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246 PROTO-GEOMETRIC SHIP WITH FISH ENSIGN
are seen two seated persons facing one another, one of whom appears to be
a woman. From the position of the steering oar the vessel seems to have
its stern towards the shore, and on it stands a male figure looking towards
two couples, of either sex, beyond. The two, who stand within the door
of a building, seem to be embracing each other ; the female personage
to the left salutes them, as if in the act of saying farewell, but the
interpretation of the subject is still to seek. In view of the successive
episodes woven together on the ' Ring of Nestor' the possibility, however,
cannot be ignored that we have here to do with separate scenes of leave-
taking and actual departure. A certain analogy is presented—though in
Fig. 143.
Sailing Vessel with Rudder and Fish Ensign ; from Fragment of Pyxis
of Proto-geometric Style.
Ship on
Proto-
geo-
metric
Vase
from
Mes-
senian
Pylos.
that case relating to arrival—by the fine ivory relief from Sparta where the
commander is seen stepping off the stern of a warship to greet his spouse
who stands waiting for him on the shore.1
To the Tiryns specimen, which may be probably referred to the second
half of the fourteenth century before our era, must be added a relic of the transi-
tional Age that has some title to be called Achaean. It is the Age when wholly
new elements were being introduced West of the Aegean, representing part
of the process by which the Southern Mainland on that side eventually
became Greek. The restored fragment of a pyxis (Fig. 143) from one of
the later burials of the tholos tomb at the Messenian Pylos2 was associated
with other pottery, which, though in many respects preserving Mycenaean
forms and traditions, bears witness to the coming in of extraneous orna-
1 R. M. Dawkins, B.S.A., xiii (1906-7),
p. 100 seqq. and PL IV (reproduced on p. 252
at the end of this Section). It is there described
as a scene of departure, but the yard seems to
be hauled up, and the captain is clearly step-
ping off. Koster {op. cit., pp. 88-90) rightly
sees in it a scene of arrival.
2 K. Kuruniotis, 'Apx- '£<£•, 1914, p. 109,
Fig. 15. Cf. A. Koster, Das an tike See-
wesen, pp. 64-6 and Fig. 18. Koster
aptly remarks (p. 66) that the presence of
this pointed ram in front of the early Greek
vessels made it necessary to bring the vessel
to land stern forward. This was the Homeric
practice.
are seen two seated persons facing one another, one of whom appears to be
a woman. From the position of the steering oar the vessel seems to have
its stern towards the shore, and on it stands a male figure looking towards
two couples, of either sex, beyond. The two, who stand within the door
of a building, seem to be embracing each other ; the female personage
to the left salutes them, as if in the act of saying farewell, but the
interpretation of the subject is still to seek. In view of the successive
episodes woven together on the ' Ring of Nestor' the possibility, however,
cannot be ignored that we have here to do with separate scenes of leave-
taking and actual departure. A certain analogy is presented—though in
Fig. 143.
Sailing Vessel with Rudder and Fish Ensign ; from Fragment of Pyxis
of Proto-geometric Style.
Ship on
Proto-
geo-
metric
Vase
from
Mes-
senian
Pylos.
that case relating to arrival—by the fine ivory relief from Sparta where the
commander is seen stepping off the stern of a warship to greet his spouse
who stands waiting for him on the shore.1
To the Tiryns specimen, which may be probably referred to the second
half of the fourteenth century before our era, must be added a relic of the transi-
tional Age that has some title to be called Achaean. It is the Age when wholly
new elements were being introduced West of the Aegean, representing part
of the process by which the Southern Mainland on that side eventually
became Greek. The restored fragment of a pyxis (Fig. 143) from one of
the later burials of the tholos tomb at the Messenian Pylos2 was associated
with other pottery, which, though in many respects preserving Mycenaean
forms and traditions, bears witness to the coming in of extraneous orna-
1 R. M. Dawkins, B.S.A., xiii (1906-7),
p. 100 seqq. and PL IV (reproduced on p. 252
at the end of this Section). It is there described
as a scene of departure, but the yard seems to
be hauled up, and the captain is clearly step-
ping off. Koster {op. cit., pp. 88-90) rightly
sees in it a scene of arrival.
2 K. Kuruniotis, 'Apx- '£<£•, 1914, p. 109,
Fig. 15. Cf. A. Koster, Das an tike See-
wesen, pp. 64-6 and Fig. 18. Koster
aptly remarks (p. 66) that the presence of
this pointed ram in front of the early Greek
vessels made it necessary to bring the vessel
to land stern forward. This was the Homeric
practice.