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THE PALACE OF MINOS, ETC.
Varie-
gated
Stone-
ware
main
inspirer
of Cera-
mic Poly
chromy.
recurring- decorative feature of the vessels from this Palace store.1 In
Grave VI, again, together with a fragment of 'tortoise-shell ripple ware'
of the fine Middle Minoan class,2 was found the peculiar type of two-handled
jar (Fig. 441),3 both in shape and in the rippled band 4 round the shoulders
approaching a unique ' Repository vessel, which, however, has three short
feet \5 It has matt red bands.
As to the individual sources of the pottery of the Third Middle Minoan
style found at Mycenae, Tiryns, Orchomenos, and other sites of Mainland
Greece it is often premature to judge.
Some of it points to local centres of
Cretan manufactures as yet uexplored .
On the other hand, the close comparisons
that it is possible to establish with certain
types from the Temple Repositories and
other Palace deposits makes it legiti-
mate to infer that, as in the case of
the faience inlays and other imported
objects, a certain prportion of the
M. M. Ill pottery found in connexion
with the Shaft Graves was actually
of Knossian origin.
The imitations of cut breccia and
conglomerate such as we see in the
Knossian ' washing basin ', Fig. 438, and
the Repository jar, Plate VII, bring
home to us once more the interesting
fact that the attempt to reproduce the
effects of variegated stone-ware had been a main inspirer oi the rise of
Fig. 441
Painted Jar from
Grave VI.
1 Furtwangler, Myk. Thongefdsse, PI. VII, 41.
His description, p. 7, applies word for word to
the corresponding vases of the ' Repository'
type (Fig. 404p. 557 above). ' Der Thon ist
sehr grob und inwendig rot gebrannt. Das
Schwarz des Grundes ist fast ohne Glanz, das
Weiss sehr diinn aufgetragen.'
2 Not later probably than the early part of
M. M. III. It shows this decoration in a much
purer form than that of Fig. 441.
3 Furtwangler, Mykenische Thongefasse^X. XI
and p. 8. It has a pale ground and yellowish-
brown glaze bands, over which is dull white
and red decoration.
4 The rippled ornament on both these jars
is of the late degenerate type that characterizes
the close of M. M. Ill and the earliest phase
of L. M. I.
5 See above, Fig. 404. The footless form
recurs as an early L. M. I type at Pseira
(Seager, Pseira, p. 22, Fig. 6). Here the
tortoise-shell band is lowered and plants spring
from its upper border.
THE PALACE OF MINOS, ETC.
Varie-
gated
Stone-
ware
main
inspirer
of Cera-
mic Poly
chromy.
recurring- decorative feature of the vessels from this Palace store.1 In
Grave VI, again, together with a fragment of 'tortoise-shell ripple ware'
of the fine Middle Minoan class,2 was found the peculiar type of two-handled
jar (Fig. 441),3 both in shape and in the rippled band 4 round the shoulders
approaching a unique ' Repository vessel, which, however, has three short
feet \5 It has matt red bands.
As to the individual sources of the pottery of the Third Middle Minoan
style found at Mycenae, Tiryns, Orchomenos, and other sites of Mainland
Greece it is often premature to judge.
Some of it points to local centres of
Cretan manufactures as yet uexplored .
On the other hand, the close comparisons
that it is possible to establish with certain
types from the Temple Repositories and
other Palace deposits makes it legiti-
mate to infer that, as in the case of
the faience inlays and other imported
objects, a certain prportion of the
M. M. Ill pottery found in connexion
with the Shaft Graves was actually
of Knossian origin.
The imitations of cut breccia and
conglomerate such as we see in the
Knossian ' washing basin ', Fig. 438, and
the Repository jar, Plate VII, bring
home to us once more the interesting
fact that the attempt to reproduce the
effects of variegated stone-ware had been a main inspirer oi the rise of
Fig. 441
Painted Jar from
Grave VI.
1 Furtwangler, Myk. Thongefdsse, PI. VII, 41.
His description, p. 7, applies word for word to
the corresponding vases of the ' Repository'
type (Fig. 404p. 557 above). ' Der Thon ist
sehr grob und inwendig rot gebrannt. Das
Schwarz des Grundes ist fast ohne Glanz, das
Weiss sehr diinn aufgetragen.'
2 Not later probably than the early part of
M. M. III. It shows this decoration in a much
purer form than that of Fig. 441.
3 Furtwangler, Mykenische Thongefasse^X. XI
and p. 8. It has a pale ground and yellowish-
brown glaze bands, over which is dull white
and red decoration.
4 The rippled ornament on both these jars
is of the late degenerate type that characterizes
the close of M. M. Ill and the earliest phase
of L. M. I.
5 See above, Fig. 404. The footless form
recurs as an early L. M. I type at Pseira
(Seager, Pseira, p. 22, Fig. 6). Here the
tortoise-shell band is lowered and plants spring
from its upper border.