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Knossos
Excavations,
1903.
65
four sides of this exhibit deeply incised matrices for casting small decora-
tive objects of the same kind as those of the present deposit. The calibre
and high relief of some of these show that they could not have been—
as were apparently the stone matrices found at Mycenae—used for em-
bossed metal work or for the comparatively small objects in glass paste
which characterise the mature Mycenaean industry.1 There can be no
reasonable doubt that they were made to mould the paste for inlays and
reliefs in the native faience.
The mould in question shows on one side (see Fig. 42) a group of small
objects including a trochus shell,"2 sections of jointed trumpet shells which
rather recall specimens from the oolite or cretaceous beds3 than any recent
species, a part of a spiral bracelet, a semilunar plaque resembling a faience
' The lowermost matrix on the mould figured by Schliemann {Mycenae, p. 107, No. 162) seems
to have been made for a glass paste object of a kind representing a degeneration of the console
shown below, Fig. 43.
- Similar shells in glass paste have been found in tombs of the Lower Town at Mycenae.
'■' E.g. Ptyehoceras gaultinus, a cretaceous species.
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Excavations,
1903.
65
four sides of this exhibit deeply incised matrices for casting small decora-
tive objects of the same kind as those of the present deposit. The calibre
and high relief of some of these show that they could not have been—
as were apparently the stone matrices found at Mycenae—used for em-
bossed metal work or for the comparatively small objects in glass paste
which characterise the mature Mycenaean industry.1 There can be no
reasonable doubt that they were made to mould the paste for inlays and
reliefs in the native faience.
The mould in question shows on one side (see Fig. 42) a group of small
objects including a trochus shell,"2 sections of jointed trumpet shells which
rather recall specimens from the oolite or cretaceous beds3 than any recent
species, a part of a spiral bracelet, a semilunar plaque resembling a faience
' The lowermost matrix on the mould figured by Schliemann {Mycenae, p. 107, No. 162) seems
to have been made for a glass paste object of a kind representing a degeneration of the console
shown below, Fig. 43.
- Similar shells in glass paste have been found in tombs of the Lower Town at Mycenae.
'■' E.g. Ptyehoceras gaultinus, a cretaceous species.
f