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SMALLER M.M. Ill VASES FROM MYCENAE THOLOI 233
by the final overthrow of the Palace about the close of the Fifteenth
Century b. c. Even in the days of the earlier Late Minoan phase we
already find derivative types of the ' Medallionpithoi\ such as the pithoid
jars and 'amphoras' described below.1
According to the view above referred to, these jars were copied in
stone in the days of 'Mycenaean' decadence,2 and, at a date not earlier
certainly than about the middle of the Thirteenth Century ]i. c. The theory
that we have here copies from originals the fabric of which was two
centuries earlier in date and themselves at least a hundred and fifty years
later than the final disappearance of the originals from use, may at least be
said to involve one interesting consequence. The buried Magazines of
Knossos must in that case have been the scene of expert excavation on the
part of the Kings of Mycenae.3
Smaller Stone Vessels of Characteristic M. M. Ill Fabric from
'Clytemnestra' and ' Atreus ' Tombs.
Other smaller vessels of the same date were in fact found in connexion
with these two tholos Tombs. Among the Schliemann finds in the 'Tomb
of Clytemnestra' was a doubly significant fragment of a vase. It is part of
the side of a vessel in black and white stone with plaited basket-work or
leather-work pattern on the outside as Fig. 176 and ornamented irregularly
with small drill-holes for inserting some inlay.'1 Here, again, we have the
characteristic plaitwork of the ewers found in the M. M. Ill a stratum in and
about the ' North-West Lustral Basin at Knossos', that has been already
noted in connexion with the fragment of the gypsum capital.5 As an illustra-
tion of the pattern a piece of one of the vessels from that area in white,
marble-like limestone, has already been given in Fig. 170. In the case of
1 See below, p. 261 seqq. they represent only a part of a series of stone
- Mr. Wace, J.U.S., xxv, p. 374 refers these vessels and reliefs all of the same M. M. Ill
M. M.
Ill a
stone
vases
with
plaitwork
and
inlays
from
• Clytem-
nestra '
Tomb.
steatitepithoi to the beginning of his 'Late
HelladicIII', which represents a phase illus-
trated by the sherd found beneath the 'Atreus'
threshold, more or less parallel with the early
part of L. M. Ill b, according to the Cretan
classification. By Mr. Wace the date is, im-
possibly, referred to the Age of Tell-el-Amarna,
the first half of the fourteenth century is. c.
3 Wace,y. H. S., xlvi, p. 112, falls back on
the theory that they were 'antiques', like the
Egyptian stone vessels that not infrequently
occur in later deposits. But, as we have seen,
date. The Kings of Mycenae were hardly such
antiquarian connoisseurs as to pick up ' period'
pieces, just as a modern amateur might collect
Jacobean furniture or Ming china.
A B. S. A., xxv, p. 364 (No. 68). Mr.
Wace rightly observes that the vessel may be
Cretan, and compares the M. M. Ill stone
vases. Unfortunately this doubly interesting
fragment lias since disappeared—like the frag-
ment of the 'Clytemnestra' capital already
mentioned—in the Athens Museum.
D See above, p. 229.
by the final overthrow of the Palace about the close of the Fifteenth
Century b. c. Even in the days of the earlier Late Minoan phase we
already find derivative types of the ' Medallionpithoi\ such as the pithoid
jars and 'amphoras' described below.1
According to the view above referred to, these jars were copied in
stone in the days of 'Mycenaean' decadence,2 and, at a date not earlier
certainly than about the middle of the Thirteenth Century ]i. c. The theory
that we have here copies from originals the fabric of which was two
centuries earlier in date and themselves at least a hundred and fifty years
later than the final disappearance of the originals from use, may at least be
said to involve one interesting consequence. The buried Magazines of
Knossos must in that case have been the scene of expert excavation on the
part of the Kings of Mycenae.3
Smaller Stone Vessels of Characteristic M. M. Ill Fabric from
'Clytemnestra' and ' Atreus ' Tombs.
Other smaller vessels of the same date were in fact found in connexion
with these two tholos Tombs. Among the Schliemann finds in the 'Tomb
of Clytemnestra' was a doubly significant fragment of a vase. It is part of
the side of a vessel in black and white stone with plaited basket-work or
leather-work pattern on the outside as Fig. 176 and ornamented irregularly
with small drill-holes for inserting some inlay.'1 Here, again, we have the
characteristic plaitwork of the ewers found in the M. M. Ill a stratum in and
about the ' North-West Lustral Basin at Knossos', that has been already
noted in connexion with the fragment of the gypsum capital.5 As an illustra-
tion of the pattern a piece of one of the vessels from that area in white,
marble-like limestone, has already been given in Fig. 170. In the case of
1 See below, p. 261 seqq. they represent only a part of a series of stone
- Mr. Wace, J.U.S., xxv, p. 374 refers these vessels and reliefs all of the same M. M. Ill
M. M.
Ill a
stone
vases
with
plaitwork
and
inlays
from
• Clytem-
nestra '
Tomb.
steatitepithoi to the beginning of his 'Late
HelladicIII', which represents a phase illus-
trated by the sherd found beneath the 'Atreus'
threshold, more or less parallel with the early
part of L. M. Ill b, according to the Cretan
classification. By Mr. Wace the date is, im-
possibly, referred to the Age of Tell-el-Amarna,
the first half of the fourteenth century is. c.
3 Wace,y. H. S., xlvi, p. 112, falls back on
the theory that they were 'antiques', like the
Egyptian stone vessels that not infrequently
occur in later deposits. But, as we have seen,
date. The Kings of Mycenae were hardly such
antiquarian connoisseurs as to pick up ' period'
pieces, just as a modern amateur might collect
Jacobean furniture or Ming china.
A B. S. A., xxv, p. 364 (No. 68). Mr.
Wace rightly observes that the vessel may be
Cretan, and compares the M. M. Ill stone
vases. Unfortunately this doubly interesting
fragment lias since disappeared—like the frag-
ment of the 'Clytemnestra' capital already
mentioned—in the Athens Museum.
D See above, p. 229.