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NOTE ON M. M. I a POTTERY OF HOUSES 79
Supplement to § 92 : Note on the M. M. I a Pottery from the Newly
Discovered Houses A and B.
The early Houses A and B brought to light beneath the two newly Mass of
discovered ' Koulouras ' have produced a real ' Corpus ' of materials for the ]Mlt'ery ;„
whole history of the M. M. I a ceramic stage * from its earliest transitional houses
J , to . beneath
beginnings to its very latest phase when polychromy was becoming general, ' Koulou-
and it merges in the M. M. I b style.
Some of the most remarkable of the domestic utensils, including the
jar with the perforated ledge, have already been described in connexion
with House B. As already noted, the contents of both houses illustrated,
as a whole, the same ceramic phase.
Among types that more specially represent the latest Early Minoan
tradition, in which a dark ground is more usually coupled with white decoration
where festoons and arches play a part, may be noted the cup (Fig. 53, 6), with
the slightly downward curving lines below the rim, and others diagonally
set in its circumference. The ' butterfly' pattern of the jug (Fig. 50,19), with
its cross-hatching, itself goes back to E. M. II.2 The early type of bridge-
spouted pot (Fig. 50, 16), with the exaggeratedly projecting mouth, fits on,
as has been already shown, to a very old Early Minoan class in which we
may trace the suggestion of proto-dynastic Egyptian copper vessels.3
The ' Askos' or Wine-skin Type and its Aegean and Troadic Diffusion :
Theriomorphic Features.
The askos or wine-skin type in
burnished red clay (Fig. 49 a) found in
House B calls for a few observations.
It belongs to a family of wide East
Mediterranean distribution—extend-
ing indeed to primitive Italy and to
the Thracian lands North of the
Aegean. Its known range includes
a considerable area of Western Ana-
tolia, and it was at home betimes in
the South Aegean Islands and the T .......
s . Fig. 49 a. M. M. I a Askos from House B.
Morea. The upper part of a slightly
later example, in the painted barbotine style of the beginning of M.M. I b
1 For a more detailed account of these the round disk from Mochlos (Seager, p. 36.
M. M. \a sherds I must again refer to Mr. and Fig. b (II. 1).
Mrs. John Pendlebury's paper in B.S.A. ' Cf. P. o/M., i, p. 166, and Fig. 117.
' A good example of this pattern is seen on
Supplement to § 92 : Note on the M. M. I a Pottery from the Newly
Discovered Houses A and B.
The early Houses A and B brought to light beneath the two newly Mass of
discovered ' Koulouras ' have produced a real ' Corpus ' of materials for the ]Mlt'ery ;„
whole history of the M. M. I a ceramic stage * from its earliest transitional houses
J , to . beneath
beginnings to its very latest phase when polychromy was becoming general, ' Koulou-
and it merges in the M. M. I b style.
Some of the most remarkable of the domestic utensils, including the
jar with the perforated ledge, have already been described in connexion
with House B. As already noted, the contents of both houses illustrated,
as a whole, the same ceramic phase.
Among types that more specially represent the latest Early Minoan
tradition, in which a dark ground is more usually coupled with white decoration
where festoons and arches play a part, may be noted the cup (Fig. 53, 6), with
the slightly downward curving lines below the rim, and others diagonally
set in its circumference. The ' butterfly' pattern of the jug (Fig. 50,19), with
its cross-hatching, itself goes back to E. M. II.2 The early type of bridge-
spouted pot (Fig. 50, 16), with the exaggeratedly projecting mouth, fits on,
as has been already shown, to a very old Early Minoan class in which we
may trace the suggestion of proto-dynastic Egyptian copper vessels.3
The ' Askos' or Wine-skin Type and its Aegean and Troadic Diffusion :
Theriomorphic Features.
The askos or wine-skin type in
burnished red clay (Fig. 49 a) found in
House B calls for a few observations.
It belongs to a family of wide East
Mediterranean distribution—extend-
ing indeed to primitive Italy and to
the Thracian lands North of the
Aegean. Its known range includes
a considerable area of Western Ana-
tolia, and it was at home betimes in
the South Aegean Islands and the T .......
s . Fig. 49 a. M. M. I a Askos from House B.
Morea. The upper part of a slightly
later example, in the painted barbotine style of the beginning of M.M. I b
1 For a more detailed account of these the round disk from Mochlos (Seager, p. 36.
M. M. \a sherds I must again refer to Mr. and Fig. b (II. 1).
Mrs. John Pendlebury's paper in B.S.A. ' Cf. P. o/M., i, p. 166, and Fig. 117.
' A good example of this pattern is seen on