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On the different styles of Tottery found in
one to three feet high. 2nd. A barrel-shaped vase from ten to sixteen inches long,
and about the same in height, though sometimes smaller (PI. X.fig. 5). 3rd. A
kind of tureen, from six to eight inches high (PI. XII. fig. 1). 4th. Oinochoes, or
wine-jars, sometimes spherical in the body, sometimes more or less elongated
(PI. X. fig. 7). 5tli. Pinakes, or plates, painted chiefly on the under side, as if
meant to be suspended against the wall with that side towards the spectator
(PI. XI. fig. 3). They are either furnished with handles or with one or two little
holes near the rim. 6th. Coarse, very porous, oinochoes, of a black material,
with ribbed vertical lines for their only ornament (PI. XII. fig. 3). These are
often of diminutive size. 7th. Elegant little red vases, highly glazed, embracing
some of the previous forms, and ornamented with black horizontal lines and con-
centric circles (PI. XI. fig. 2). A few of this class have a pale buff ground
(PI. XII. fig. 4). These are the most highly finished vases, and, being often
very diminutive, and provided with an orifice so small as to allow a liquid put
into them to come out only by drops, were probably meant to contain perfumes.
The designs on all the foregoing vases, which are somewhat less varied than
the shapes, consist of a variety of geometrical patterns, the lozenge and con-
centric circle predominating, though these are seldom or never found together,
waves and lines encircling the vase, chequers, stars, and other simple ornaments
being often intermixed. The large amphorae are almost always adorned with
either lozenges or concentric circles, and the last-mentioned little red perfume
vases are always painted with horizontal lines and concentric circles, or either
separately, traced in black, the lozenge never figuring upon them. Both styles
largely pervade this whole class of pottery, the concentric circles predominating
in some cemeteries, the lozenge form of ornamentation in others. Black is the
chief colour employed, occasionally relieved by red. Another favourite ornament,
frequently repeated on little jars with a whitish ground, is what resembles a
wheel with four spokes, generally joined with some other simple ornament, as a
star or cross, and always with an eye on either side of the spout. Sometimes
this wheel-ornament is found on larger vases, but always accompanied with two
eyes (PI. X. fig. 7).
Amongst elegant forms is an incense-holder (PI. XI. fig. 1), fitting which is
a lid perforated with holes for the perfume to escape from. It stands eight and
a half inches high. Another one, more than two feet high, but without a lid,
which may have been lost, is now in the British Museum. The only examples I
have yet met with in this class of tombs of an attempt to mould animals in
pottery seem to have been imitations of the duck. One, and the most elegant,
On the different styles of Tottery found in
one to three feet high. 2nd. A barrel-shaped vase from ten to sixteen inches long,
and about the same in height, though sometimes smaller (PI. X.fig. 5). 3rd. A
kind of tureen, from six to eight inches high (PI. XII. fig. 1). 4th. Oinochoes, or
wine-jars, sometimes spherical in the body, sometimes more or less elongated
(PI. X. fig. 7). 5tli. Pinakes, or plates, painted chiefly on the under side, as if
meant to be suspended against the wall with that side towards the spectator
(PI. XI. fig. 3). They are either furnished with handles or with one or two little
holes near the rim. 6th. Coarse, very porous, oinochoes, of a black material,
with ribbed vertical lines for their only ornament (PI. XII. fig. 3). These are
often of diminutive size. 7th. Elegant little red vases, highly glazed, embracing
some of the previous forms, and ornamented with black horizontal lines and con-
centric circles (PI. XI. fig. 2). A few of this class have a pale buff ground
(PI. XII. fig. 4). These are the most highly finished vases, and, being often
very diminutive, and provided with an orifice so small as to allow a liquid put
into them to come out only by drops, were probably meant to contain perfumes.
The designs on all the foregoing vases, which are somewhat less varied than
the shapes, consist of a variety of geometrical patterns, the lozenge and con-
centric circle predominating, though these are seldom or never found together,
waves and lines encircling the vase, chequers, stars, and other simple ornaments
being often intermixed. The large amphorae are almost always adorned with
either lozenges or concentric circles, and the last-mentioned little red perfume
vases are always painted with horizontal lines and concentric circles, or either
separately, traced in black, the lozenge never figuring upon them. Both styles
largely pervade this whole class of pottery, the concentric circles predominating
in some cemeteries, the lozenge form of ornamentation in others. Black is the
chief colour employed, occasionally relieved by red. Another favourite ornament,
frequently repeated on little jars with a whitish ground, is what resembles a
wheel with four spokes, generally joined with some other simple ornament, as a
star or cross, and always with an eye on either side of the spout. Sometimes
this wheel-ornament is found on larger vases, but always accompanied with two
eyes (PI. X. fig. 7).
Amongst elegant forms is an incense-holder (PI. XI. fig. 1), fitting which is
a lid perforated with holes for the perfume to escape from. It stands eight and
a half inches high. Another one, more than two feet high, but without a lid,
which may have been lost, is now in the British Museum. The only examples I
have yet met with in this class of tombs of an attempt to mould animals in
pottery seem to have been imitations of the duck. One, and the most elegant,