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228 THE PAINTED SHERDS FROM HARAGEH

Supplementary Note to § 41 on M. M. II painted sherds from Harageh
(Fayum), Egypt {see Fig. up, p. 212).

a. Barbotine fragment of mature M. M. II a type, black glaze ground with red and white bands

and white S-shaped scrolls connecting the knobs, as on a Knossian specimen of the same
class (Ashm. Mus.). The inside shows a plain clay surface. The clay is of a pale brownish
buff tone.

b. Part of rim and handle of a shallow bowl, showing white connected crescents horizon-

tally arranged on dark brown lustrous ground. The crescents under rim show vertical
red streaks. Inside is the same dark ground, with the point of a white petal. Brownish
buff clay.

c 1 and 2. Perhaps part of a ' bridge spout'. Above, as seen in Fig. c 1, is a disk with two
white concentric circles belonging to the class of imitative rivet heads (see vol. i, p. 192,
Fig. 139, c, d, and p. 193 ; and Fig. 183, b 1, and p. 245), an indication that the prototype
was of metal-work. Three surfaces of this enigmatic fragment are covered with lustrous
black glaze on which are white streaks and white foliation with red stalk and dots. This
latter much resembles the foliate band on the ' hole-mouthed' polychrome vessel illus-
trated for comparison with the Abydos vase, vol. i, p. 268, Fig. 199,«. Brownish buff
clay.

d. (See, too, Fig. 120, a.) Impressed fragment, the surface originally covered with black

lustrous glaze with white and red decoration. The stamped patterns (the surface of
which is still partly covered with the black glaze) are closely related to one that appears
on a polychrome bowl of fine egg-shell ware from Knossos (see above, Fig. 120, b). Dull
brownish buff clay. Thin fabric, approaching egg-shell ware.

e. Small fragment showing white petals radiating from central disk on lustrous black ground.

Compare the Phaestos jug and Kamares fragment, vol. i, p. 267, Fig. 198, a, b. Plain
inside, with black patch. Thin ware as d. Dull brownish buff clay.

f 1 and 2. See Fig. 119. The perforated bulb is covered with vermilion red on the lustrous
black ground with traces of a white ring round. On the upper surface are white bands
overlaid with narrow bands of red on the same ground, and white disks round the
stem or neck. Perhaps the lower part of a funnel, with strainer below and expanding rim
above it to rest on mouth of a vessel to be filled. A M. M. II spout from Knossos,
pierced as a strainer, may be compared with this. Ruddy brown clay.

g. Small fragment with lustrous glaze inside and out. Outside, in white on the dark lus-
trous ground, is part of a curved white pattern and of the ' tennis bat and ball' pattern
characteristic of a Knossian class of mature M. M. II a polychrome ware. See Coloured
Plate IX. Pale brownish buff clay. Fine texture as d and e.

(h is an unpublished sherd from Ka^un. Ashm. Mus.)

Miss Winifred M. Crompton, of the Manchester Museum, has also kindly supplied me with
coloured drawings of fragments of polychrome pottery from Harageh deposited there. Of
these one seems to be a fragment belonging to the same vase as Fig. 119,(5. Another
presents what seems to be part of a palmette ornament, showing the ends of two acuminated
leaves on a dark ground.