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i86 NEOLITHIC POTTERY OF SOUTH RUSSIA
The central line too seems to be continued in the Neo-
lithic remains at Volo in Thessaly.1
It is not meant to suggest that the pottery over the
whole of this area is of the same type.2 It is indeed
not easy to tell what some of the types are like, as few of
them are published in colours, and the originals are
scattered over half the museums of Central Europe.3
There is, to the best of my knowledge, not a fragment
of the kind in any museum in Great Britain, except a
few specimens of Professor Tsountas's discoveries at
Volo, and even Athens has got nothing but this Volo
pottery. The best representative collection is probably
in the Natural History Museum at Vienna, and it is
thither that archaeologists must make their pilgrimage,
unless the museums of Central Europe, as indeed would
be a most graceful act, send of their bounty to Athens.
It will be necessary that some archaeologist who has the
designs and processes of Minoan pottery at his finger-
ends—if possible, one of the Cretan excavators them-
selves—should go the round of Central Europe and make
a careful study of the originals before any final opinion
can be passed on them. The following account is given
tentatively and with all reserve. It is not yet clear what
are the principles of classification that correspond to
differences of date and locality. We may agree, for
instance, with Dr. Hoernes 4 that Dr. Wosinsky 5 is
not justified in classing together all kinds of incised
pottery with white filling, and regarding it as a true dif-
ferentia ; but we must remember that Dr. Hoernes's own
1 Discovered at Dimini and Scsklo by Tsountas. For a short
account see Von Stern, op. cit. pp. 82-3.
2 So Von Stern, op. cit. p. 84, admits that in the western
portion of the area the differences are more than the points of
contact.
3 E.g. Kief, Odessa, Lemberg, Szegzard, Klauscnburg ( = Kolo-
svar), Vienna, Sarajevo, the Louvre (finds of Jortan), and the chief
museums of the Balkan states.
* Op. cit. pp. 36-8. 0 I.K. 1904.
The central line too seems to be continued in the Neo-
lithic remains at Volo in Thessaly.1
It is not meant to suggest that the pottery over the
whole of this area is of the same type.2 It is indeed
not easy to tell what some of the types are like, as few of
them are published in colours, and the originals are
scattered over half the museums of Central Europe.3
There is, to the best of my knowledge, not a fragment
of the kind in any museum in Great Britain, except a
few specimens of Professor Tsountas's discoveries at
Volo, and even Athens has got nothing but this Volo
pottery. The best representative collection is probably
in the Natural History Museum at Vienna, and it is
thither that archaeologists must make their pilgrimage,
unless the museums of Central Europe, as indeed would
be a most graceful act, send of their bounty to Athens.
It will be necessary that some archaeologist who has the
designs and processes of Minoan pottery at his finger-
ends—if possible, one of the Cretan excavators them-
selves—should go the round of Central Europe and make
a careful study of the originals before any final opinion
can be passed on them. The following account is given
tentatively and with all reserve. It is not yet clear what
are the principles of classification that correspond to
differences of date and locality. We may agree, for
instance, with Dr. Hoernes 4 that Dr. Wosinsky 5 is
not justified in classing together all kinds of incised
pottery with white filling, and regarding it as a true dif-
ferentia ; but we must remember that Dr. Hoernes's own
1 Discovered at Dimini and Scsklo by Tsountas. For a short
account see Von Stern, op. cit. pp. 82-3.
2 So Von Stern, op. cit. p. 84, admits that in the western
portion of the area the differences are more than the points of
contact.
3 E.g. Kief, Odessa, Lemberg, Szegzard, Klauscnburg ( = Kolo-
svar), Vienna, Sarajevo, the Louvre (finds of Jortan), and the chief
museums of the Balkan states.
* Op. cit. pp. 36-8. 0 I.K. 1904.