INFLUENCE OF M. M. Ill a POLYCHROMY
earlier M. M. Ill phase, a. A fragment of tortoise-shell ripple ware illustrates
a normal fabric of the fine earl)- class that goes back to the same epoch.
This fragment, also from the Fourth Grave,1 is of undoubted Cretan fabric,
d e f
Fig. 14. Painted Sherds from Fourth Shaft Grave {a, l>, c, d, e,f as arranged
from left to right).
and must be regarded as an import of not later date than the last part of the
seventeenth century b. c. The special parallelism noteworthy in several
cases between the Shaft-Grave2 pottery and that found in the Temple
Repositories" at Knossos is enhanced by the recurrence of similar imported
1 Myk. Thongefasse, PL V, 29. Furtwangler, qp. cit., PI. XI; P. of M., i,
2 See P. of M., i, p. 600, and n. 2. p. 600, Fig. 441.
3 e.g. the painted jar from] Grave VI.
earlier M. M. Ill phase, a. A fragment of tortoise-shell ripple ware illustrates
a normal fabric of the fine earl)- class that goes back to the same epoch.
This fragment, also from the Fourth Grave,1 is of undoubted Cretan fabric,
d e f
Fig. 14. Painted Sherds from Fourth Shaft Grave {a, l>, c, d, e,f as arranged
from left to right).
and must be regarded as an import of not later date than the last part of the
seventeenth century b. c. The special parallelism noteworthy in several
cases between the Shaft-Grave2 pottery and that found in the Temple
Repositories" at Knossos is enhanced by the recurrence of similar imported
1 Myk. Thongefasse, PL V, 29. Furtwangler, qp. cit., PI. XI; P. of M., i,
2 See P. of M., i, p. 600, and n. 2. p. 600, Fig. 441.
3 e.g. the painted jar from] Grave VI.