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METAL VESSELS IN SHAFT GRAVES
forms of Melian ' bird-vases belonging to the Third Middle Cycladic Period
in both deposits.1 The same comparisons extend to the objects in faience,
and there can be little doubt that the specimens found in the Mycenae tombs
came from the Palace factory at Knossos. The faience inlays of a draught-
board, found in the Fourth Shaft Grave, show the same forms and decoration
as fragments of similar inlays from the Western Temple Repository.
Metal Vessels similarly dated.
The vases in precious metals repeat the same story. It has been
already noted that cups with arcaded flutings represent a style of decoration
already imitated in the finest M. M. II polychrome ware. Pedestalled
goblets, such as the plain one-handled cup from Grave IV,2 that with the
embossed lions at a flying gallop from Grave V,3 and that with two handles
terminating in dogs' heads from the neighbouring ' Treasure',4 are the direct
predecessors of the silver5 and bronze 0 vessels, remains of which were found
in the ' Royal' and other tombs at Knossos of the beginning of the Late
Minoan Age, and of those, apparently both of gold and silver, seen on the
Camp-stool Fresco of the Palace. The example from Grave IV with
a succession of rosettes round its bowl7 supplies the prototype of a series of
pedestalled clay cups with painted rosettes that characterized the L. M. II
Period at Knossos, and survive, with degenerate imitations of the same
decoration, on a later family of cups both in Crete 8 and on the Mainland.9
1 See P. of M., i, p. 557, and Figs. 404,
405.
2 Schliemann, Mycenae, Fig. 343. Dr.
Karo, indeed {Die Schachtgriiber von Mykenai,
p. 211), from the ' straighter walls of the cup
and agreeably posed foot', compares them
with the best polished yellow Early Mycenaean
ware, and considers therefore that it repre-
sents a native Helladic form. But the handle
and its studs closely resembles that of the
silver pedestalled goblet from the ' Royal
Tomb ' at Isopata, and the connexion with the
yellow ware may well be the other way about.
3 Schliemann, op. at., Fig. 477.
4 Op. cit.. Fig. 528.
5 Parts of a silver vase of this type were
found in the Royal Tomb at Isopata (A. E.,
Prehistoric Tombs of Knossos, i, p. 155, Fig.
134).
6 A pedestalled bronze cup was found in
the Tomb of the Tripod Hearth, op. at.,
Pt. II, PI. LXXXIX, n.
7 Schliemann, op. at., Fig. 477.
8 Compare, especially, a cup from Milato
(L. M. Ill A. E., Prehistoric Tombs, &c,
p. 97, Fig. 106, m.
8 e. g. Tiryns (Nauplia Museum). The
lily ornament seen on other parallel cups of
the last Palace period (L. M. II) at Knossos
also reappears on the Mainland types. The
so-called ' budding crocus' motive seen at
Korakou (C. W. Blegen, Korakou, p. 55,
Fig- 73> P'- VI, 2) and elsewhere is really
derived from the traditional inflorescent palm-
tree motive of Knossos (see my Comparative
Table, P. of M., ii, Pt. II, p. 496, Fig. 301).
The correspondence both of form and decora-
tion is conclusive as to the Minoan tradition.
METAL VESSELS IN SHAFT GRAVES
forms of Melian ' bird-vases belonging to the Third Middle Cycladic Period
in both deposits.1 The same comparisons extend to the objects in faience,
and there can be little doubt that the specimens found in the Mycenae tombs
came from the Palace factory at Knossos. The faience inlays of a draught-
board, found in the Fourth Shaft Grave, show the same forms and decoration
as fragments of similar inlays from the Western Temple Repository.
Metal Vessels similarly dated.
The vases in precious metals repeat the same story. It has been
already noted that cups with arcaded flutings represent a style of decoration
already imitated in the finest M. M. II polychrome ware. Pedestalled
goblets, such as the plain one-handled cup from Grave IV,2 that with the
embossed lions at a flying gallop from Grave V,3 and that with two handles
terminating in dogs' heads from the neighbouring ' Treasure',4 are the direct
predecessors of the silver5 and bronze 0 vessels, remains of which were found
in the ' Royal' and other tombs at Knossos of the beginning of the Late
Minoan Age, and of those, apparently both of gold and silver, seen on the
Camp-stool Fresco of the Palace. The example from Grave IV with
a succession of rosettes round its bowl7 supplies the prototype of a series of
pedestalled clay cups with painted rosettes that characterized the L. M. II
Period at Knossos, and survive, with degenerate imitations of the same
decoration, on a later family of cups both in Crete 8 and on the Mainland.9
1 See P. of M., i, p. 557, and Figs. 404,
405.
2 Schliemann, Mycenae, Fig. 343. Dr.
Karo, indeed {Die Schachtgriiber von Mykenai,
p. 211), from the ' straighter walls of the cup
and agreeably posed foot', compares them
with the best polished yellow Early Mycenaean
ware, and considers therefore that it repre-
sents a native Helladic form. But the handle
and its studs closely resembles that of the
silver pedestalled goblet from the ' Royal
Tomb ' at Isopata, and the connexion with the
yellow ware may well be the other way about.
3 Schliemann, op. at., Fig. 477.
4 Op. cit.. Fig. 528.
5 Parts of a silver vase of this type were
found in the Royal Tomb at Isopata (A. E.,
Prehistoric Tombs of Knossos, i, p. 155, Fig.
134).
6 A pedestalled bronze cup was found in
the Tomb of the Tripod Hearth, op. at.,
Pt. II, PI. LXXXIX, n.
7 Schliemann, op. at., Fig. 477.
8 Compare, especially, a cup from Milato
(L. M. Ill A. E., Prehistoric Tombs, &c,
p. 97, Fig. 106, m.
8 e. g. Tiryns (Nauplia Museum). The
lily ornament seen on other parallel cups of
the last Palace period (L. M. II) at Knossos
also reappears on the Mainland types. The
so-called ' budding crocus' motive seen at
Korakou (C. W. Blegen, Korakou, p. 55,
Fig- 73> P'- VI, 2) and elsewhere is really
derived from the traditional inflorescent palm-
tree motive of Knossos (see my Comparative
Table, P. of M., ii, Pt. II, p. 496, Fig. 301).
The correspondence both of form and decora-
tion is conclusive as to the Minoan tradition.