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PART OF BULL'S-HEAD ' RHYTON ' OF INLAID BRECCIA 8s
of this beautiful material at that epoch. Still, the vase to which the above
fragment belonged clearly
represents the earlier tra-
dition as opposed to that
of the last Middle Minoan
Period, when, as in the
succeeding Late Minoan
Age, the stone vessels of
which we have any record
are of such materials as
steatite, limestone, and na-
tive alabaster.1
The fragment sup-
plies a valuable clue to its
original connexion in the
traces of circular borings
made to contain pieces of
inlay. One of these pieces,
moreover, still holds with-
in it the greater part of
a cylindrical section of FlG 63
white marble-like material.
The circular borings are
grouped in one case into a kind of quatrefoil, recalling the conventional
rendering of the spots on bulls in Minoan Art, and there can be little doubt
that the fragment formed part of a typical bull's-head rhyton, such as is
shown in Fig. 03. In the case of the remains of a bull's-head rhyton from
the 'Tomb of the Double Axes' at Knossos2 quatrefoil inlays of this kind
were found, consisting of a dark grey stone. These conventional spots,
sometimes trifoliate, represent a tradition of high antiquity. Not only do we
find a parallel series in the case of the Hathor cows/1 but rhytons in the
form of bulls with inlays of this kind have been found in Chaldaea,'1 of old
Sumerian fabric, going back at least to the beginning of the fourth millen-
nium before our era.
So, too, among Schliemann's finds in the ' Tomb of Clytemnestra'
a part of the side of a vase in black and white stone was found ' with plaited
Rkstorkd View of Bull's-Head
w ith Breccia Fragment inserted.
Rhyton
' Op. (it., pp. 411, 412, and Fig. 296.
2 A. E., Tomb of the Double Axes, &c.
(Archaeologia, vol. lxv), pp. 52,53, and Fig. 70.
" Cf. P. o/M., i, pp. 513-15, and Fig. 370.
* See P. of A/., ii, pp. 260-4, and Fig. 156.
of this beautiful material at that epoch. Still, the vase to which the above
fragment belonged clearly
represents the earlier tra-
dition as opposed to that
of the last Middle Minoan
Period, when, as in the
succeeding Late Minoan
Age, the stone vessels of
which we have any record
are of such materials as
steatite, limestone, and na-
tive alabaster.1
The fragment sup-
plies a valuable clue to its
original connexion in the
traces of circular borings
made to contain pieces of
inlay. One of these pieces,
moreover, still holds with-
in it the greater part of
a cylindrical section of FlG 63
white marble-like material.
The circular borings are
grouped in one case into a kind of quatrefoil, recalling the conventional
rendering of the spots on bulls in Minoan Art, and there can be little doubt
that the fragment formed part of a typical bull's-head rhyton, such as is
shown in Fig. 03. In the case of the remains of a bull's-head rhyton from
the 'Tomb of the Double Axes' at Knossos2 quatrefoil inlays of this kind
were found, consisting of a dark grey stone. These conventional spots,
sometimes trifoliate, represent a tradition of high antiquity. Not only do we
find a parallel series in the case of the Hathor cows/1 but rhytons in the
form of bulls with inlays of this kind have been found in Chaldaea,'1 of old
Sumerian fabric, going back at least to the beginning of the fourth millen-
nium before our era.
So, too, among Schliemann's finds in the ' Tomb of Clytemnestra'
a part of the side of a vase in black and white stone was found ' with plaited
Rkstorkd View of Bull's-Head
w ith Breccia Fragment inserted.
Rhyton
' Op. (it., pp. 411, 412, and Fig. 296.
2 A. E., Tomb of the Double Axes, &c.
(Archaeologia, vol. lxv), pp. 52,53, and Fig. 70.
" Cf. P. o/M., i, pp. 513-15, and Fig. 370.
* See P. of A/., ii, pp. 260-4, and Fig. 156.