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On the different styles of Tottery found in
siliceous glaze. Another characteristic form is a howl, spherical in form, with
a triangular handle (PL X. fig. 2), having a simple black pattern, painted
on a light huff ground, running round the outer rim, from whence similar
patterns join the centre. The inside is always destitute of pattern, and indeed
in the howls and platters of Cyprian pottery it is generally on the outside
that the potter lavished his ornaments, the intention evidently being that they
should he suspended against the walls of the domestic interiors, where they
would show to greater advantage. In the tombs they are always placed on the
ground, from the impossibility of hanging them against loose earthen walls. Some-
times the bowl occurs without a handle (PI. X. fig. 1), in which case a hole is
often pierced for it to hang by, the pattern in one example being coloured pink.
A common bowl, without ornament, hut with the same triangular handle, often
twisted, is of frequent occurrence, the form suggesting the idea that they were
imitations of metal, as do also certain vases with twisted rims; as well as a jug
in which the nail-heads, as if for fastening on the handle, are very conspicuous
(PI. IX. fig. 1). A few other interesting types are added to illustrate the
variety of shapes belonging to this class of cemeteries; the pattern of one vase
(PI. IX. fig. 5) has been pricked into the clay while moist. There are also some
remarkable vases in imitation of animals, the hull being most commonly reproduced,
hut it is difficult to say what creature the vase shown in the annexed woodcut
is intended to represent. Perhaps it will he considered rash to affirm that the
PAIKTED VASE, CYPRUS.
Scale \ linear.
nude figure (PI. X. fig. 4) was intended for Venus. There is little doubt, however,
that such is the case, as it is exactly similar to representations which have come
down to us of the Persian goddess Melitta, who in the Persian mythology held
the place of Aphrodite and Venus of the Greeks and Romans. The fact of its
being found in one of these tombs would lead to the inference that the people
On the different styles of Tottery found in
siliceous glaze. Another characteristic form is a howl, spherical in form, with
a triangular handle (PL X. fig. 2), having a simple black pattern, painted
on a light huff ground, running round the outer rim, from whence similar
patterns join the centre. The inside is always destitute of pattern, and indeed
in the howls and platters of Cyprian pottery it is generally on the outside
that the potter lavished his ornaments, the intention evidently being that they
should he suspended against the walls of the domestic interiors, where they
would show to greater advantage. In the tombs they are always placed on the
ground, from the impossibility of hanging them against loose earthen walls. Some-
times the bowl occurs without a handle (PI. X. fig. 1), in which case a hole is
often pierced for it to hang by, the pattern in one example being coloured pink.
A common bowl, without ornament, hut with the same triangular handle, often
twisted, is of frequent occurrence, the form suggesting the idea that they were
imitations of metal, as do also certain vases with twisted rims; as well as a jug
in which the nail-heads, as if for fastening on the handle, are very conspicuous
(PI. IX. fig. 1). A few other interesting types are added to illustrate the
variety of shapes belonging to this class of cemeteries; the pattern of one vase
(PI. IX. fig. 5) has been pricked into the clay while moist. There are also some
remarkable vases in imitation of animals, the hull being most commonly reproduced,
hut it is difficult to say what creature the vase shown in the annexed woodcut
is intended to represent. Perhaps it will he considered rash to affirm that the
PAIKTED VASE, CYPRUS.
Scale \ linear.
nude figure (PI. X. fig. 4) was intended for Venus. There is little doubt, however,
that such is the case, as it is exactly similar to representations which have come
down to us of the Persian goddess Melitta, who in the Persian mythology held
the place of Aphrodite and Venus of the Greeks and Romans. The fact of its
being found in one of these tombs would lead to the inference that the people