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'SACRAL' IVY SPRAYS ON L.M. I VASES
487
central shoot and the dots, representing the disks on either side, as shown
on the fresco design (Fig.
285, c) above. In this and
other cases the leaves are
sharplyacuminated at their
extremities, while the lower
margins coil down in a
decorative fashion, but no
longer contain the stellate
flowers seen in the earlier
series. An interesting
variation is supplied by an
'amphora' fragment from
the ' Aetdsthos Tomb' at
Mycenae, where the record
of the upper margin of the
papyrus tuft is preserved
within the leaf by a re-
versed horseshoe (Fig.
295).* This type is of
great archaeological im-
portance since we have
here a parallel to the curved
lines above the central
spikes of the degenerate
sprays on L. M. Ilia
pottery of the Tell-el
Fig. 294. Amphora, L M la, from Old Pylos (Kakova- Amarna stag-e 2
tos) (the Ornament completed). ' . ,
At times, as on the
Knossian specimen (Fig. 291, d), the Kakovatos amphora (Fig. 291, a)3 and
other examples from the Messenian Pylos,4 Mycenae,5 Thebes,6 and else-
Survival
of curved
papyrus
outline
within
ivy-leaf.
1 B. S. A., xxv, PI. XLIX, c.
2 E.g. P.M. Cat., Prehistoric Aegean Pottery,
(E. J. Forsdyke), p. 188, Fig. 269, Tell-el-
Amarna. So, too, from Thebes, 'Apx- 'E<p.,
1909, PI. Ill, 10.
3 Ath. Mitth., xxxiv (1909), PI. XVIII, 2
(here completed).
4 Kuroniotis, 'Ap^. 'E<f>., 1914, p. 115,
Fig- 25 ; who compares a then unpublished
fragment of a large jar from Phylakopi (ibid.,
Fig. 26). It is certainly a Cretan import,
possibly from Knossos.
5 E. g. on a fragment probably of a ' filler '
(according to a note kindly supplied me by
Prof. J. Droop), from the ' Aegisthos ' Tomb,
Mycenae (P. S. A., xxv, PL XLVII, b).
c E. g. on L. M. I b pots from Tomb 26
of the Kolonakion (Keramopoullos. 'Ap^. AcAt.,
487
central shoot and the dots, representing the disks on either side, as shown
on the fresco design (Fig.
285, c) above. In this and
other cases the leaves are
sharplyacuminated at their
extremities, while the lower
margins coil down in a
decorative fashion, but no
longer contain the stellate
flowers seen in the earlier
series. An interesting
variation is supplied by an
'amphora' fragment from
the ' Aetdsthos Tomb' at
Mycenae, where the record
of the upper margin of the
papyrus tuft is preserved
within the leaf by a re-
versed horseshoe (Fig.
295).* This type is of
great archaeological im-
portance since we have
here a parallel to the curved
lines above the central
spikes of the degenerate
sprays on L. M. Ilia
pottery of the Tell-el
Fig. 294. Amphora, L M la, from Old Pylos (Kakova- Amarna stag-e 2
tos) (the Ornament completed). ' . ,
At times, as on the
Knossian specimen (Fig. 291, d), the Kakovatos amphora (Fig. 291, a)3 and
other examples from the Messenian Pylos,4 Mycenae,5 Thebes,6 and else-
Survival
of curved
papyrus
outline
within
ivy-leaf.
1 B. S. A., xxv, PI. XLIX, c.
2 E.g. P.M. Cat., Prehistoric Aegean Pottery,
(E. J. Forsdyke), p. 188, Fig. 269, Tell-el-
Amarna. So, too, from Thebes, 'Apx- 'E<p.,
1909, PI. Ill, 10.
3 Ath. Mitth., xxxiv (1909), PI. XVIII, 2
(here completed).
4 Kuroniotis, 'Ap^. 'E<f>., 1914, p. 115,
Fig- 25 ; who compares a then unpublished
fragment of a large jar from Phylakopi (ibid.,
Fig. 26). It is certainly a Cretan import,
possibly from Knossos.
5 E. g. on a fragment probably of a ' filler '
(according to a note kindly supplied me by
Prof. J. Droop), from the ' Aegisthos ' Tomb,
Mycenae (P. S. A., xxv, PL XLVII, b).
c E. g. on L. M. I b pots from Tomb 26
of the Kolonakion (Keramopoullos. 'Ap^. AcAt.,