Fairbanks, Arthur; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston [Editor]: Catalogue of Greek and Etruscan vases (Band 1): Early vases, preceding Athenian black-figured ware (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard Univ. Pr., 1928)

GREEK AND ETRUSCAN VASES

LATE MINOAN II
67. 09.50. Fragments of filler or cup. L. 0.09 m.; 0.055 m.
From Crete; gift of Mrs. T. J. Bowlker, 1909.
Clay red; buff slip inside and out. Straight, slightly flaring walls; small rim.
Decoration painted in brown glaze varying to black; parts of two zones of or-
nament remain, each showing a row of dots below, a high group of three leaves
rising from each fourth dot, and two concentric dotted arcs rising over the
intervening dots.
Plate IV.
68. 09.51. Fragments of low bowl. L. 0.11 m.; 0.078 m.
From Crete; gift of Mrs. T. J. Bowlker, 1909.
Clay buff; surface glazed. Low bowl with convex sides and small rim. Deco-
ration painted in red-brown glaze; inside solid red; outside, narrow band on
rim, a row of short wide diagonal strokes, a pattern of reversing spirals with the
outer line bent back, and three lines below.
Plate IV.
69. 09.582. Foot of bowl or cup. L. 0.098 m.
From Mochlos, Crete; gift of Mrs. T. J. Bowlker, 1909.
Clay buff. Small raised foot. Decoration in black glaze; solid black inside;
outside a band around the foot, and above it a wide wavy line with pendent
lines below and a fringe of short vertical lines above, from which rose occasional
bunches of fine foliage.
Plate IV.
LATE MINOAN III: FROM CRETE
70. 09.570. Stirrup jug. H. 0.194 m.; D. 0.137 m.
From Episkopi, Crete; gift of Mrs. T. J. Bowlker, 1909.
Repaired; small fragment missing.
Clay pale red; buff slip. Lentoid body with nearly flat top; nearly flat foot;
false neck with small strap handles; spout inserted near top of body. Decoration
painted in black glaze; on the body, horizontal bands; handles and spout sur-
rounded by a wavy line, opposite the spout two double concentric arcs enclosing
curvilinear ornament and supported by a lattice pattern approximately triangu-
lar; between spout and handle parallel wavy lines; spout and top of neck black,
ladder pattern on handles.
Plate V.
71. 09.569. Stirrup jug. H. 0.11 m.; D. 0.12 m.
From Episkopi, Crete; gift of Mrs. T. J. Bowlker, 1909.
Clay pale red; buff slip. Flattened globular body; low base ring; false neck
with small strap handles; round spout inserted near top of body. Decoration
painted in light brown; horizontal lines of varying width on the body; opposite
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