Hall, Edith H.: Excavations in eastern Crete Sphoungaras (Philadelphia, 1912)

EDITH H. HALL-EXCAVATIONS IN EASTERN CRETE.

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On this background are painted both inside and out red and
white festoons interspersed with white quirks. The petals of the
flower are painted white with red dividing lines. This vase
was found together with red and black egg-cups as well as
fragments of other Middle Minoan I cups. Comparable cups with
modelled ornaments inside were found at Palaikastro; in B. S.A.,
IX, 1902-1903, p. 302, Fig. I, $a, a specimen is shown where the
central ornament is a dog. In other cups the central ornaments
were birds, but no flowers were noted.

Fig. 29.—Middle Minoan 1 Bowl. Scale 2:3.

4. Tall straight sided cup, in shape like Middle Minoan II
and Late Minoan I cups. Its painted surface varies from
brown to black, a possible reminiscence of the mottled red and
black Early Minoan II style (Fig. 28, g). Similar cups were
found at Vasiliki in Middle Minoan I context.

5. Three round-bodied cups of buff clay with lines of dark
paint on rim and handle (Fig. 28, a, b and e).

6. More advanced shape, entirely covered with black paint
(Fig. 28, c).

7. Rim-handled bowl of buff clay (Fig. 28, h).

In addition to these cups and bowls, a quantity of Middle
Minoan I jugs came to light (Figs. 30 and 31). They came
from a comparatively small area adjacent to the area of pithos-
burials. In the one case where stratification was observable,
they lay above the Early Minoan III cups of Fig. 23. They need