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ORIGIN OF 'TWO-STORIED' POTS
as lids, are found in Helladic deposits belonging to the beginning of the Middle Minoan Age *
which stand in a close relation to a slightly earlier Melian class with lustrous paint.2 These
vessels were used as store-jars, but also largely for funereal purposes, as ossuaries. In all of
them the record of the original lower bowl is preserved by the horizontal line and the handles
on the level with its rim.3 In the Helladic group, though not at Melos, the upper story was
also provided with handles, and that this was also the Cretan tradition may be gathered from
Fig. 250,/
In the Aegean predilection for a high ' upper story', a good later parallel on the other side
of the Adriatic is provided in the Villanova urns (see Fig. 250,;', k), to which reference has already
been made. These belong to the latest Bronze and Early Iron Age, but the extension of the
type East of the Adriatic makes it possible that there was an original geographical connexion
with the Aegean World. This extension, indeed, points to a more fundamental relation than
that suggested by the Mycenae pot, Fig. 250, e, the low upper story of which, as already observed,
is contrary to the usual Aegean practice, and seems to be due to an intrusive influence.
1 Tsountas, 'E<p. 'ApX-, 1S95, PI. X 1-7 (Aegina). Cf.
S. Wide, vol. i, p. 346 ; W. Vollgraff, Fouilles d?Argos
{Bull, de Corr. Hell., 1906, p. 20 seqq.).
2 C. C. Edgar, Phylakopi, p. 96 seqq. and PI. VII; R.M.
Dawkins and J. 1'. Droop, B. S. A., xvii, Pis. IV, V and
pp. 7, 9, where it is shown that such jars covered with
shallow bowls (in this case handleless) were used as
ossuaries.
3 This particular Aegean class of two-storied pots
with its high upper story superposed on wide-mouthed
jars is to be distinguished from the still earlier class of
the same kind in which an inward sloping collar is built
up on a comparatively high bowl normally with four
perforated handles—a type imitated in marble. (For
examples see Tsountas, Kvfc\a5iKa \'E<p. 'A/>x , 189S))
PI. IX, 1-6 and cf. PI. X, 16 (marble).)
ORIGIN OF 'TWO-STORIED' POTS
as lids, are found in Helladic deposits belonging to the beginning of the Middle Minoan Age *
which stand in a close relation to a slightly earlier Melian class with lustrous paint.2 These
vessels were used as store-jars, but also largely for funereal purposes, as ossuaries. In all of
them the record of the original lower bowl is preserved by the horizontal line and the handles
on the level with its rim.3 In the Helladic group, though not at Melos, the upper story was
also provided with handles, and that this was also the Cretan tradition may be gathered from
Fig. 250,/
In the Aegean predilection for a high ' upper story', a good later parallel on the other side
of the Adriatic is provided in the Villanova urns (see Fig. 250,;', k), to which reference has already
been made. These belong to the latest Bronze and Early Iron Age, but the extension of the
type East of the Adriatic makes it possible that there was an original geographical connexion
with the Aegean World. This extension, indeed, points to a more fundamental relation than
that suggested by the Mycenae pot, Fig. 250, e, the low upper story of which, as already observed,
is contrary to the usual Aegean practice, and seems to be due to an intrusive influence.
1 Tsountas, 'E<p. 'ApX-, 1S95, PI. X 1-7 (Aegina). Cf.
S. Wide, vol. i, p. 346 ; W. Vollgraff, Fouilles d?Argos
{Bull, de Corr. Hell., 1906, p. 20 seqq.).
2 C. C. Edgar, Phylakopi, p. 96 seqq. and PI. VII; R.M.
Dawkins and J. 1'. Droop, B. S. A., xvii, Pis. IV, V and
pp. 7, 9, where it is shown that such jars covered with
shallow bowls (in this case handleless) were used as
ossuaries.
3 This particular Aegean class of two-storied pots
with its high upper story superposed on wide-mouthed
jars is to be distinguished from the still earlier class of
the same kind in which an inward sloping collar is built
up on a comparatively high bowl normally with four
perforated handles—a type imitated in marble. (For
examples see Tsountas, Kvfc\a5iKa \'E<p. 'A/>x , 189S))
PI. IX, 1-6 and cf. PI. X, 16 (marble).)