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FALSE-NECKED VASES 89
former name, which is a truer differentia, comes from
the fact that the top of this neck, which is flanked by
the stirrups, is closed, and does not form the mouth
of the vase at all. The liquid is poured from a raised
spout, also on the top of the vase, but separated from
the neck and handles. The type presumably developed
from a vase with two stirrup handles on each side of an
open mouth. With large heavy vases it was a good
arrangement to secure " the straight pull " for carrying ;
but the difficulty of pouring that resulted from the mouth
being so near the hands that held it led to the substitution
of a spout some distance away, like that on our own
kettles.1 The transition may have been easier from the
analogy of the lop-sided " duck " vases of Phylakopi and
elsewhere, with their slanting spouts ; with the removable
lid that probably existed in the original type they must
have looked exactly like an earthenware kettle. The
suggestion,8 however, that the false-necked vase is directly
derived from even this earlier type of " duck " vase is
improbable.
This kind of vase, which on non-Cretan sites is per-
haps the form most closely associated with Mycenaean
remains, and in Crete itself is found in early strata at
both Gournia and Hagia Triada, has been conspicuous
by its absence in the Palace of Knossos. Except for a few
fragments, only one such vase, and that from the Royal
Villa,' has been found during the whole life of the
Palace down to the end of Late Minoan II., although, as
seen in our Strata Section (Plate III.), it suddenly
becomes the prevailing type in the period of partial
1 This point of convenience is well illustrated by the slanting
open mouth of the example from Palaikastro, B.S.A. xi. fig. 12a,
p. 281, which Dawkins places also in L.M. ii.
a Made by Diimmler in Ath. Mitt. 1886, p. 37. Our view
is not quite that of Edgar in Phylakopi, pp. 89, 90, 135. See
ibid. fig. 74, p. 90, and Plate IV. Nos. 6, 8, 13. Also see above,
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3 B.S.A. ix. figs. 87a, 87b, p. 137-
former name, which is a truer differentia, comes from
the fact that the top of this neck, which is flanked by
the stirrups, is closed, and does not form the mouth
of the vase at all. The liquid is poured from a raised
spout, also on the top of the vase, but separated from
the neck and handles. The type presumably developed
from a vase with two stirrup handles on each side of an
open mouth. With large heavy vases it was a good
arrangement to secure " the straight pull " for carrying ;
but the difficulty of pouring that resulted from the mouth
being so near the hands that held it led to the substitution
of a spout some distance away, like that on our own
kettles.1 The transition may have been easier from the
analogy of the lop-sided " duck " vases of Phylakopi and
elsewhere, with their slanting spouts ; with the removable
lid that probably existed in the original type they must
have looked exactly like an earthenware kettle. The
suggestion,8 however, that the false-necked vase is directly
derived from even this earlier type of " duck " vase is
improbable.
This kind of vase, which on non-Cretan sites is per-
haps the form most closely associated with Mycenaean
remains, and in Crete itself is found in early strata at
both Gournia and Hagia Triada, has been conspicuous
by its absence in the Palace of Knossos. Except for a few
fragments, only one such vase, and that from the Royal
Villa,' has been found during the whole life of the
Palace down to the end of Late Minoan II., although, as
seen in our Strata Section (Plate III.), it suddenly
becomes the prevailing type in the period of partial
1 This point of convenience is well illustrated by the slanting
open mouth of the example from Palaikastro, B.S.A. xi. fig. 12a,
p. 281, which Dawkins places also in L.M. ii.
a Made by Diimmler in Ath. Mitt. 1886, p. 37. Our view
is not quite that of Edgar in Phylakopi, pp. 89, 90, 135. See
ibid. fig. 74, p. 90, and Plate IV. Nos. 6, 8, 13. Also see above,
P- 54-
3 B.S.A. ix. figs. 87a, 87b, p. 137-