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M. M. Ill: THE PALACE POTTERY STORES 559
and the clay stoppers of vessels with liquid contents may have been directly
impressed. The griffin as a guardian of treasure was naturally adapted for
use on such official signets 1 and various representations of the monster are in
fact found among the seal impressions of this epoch.2 Another obvious sacral
type was the Double Axe, and evidence will be given below that a specially
sphragistic form of this, exemplified by the hieroglyphic sealings of Knossos,
did in fact give origin to a curious class of
winged goblins that appear on Melian
ewers of the immediately preceding epoch."
A parallel griffin type from the same
source with a less outstretched action made
its way about the same epoch across the
Aegean, in this case too, doubtless, through
Cycladic adaptations. In the secondary as-
pect of this, which alone has been preserved
to us, the hind as well as the fore legs of
the prototype are still traceable but the
wings have been interpreted as antlers.
Two vessels showing variations of this type and probably of Mainland fabric
were found in the Shaft Graves of Mycenae, Fig. 400, a and b, the latter only
recently put together by Mr. Wace from Schliemann's fragments.4 The
antler-like excrescences from the back of the heads recall suggestive parallels
presented by the figures of stags on vases of a widely diffused Anatolian
class of painted pottery of which a fragmentary specimen from Kara Euyuk
in Cappadocia 5 is given for comparison in Fig. 407. Both the matt black
Sphra-
gistic
origin of
Melian
winged
goblins.
Antlered
monsters
on parallel
Helladic
Class of
vases.
Fig. 407. Cappadocian Vase
Fragment.
Anatolian
parallels.
1 On a Late Minoan lentoid seal to be
described in a later Section, two guardian
griffins stand on either side of a Cereal sign
which recurs on a series of clay inventories of
the Linear Class B referring to the grain stores
of the Later Palace at Knossos.
2 See below, p. 712.
3 See below, p. 704 and Fig. 527.
4 I am greatly indebted to Mr. Wace for
supplying me with this comparison. One sherd
was given in F. u. L., Myk. Vasen., p. 55, Fig. 32.
5 Chantre, Mission en Cappadoce, PI. XI, r.
For the geometrical decoration of the Anatolian
class Dr. Mackenzie, in an as yet unpublished
monograph, proposes the term 'Hither-Asiatic
Metope Style'. This ceramic class extends
through Syria to Canaan, where it survived to
form the base of the later Philistine wares in
which it blended with Minoan elements (cf.
Mackenzie, in Afe'moires, Delegation en Perse,
xiii, p. 79, n. 7). It also presents unquestion-
able affinities with the Second Style of Flam.
(See E. Pottier, Delegation en Perse, xiii, p. 67
seqq.) For the Anatolian province, see Myres,
The Early Pot Fabrics of Asia Minor {Journ.
Anthr. Inst., xxxiii, p. 377 seqq.). This ' matt'
paint style which has such very early roots in
Elam and extends to the Anau oasis in
Turkestan, some 300 miles east of the Caspian
(Pumpelly, Expl, in Turkestan, 1904; Pre-
historic Civ. of Anau, 2 vols.. 1908), is circum-
Pontic in its distribution.
and the clay stoppers of vessels with liquid contents may have been directly
impressed. The griffin as a guardian of treasure was naturally adapted for
use on such official signets 1 and various representations of the monster are in
fact found among the seal impressions of this epoch.2 Another obvious sacral
type was the Double Axe, and evidence will be given below that a specially
sphragistic form of this, exemplified by the hieroglyphic sealings of Knossos,
did in fact give origin to a curious class of
winged goblins that appear on Melian
ewers of the immediately preceding epoch."
A parallel griffin type from the same
source with a less outstretched action made
its way about the same epoch across the
Aegean, in this case too, doubtless, through
Cycladic adaptations. In the secondary as-
pect of this, which alone has been preserved
to us, the hind as well as the fore legs of
the prototype are still traceable but the
wings have been interpreted as antlers.
Two vessels showing variations of this type and probably of Mainland fabric
were found in the Shaft Graves of Mycenae, Fig. 400, a and b, the latter only
recently put together by Mr. Wace from Schliemann's fragments.4 The
antler-like excrescences from the back of the heads recall suggestive parallels
presented by the figures of stags on vases of a widely diffused Anatolian
class of painted pottery of which a fragmentary specimen from Kara Euyuk
in Cappadocia 5 is given for comparison in Fig. 407. Both the matt black
Sphra-
gistic
origin of
Melian
winged
goblins.
Antlered
monsters
on parallel
Helladic
Class of
vases.
Fig. 407. Cappadocian Vase
Fragment.
Anatolian
parallels.
1 On a Late Minoan lentoid seal to be
described in a later Section, two guardian
griffins stand on either side of a Cereal sign
which recurs on a series of clay inventories of
the Linear Class B referring to the grain stores
of the Later Palace at Knossos.
2 See below, p. 712.
3 See below, p. 704 and Fig. 527.
4 I am greatly indebted to Mr. Wace for
supplying me with this comparison. One sherd
was given in F. u. L., Myk. Vasen., p. 55, Fig. 32.
5 Chantre, Mission en Cappadoce, PI. XI, r.
For the geometrical decoration of the Anatolian
class Dr. Mackenzie, in an as yet unpublished
monograph, proposes the term 'Hither-Asiatic
Metope Style'. This ceramic class extends
through Syria to Canaan, where it survived to
form the base of the later Philistine wares in
which it blended with Minoan elements (cf.
Mackenzie, in Afe'moires, Delegation en Perse,
xiii, p. 79, n. 7). It also presents unquestion-
able affinities with the Second Style of Flam.
(See E. Pottier, Delegation en Perse, xiii, p. 67
seqq.) For the Anatolian province, see Myres,
The Early Pot Fabrics of Asia Minor {Journ.
Anthr. Inst., xxxiii, p. 377 seqq.). This ' matt'
paint style which has such very early roots in
Elam and extends to the Anau oasis in
Turkestan, some 300 miles east of the Caspian
(Pumpelly, Expl, in Turkestan, 1904; Pre-
historic Civ. of Anau, 2 vols.. 1908), is circum-
Pontic in its distribution.