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comparison with datable Hellenic objects ; but it is not necessary to assume that there is no possible
classification or chronological development. The results obtained at Poli (Journ. Hell. Stud. xi.
p. 59, and xii. p. 327) at first sight appeared to countenance the theory of an absence of system or
successive development in Cypriote pottery; but it is probable that the explanation is due rather
to frequent re-burials, such as occurred constantly at Amathus.
Hellenic wares are not common, and are confined to tombs 10, 26, 71, 73, 78, and 83, the
only ones containing any imported objects of genuine Greek workmanship. Even these are
limited to a few inferior vases, dating from the beginning of the 5th century B.C. Tomb 10
contained an amphoriskos with diaper patterns on red ground (Fig. 139), of the 5th century B.C.,
such as were frequently found at Amathus and Poli, and at Cameiros, in tombs with other varieties
of late black-figured vases. Tomb 26 yielded a black-figured kylix of late and careless work
(Fig. 139), and tombs 73 and 83 also contained plain black-glazed kylikes, the former
specimen (Fig. 139) having a Gorgoneion in the centre. Tomb 71 contained a fragmentary
Fio. 138.
lekythos, similar to the amphoriskos from tomb 10, and a lamp of black-glazed ware, probably
a Hellenic importation of the 5th century b.c. ; both are now in the Nicosia Museum. In
tomb J2> were two cotylae, one covered with black glaze, the other (Fig. 139) of the type known
as Panathenaic.1
An interesting specimen of a later fabric was found in tomb 115: a hydria of Graeco-Italian
style (Fig. 140), with figures in opaque white on the shoulder, the rest of the vase being covered
with black glaze, and the body ribbed. Vases of this class had not previously been known in
Cyprus. They were formerly called Egnatian, owing to the fact that the majority of them had come
from Egnazia, the ancient Gnathia, in Apulia ; but they were most probably manufactured at
Tarentum.2 Specimens have been found in Melos (British Museum, F 552), and at Myrina, in Asia
Minor ; they date from the 3rd century b.c.
1 Cf. Brit. Mm. Cat of Vases, iii. E 152, and p. 14.
2 Lenormant in Gazette Arch'eol. 1881-2, p. 102, and Collignon. Hist. Cb: Grecque, p. 328 ; also Brit. Mus. Cat. of Vases,
iv. p. 23.
comparison with datable Hellenic objects ; but it is not necessary to assume that there is no possible
classification or chronological development. The results obtained at Poli (Journ. Hell. Stud. xi.
p. 59, and xii. p. 327) at first sight appeared to countenance the theory of an absence of system or
successive development in Cypriote pottery; but it is probable that the explanation is due rather
to frequent re-burials, such as occurred constantly at Amathus.
Hellenic wares are not common, and are confined to tombs 10, 26, 71, 73, 78, and 83, the
only ones containing any imported objects of genuine Greek workmanship. Even these are
limited to a few inferior vases, dating from the beginning of the 5th century B.C. Tomb 10
contained an amphoriskos with diaper patterns on red ground (Fig. 139), of the 5th century B.C.,
such as were frequently found at Amathus and Poli, and at Cameiros, in tombs with other varieties
of late black-figured vases. Tomb 26 yielded a black-figured kylix of late and careless work
(Fig. 139), and tombs 73 and 83 also contained plain black-glazed kylikes, the former
specimen (Fig. 139) having a Gorgoneion in the centre. Tomb 71 contained a fragmentary
Fio. 138.
lekythos, similar to the amphoriskos from tomb 10, and a lamp of black-glazed ware, probably
a Hellenic importation of the 5th century b.c. ; both are now in the Nicosia Museum. In
tomb J2> were two cotylae, one covered with black glaze, the other (Fig. 139) of the type known
as Panathenaic.1
An interesting specimen of a later fabric was found in tomb 115: a hydria of Graeco-Italian
style (Fig. 140), with figures in opaque white on the shoulder, the rest of the vase being covered
with black glaze, and the body ribbed. Vases of this class had not previously been known in
Cyprus. They were formerly called Egnatian, owing to the fact that the majority of them had come
from Egnazia, the ancient Gnathia, in Apulia ; but they were most probably manufactured at
Tarentum.2 Specimens have been found in Melos (British Museum, F 552), and at Myrina, in Asia
Minor ; they date from the 3rd century b.c.
1 Cf. Brit. Mm. Cat of Vases, iii. E 152, and p. 14.
2 Lenormant in Gazette Arch'eol. 1881-2, p. 102, and Collignon. Hist. Cb: Grecque, p. 328 ; also Brit. Mus. Cat. of Vases,
iv. p. 23.