-3. FRAGMENTS with dotted backgrounds. L. yl in. to 2 in. From Mycenae. No. 1,

from lower part of a bowl like A 753, has the ground above the solid waves filled with regular
rows of dots ; on the base is the end of one arm of a curved cross in double outline. No. 2 has
similar dots and solid wave, and 3 has a lobed cross within a looped border set in a similar
dotted field. (Fig. 174.)

[For the dotted ground see Ath. Mitt., xxxiv (1910), pll. XVIII, XIX, p. 309.]

A 774i-9. FRAGMENTS with dotted lines. L. 4f in. to if in. From Mycenae. The patterns are

either drawn or bordered with lines of dots, as in A 753 ; no. 1 shows the same design as this,
with horned stirrup at top.

A 775l-7. FRAGMENTS with double-a-xe designs. L. 4f in. to if in. From Mycenae. All have

patterns of double-axe blades with pairs of wavy lines between the horns, like A 754, and in
most cases (1-6) rows of dots in the field. The fabrics are various : 3 and 6 have bright red
varnish on light red-brown clay ; 4 is particularly brilliant, varnish black to orange on red-
yellow clay (Fig. 174) ; 5 and 6 have lines of thin white paint on the varnish. No. 1 is from the
neck of a large jar, and 2 also belonged to a large vase.

A 7761-3. FRAGMENT with pendant-ornaments. L. 2f in. to l\ in. From Mycenae. The

pendants are in the form of five-lobed flower-buds ; the three nearer lobes are drawn in full,
with the ends of the other two beneath them. (Fig. 174.) The complete scheme shows such
buds hanging at intervals from looped bands of dots : Att. Mitt., xxxiv, pi. XXIV, 6.

[For Cretan examples see the 'filler,' Palaikastro, fig.40,p. 52, and references there given.
It seems likely, from the strongly stylised forms, that the festoons represent necklaces of flower-
beads, not actual flowers ; and from the sacred character of the designs on Minoan ' fillers,'
that this mode of decoration had a ritual significance. Some beads of this pattern in lapis
lazuli were found by Sir Arthur Evans in the Royal Tomb of Isopata : Prehist. Tombs of
Knossos, p. 152. Minoan shrines were similarly adorned with festoons of beads : Palace of
Minos, i, pp. 445, 494, figs. 320, 353. For the decoration of pots with actual objects see ibid.
p. 269 and A 881, note.]