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CHAPTER XIII.
THE POTTERY.
By Cecil Smith.
The painted pottery found on the site of the Artemision is for the most part of
so scanty and fragmentary a nature that it would be rash to offer any conjectures
based on the presence or absence or the relative quantity of any given fabric
there represented. Otherwise it might be worthy of remark that only one frag-
ment of the true Geometric ware was discovered (inside the Basis) ; while there
is nothing whatever of Minoan or Mycenaean ware, nothing of the " Eikellura "
style, and nothing (or, at any rate, nothing certain) of the fabric attributed to
Naukratis. Protocorinthian ware is represented only by two examples, while
the "Corinthian" aryballi are better represented than any other class
save one.1 Otherwise the pottery is very much what we should expect from
any Ionic site, such as, for instance, Bohlau has studied in his A us Ionischen
Nekropolen. The typical Ionian fabrics, such as the "Apollo bowls," the
ibex jugs and vases, the pinakes and the allied vases with similar decorations
laid sometimes on a white slip and sometimes direct on the brownish clay,
are all represented ; and an interesting contribution is made to the study
of the " Lesbian" bucchcro ware, although no fragment of this shows any traces
of colour.
The most interesting objects under this head are reproduced in colour on
PI. xlix. Figs. 1-5 ( = Nos. 4-9) are fragments belonging to a fabric which,
so far as I am aware, is otherwise unknown. While, on the one hand, it is
evidently related to the " ibex" (the so-called " Rhodian ") ware, it has marked
points of difference. Its special characteristic is the employment of a kind of
purple-umber pigment laid direct on the engobe, both in the design and for the
borders ; the same colour is also used, within a black outline2 (see PI. xlix, 2),
and has a design in black painted upon it. This colour varies from deep
umber to lightest yellow ; the black used on this ware is of a very earthy
brownish colour, approaching rather to bistre. The effect of these colours
standing out against a brilliant white engobe is extremely decorative. The
clay is deep red.
1 While all important pieces were brought home, of the unimportant only a selection was made ; the evidence
therefore of relative quantities must not l>e pressed.
: The same technique is found on the Etrphorbos pinax (8.M., A 749).
CHAPTER XIII.
THE POTTERY.
By Cecil Smith.
The painted pottery found on the site of the Artemision is for the most part of
so scanty and fragmentary a nature that it would be rash to offer any conjectures
based on the presence or absence or the relative quantity of any given fabric
there represented. Otherwise it might be worthy of remark that only one frag-
ment of the true Geometric ware was discovered (inside the Basis) ; while there
is nothing whatever of Minoan or Mycenaean ware, nothing of the " Eikellura "
style, and nothing (or, at any rate, nothing certain) of the fabric attributed to
Naukratis. Protocorinthian ware is represented only by two examples, while
the "Corinthian" aryballi are better represented than any other class
save one.1 Otherwise the pottery is very much what we should expect from
any Ionic site, such as, for instance, Bohlau has studied in his A us Ionischen
Nekropolen. The typical Ionian fabrics, such as the "Apollo bowls," the
ibex jugs and vases, the pinakes and the allied vases with similar decorations
laid sometimes on a white slip and sometimes direct on the brownish clay,
are all represented ; and an interesting contribution is made to the study
of the " Lesbian" bucchcro ware, although no fragment of this shows any traces
of colour.
The most interesting objects under this head are reproduced in colour on
PI. xlix. Figs. 1-5 ( = Nos. 4-9) are fragments belonging to a fabric which,
so far as I am aware, is otherwise unknown. While, on the one hand, it is
evidently related to the " ibex" (the so-called " Rhodian ") ware, it has marked
points of difference. Its special characteristic is the employment of a kind of
purple-umber pigment laid direct on the engobe, both in the design and for the
borders ; the same colour is also used, within a black outline2 (see PI. xlix, 2),
and has a design in black painted upon it. This colour varies from deep
umber to lightest yellow ; the black used on this ware is of a very earthy
brownish colour, approaching rather to bistre. The effect of these colours
standing out against a brilliant white engobe is extremely decorative. The
clay is deep red.
1 While all important pieces were brought home, of the unimportant only a selection was made ; the evidence
therefore of relative quantities must not l>e pressed.
: The same technique is found on the Etrphorbos pinax (8.M., A 749).