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M.M. Ill: SURVIVALS OF CERAMIC POLYCHROMY 599

recur, as will be seen, in c and e, representing parts of a large jar, grouped Coiled
with some polychrome fragments from the same Grave in Fig. 440.1 The sherds of
decoration in this case was white on the dark around ; the other fragments Mycenae

& & Shaft

Grave.

d e f

Fig. 440. a-f. M. M, III Sherds from Fourth Shaft Grave at Mycenae.

here represented show crimson or reddish purple patterns on the charac-
teristic M. M. Ill lilac-brown around.

The rim of this jar and the handle and part of the rim of the polychrome shaft
ewer, Fig. 440, fy are entirely in keeping with forms from the Temple Reposi-
tories, while in Grave V were found the remains of one or more iuas with paralleled

b Re

broad white spiral bands on the rough dark-glazed ground, the most frequently positories.

From Furtwangler, Mykenische Thongefasse, PI. VI.