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extended quite evenly over the top of the outside as if these
vases, like the black-topped ware from Egypt, had been placed
upside down in a bed of coals.

The commonest types were egg-cups of which 8 appeared
and plates of which II were found and 8 could be restored. No
illustrations of the egg-cups are given since they correspond
so closely to those from Vasiliki;1 specimens of the plates are
shown in Fig. 20. This shape has been found at Zakro2 and at

Fig. 22.—Early Minoan II Pottery. Scale 1:3.

Vasiliki,3 but only a few specimens have been hitherto recovered.
One plate in Fig. 20 has waved lines painted in white above
the mottled surface—a method noted before4 and practiced,
evidently, at the very end of the Early Minoan II period.

In addition to egg-cups and plates this deposit yielded other
familiar types of mottled ware such as jugs and bridge-spouted
bowls and also several new shapes, which are shown in Fig. 21.

1B. s. A., VII, p. 143.
* Loc. cit., PI. XXXIV, 1.

3 Transactions, II, 2, p. 116.

4 Transactions, I, 3, p. 116.