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THE PALACE OF MINOS, ETC.
and red colouring of this class and its geometrical designs, divided into
panels, show a decided sympathy with the Helladic group to which F g. 406, a, b
belong, the inclusion of the purplish red bands within black borders affording
a specially significant point of comparison. Some cross suggestion from the
Eastern shores of the Aegean may perhaps be ultimately recognized in the
case of these antlered griffins of Helladic art.
Bird type The high-beaked ewer, Fig. 405 a, b, supplies the typological antecedent
evdved of a group of Melian pots including the Repository type d and belonging to
in Meios. the succeeding phase of the Third Middle Cycladic Period, answering to the
latter part of M. M. Ill, in which the neck is pulled further back and the
body is more full-bellied. On these vessels, which belong to more than one
class, and on a parallel series of cups, jugs, and bowls from Melos,1 the
metamorphosis into the bird type is completed, the hooked beak and the
coils about the neck, however, still preserving reminiscences of the griffin
and, more remotely, of the head of the Sacred Hawk of Egypt.2 In the
Repository examples (see Fig. 405 a) these bird-griffin features are grouped
round large red to brown disks, recalling those of this class of Melian
ware," and are apparently derived from the characteristic disks of M. M. I
pottery. This bird-type with the long tail feathers is found at Phylakopi
itselfi and on one of the varieties of the bird-vases from the Shaft Graves
(Fig. 405 b).5 In the other variety, better represented in those Graves (Fig.
405 c''), the tail assumes a different shape, and seems to imitate the con-
ventional outline of fishes' tails as seen on somewhat earlier Melian pottery.7
1 Phylakopi, PI. XVI, 4, 20. found according to Dr. Mackenzie, who took
2 See below, p. 709 and Fig. 533. part in its excavation, in a mature Middle
:t The technique differs somewhat in the case Cycladic III stratum answering to the later
of the Repository specimens. The disks are not phase of M. M. III.
hand-polished red as those from Phylakopi and 5 The ' pheasant' tail has been added, as
the Shaft Graves. At the same time they show a fragment with that feature was ascribed by
the darker circle round the central disk. Furtwangler to this vase. (F. u. L., Myk.
In Dr. Mackenzie's opinion, however, they Thongef., p. 8, PI. X, 45, 45 a.) This Shaft
are undoubtedly of Melian fabric and of the Grave type of bird differs from that of the
same period as the similar vessels presenting Repository vases in the indication of a fore wing,
the true ' black and red ' style. 8 The ' bird vases' from the Shaft Graves
4 Phylakopi, PI. XXI, 5,10, &c. A fragment differ in clay and fabric from those of Phylakopi,
of a jar of the Repository type is shown in but must in any case stand in the closest
Fig. 12. In 10 we see the characteristic relation with Melos. Another variety of bird
' pheasant' tail and the large ruddy disk on the vase with a more fantastic tail was found at
side as seen on the Shaft Grave vases. A Thera (Dumont et Chaplain, Les Ce'ramiqiies
specimen of a large jug of the spherical^ 'Shaft de la Grecepropre, Vol. I, Fig. 33.
Grave' type, now set up in the Museum at 7 Edgar, Phylakopi, PI. XVIII, 5, and
Athens (see Edgar, op. at., p. 159, n. 2) was p. 117. This earlier Melian class is referred by
THE PALACE OF MINOS, ETC.
and red colouring of this class and its geometrical designs, divided into
panels, show a decided sympathy with the Helladic group to which F g. 406, a, b
belong, the inclusion of the purplish red bands within black borders affording
a specially significant point of comparison. Some cross suggestion from the
Eastern shores of the Aegean may perhaps be ultimately recognized in the
case of these antlered griffins of Helladic art.
Bird type The high-beaked ewer, Fig. 405 a, b, supplies the typological antecedent
evdved of a group of Melian pots including the Repository type d and belonging to
in Meios. the succeeding phase of the Third Middle Cycladic Period, answering to the
latter part of M. M. Ill, in which the neck is pulled further back and the
body is more full-bellied. On these vessels, which belong to more than one
class, and on a parallel series of cups, jugs, and bowls from Melos,1 the
metamorphosis into the bird type is completed, the hooked beak and the
coils about the neck, however, still preserving reminiscences of the griffin
and, more remotely, of the head of the Sacred Hawk of Egypt.2 In the
Repository examples (see Fig. 405 a) these bird-griffin features are grouped
round large red to brown disks, recalling those of this class of Melian
ware," and are apparently derived from the characteristic disks of M. M. I
pottery. This bird-type with the long tail feathers is found at Phylakopi
itselfi and on one of the varieties of the bird-vases from the Shaft Graves
(Fig. 405 b).5 In the other variety, better represented in those Graves (Fig.
405 c''), the tail assumes a different shape, and seems to imitate the con-
ventional outline of fishes' tails as seen on somewhat earlier Melian pottery.7
1 Phylakopi, PI. XVI, 4, 20. found according to Dr. Mackenzie, who took
2 See below, p. 709 and Fig. 533. part in its excavation, in a mature Middle
:t The technique differs somewhat in the case Cycladic III stratum answering to the later
of the Repository specimens. The disks are not phase of M. M. III.
hand-polished red as those from Phylakopi and 5 The ' pheasant' tail has been added, as
the Shaft Graves. At the same time they show a fragment with that feature was ascribed by
the darker circle round the central disk. Furtwangler to this vase. (F. u. L., Myk.
In Dr. Mackenzie's opinion, however, they Thongef., p. 8, PI. X, 45, 45 a.) This Shaft
are undoubtedly of Melian fabric and of the Grave type of bird differs from that of the
same period as the similar vessels presenting Repository vases in the indication of a fore wing,
the true ' black and red ' style. 8 The ' bird vases' from the Shaft Graves
4 Phylakopi, PI. XXI, 5,10, &c. A fragment differ in clay and fabric from those of Phylakopi,
of a jar of the Repository type is shown in but must in any case stand in the closest
Fig. 12. In 10 we see the characteristic relation with Melos. Another variety of bird
' pheasant' tail and the large ruddy disk on the vase with a more fantastic tail was found at
side as seen on the Shaft Grave vases. A Thera (Dumont et Chaplain, Les Ce'ramiqiies
specimen of a large jug of the spherical^ 'Shaft de la Grecepropre, Vol. I, Fig. 33.
Grave' type, now set up in the Museum at 7 Edgar, Phylakopi, PI. XVIII, 5, and
Athens (see Edgar, op. at., p. 159, n. 2) was p. 117. This earlier Melian class is referred by