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THE ARCHAIC POTTERY AND ITS CLASSIFICATION.
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equivalent in age in different places. Hence,
though the main value of lists of pottery from
different sites is from their showing us what pot-
tery was contemporary by being found together,
yet some value may be attached to the absolute
levels connected with different sites. As before
mentioned, all levels start from an arbitrary datum,
which is below any point that we need to notice:
the details of levels in general will be found in
Chap. X.
The general starting level of the town is about
level 300 inches, in all parts, and this probably
corresponds to about 650 on to 600 B.C., according
to the time when different parts of the town were
occupied. We must here notice the different
strata which have been examined, in the order of
their levels, leaving the more or less doubtful
question of their precedence in time to be con-
sidered apart.
The deepest strata examined were at the north-
east of the cleared streets, at the east of the south
wall of the temenos of Apollo (see pi. xli.); this
bed of broken pottery, &c, was from 280 to 310
level; the types were B6, finer than type, with a
yellow-white wash; C4 (bands of dark bistre on
drabby-white ground); A a dish, smooth faced,
broad flat rim, and close ribbed circles underneath,
(like that inscribed KAE+ in Apollo); D4; F2;
F3; F"; F12; G2; P; several of L1 bowls, kylix
stem, and deep curved bowl without a sharp rim ;
L2; P, amphora; Q1, thin jug; W3, jug; and
white-faced amphorae with red and with brown
lines; also a ' pilgrim bottle' made on a bag ; and
a ' pilgrim bottle' of green glazed ware.
A very similar deposit was found a short way
N.N.E. of this; types Fu ; J3; L1 (much); and
L2, along with the foot of a good blue glazed
sliabti, with inscription, of the style of the twenty-
sixth dynasty.
We have many beds of pottery worked in at
about this same level in different regions. In the
neighbourhood of the Apollo temenos a lamp of
the central tube type was found, along with pottery
B5; B6 (worked into a draughtman); F"; G2; Q2;
B1 (small aryballos with warriors in red); and W3
thin and polished. Also a draughtman made of
white faced amphora. Judging by the lamp, we
should place this as equivalent to stratum An 4 of
the Apollo trench.
Also low in the north half of the town there was
found together pottery of B6 (finer than the type,
a wash of yellow-white on the face); C4; A, fine
and smooth, a dish; E, with brown face and red
lotus pattern; F8, a cup; F9; G2; L1, with high
rim; and W4.
Another deposit of about the same level, also in
the north half, contained B6, with a white stripe;
D2, fret pattern; F, white and orange inside and
out, a flat bowl; F9 (much); G2; J1; L1; L2,
bowl with wavy handle U\J.
In the south part of the town the occupation
seems to be older than in the north part; the oldest
stratum is all burnt, and this burnt layer, black
with charcoal, is not found continued in the north
part. Again, the pottery of the 300 level seems
rather older than the same level pottery in the
north part. The large amphora of brown pottery,
with red lines and a white ^, (pi. xvi. 4), was
found in this burnt earth; also very coarse, thick,
red pottery, of which the cover of a large pan
has been brought over; large thick drab pottery
(P) amphorae; and white-faced amphorae with red
lines. Also a fine thin hard brown vase, with
black face (burnt red in the conflagration), a red
stripe between white stripes on the belly, and with
incised tabs or long leaves from the neck on to
the shoulder, the alternate tabs painted with thick
applied white. This earliest charred stratum I
should suppose to be about the middle of the
seventh century b.c.
At about 320 level, perhaps half a century later
than the preceding pottery, there was found part
of a globular vase (32), with a harpy or sphinx
incised, of Assyrianesque type, wearing a tiara;
near this (on the south side of the path), C4, lion
and stag; F11; G1; and L1.
At the same level a bowl of thickish drab (P),
with a short vertical brim; and on the north side
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equivalent in age in different places. Hence,
though the main value of lists of pottery from
different sites is from their showing us what pot-
tery was contemporary by being found together,
yet some value may be attached to the absolute
levels connected with different sites. As before
mentioned, all levels start from an arbitrary datum,
which is below any point that we need to notice:
the details of levels in general will be found in
Chap. X.
The general starting level of the town is about
level 300 inches, in all parts, and this probably
corresponds to about 650 on to 600 B.C., according
to the time when different parts of the town were
occupied. We must here notice the different
strata which have been examined, in the order of
their levels, leaving the more or less doubtful
question of their precedence in time to be con-
sidered apart.
The deepest strata examined were at the north-
east of the cleared streets, at the east of the south
wall of the temenos of Apollo (see pi. xli.); this
bed of broken pottery, &c, was from 280 to 310
level; the types were B6, finer than type, with a
yellow-white wash; C4 (bands of dark bistre on
drabby-white ground); A a dish, smooth faced,
broad flat rim, and close ribbed circles underneath,
(like that inscribed KAE+ in Apollo); D4; F2;
F3; F"; F12; G2; P; several of L1 bowls, kylix
stem, and deep curved bowl without a sharp rim ;
L2; P, amphora; Q1, thin jug; W3, jug; and
white-faced amphorae with red and with brown
lines; also a ' pilgrim bottle' made on a bag ; and
a ' pilgrim bottle' of green glazed ware.
A very similar deposit was found a short way
N.N.E. of this; types Fu ; J3; L1 (much); and
L2, along with the foot of a good blue glazed
sliabti, with inscription, of the style of the twenty-
sixth dynasty.
We have many beds of pottery worked in at
about this same level in different regions. In the
neighbourhood of the Apollo temenos a lamp of
the central tube type was found, along with pottery
B5; B6 (worked into a draughtman); F"; G2; Q2;
B1 (small aryballos with warriors in red); and W3
thin and polished. Also a draughtman made of
white faced amphora. Judging by the lamp, we
should place this as equivalent to stratum An 4 of
the Apollo trench.
Also low in the north half of the town there was
found together pottery of B6 (finer than the type,
a wash of yellow-white on the face); C4; A, fine
and smooth, a dish; E, with brown face and red
lotus pattern; F8, a cup; F9; G2; L1, with high
rim; and W4.
Another deposit of about the same level, also in
the north half, contained B6, with a white stripe;
D2, fret pattern; F, white and orange inside and
out, a flat bowl; F9 (much); G2; J1; L1; L2,
bowl with wavy handle U\J.
In the south part of the town the occupation
seems to be older than in the north part; the oldest
stratum is all burnt, and this burnt layer, black
with charcoal, is not found continued in the north
part. Again, the pottery of the 300 level seems
rather older than the same level pottery in the
north part. The large amphora of brown pottery,
with red lines and a white ^, (pi. xvi. 4), was
found in this burnt earth; also very coarse, thick,
red pottery, of which the cover of a large pan
has been brought over; large thick drab pottery
(P) amphorae; and white-faced amphorae with red
lines. Also a fine thin hard brown vase, with
black face (burnt red in the conflagration), a red
stripe between white stripes on the belly, and with
incised tabs or long leaves from the neck on to
the shoulder, the alternate tabs painted with thick
applied white. This earliest charred stratum I
should suppose to be about the middle of the
seventh century b.c.
At about 320 level, perhaps half a century later
than the preceding pottery, there was found part
of a globular vase (32), with a harpy or sphinx
incised, of Assyrianesque type, wearing a tiara;
near this (on the south side of the path), C4, lion
and stag; F11; G1; and L1.
At the same level a bowl of thickish drab (P),
with a short vertical brim; and on the north side