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Plate III. of a conventional pomegranate, the mouth being in a shape more natural than convenient for use.
The patterns on the body of the vase appear also to be derived from nature. Nos. 1236-1238
are rude figures in terracotta, the first-mentioned being of a type which has frequently been found
in Assyria, sometimes in connection with the oldest civilisation of that country. Not dissimilar
figures in marble occur in the primitive tombs of the Greek islands. They are known generally as
idols of Astarte, and are supposed to have been made expressly for the purpose of sepulture.1

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Fig. 62.

The lower half of the illustration on this page (Fig. 62) represents more fully the pottery of tomb 88,
with its singular combination of Mycemean vases (Nos. 1219, 1220, 1221, 1222, 1223, 1235, 1246,
1252, 1254) in contrast to vases 1231 and 1250, which have geometric patterns on a pale white
ground; and still more in contrast to the vases of brown ware with raised patterns (1228, 1229,
1230, 1248, 1258), which usually are assigned to a very primitive period. In 1249 the pattern is
painted in white.

1 v. Fritze, Nackte orientalische G'dttin in Jahrbuch, 1897, p. 199 ; S. Reinach, Les Decsscs Nues in Rev. Arch. 1895 (xxvi.),
p. 367, and La Sculpture en Europe, &c, p. 88 fol. ; Reichel, Vorhcllcnische Gottercutte, p. 84.