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THE PRIVATE HOUSE AND DOMESTIC LIFE
T7
Glass Paste
—Kyanos.
Fig. 27. Glased Vat
(Grave IV.)
■which were traced various designs in simple colors (Figs.
27, 28). But the subject of vase-
painting must be reserved for a later
chapter.
Glass in the strict sense of the term
was apparently unknown to the Myce-
naean world, but a substance resembling
it was largely used. This
an opaque glass paste colored
with copper ore and employed mainly in
moulding trinkets, which are found by
the hundred at Mycenae and Spata.
Occasionally goblets were made of it,
but of these no example has been found unbroken,
fragments we can make out that they were in some cases
at least not unlike the pattern in common use to-day.
These fragments are white, blue or greenish, — the last-
named tint being probably only a modification under the
action of time and weather of the original kyanos, — and
they are decorated with spirals and the like in black, chest-
nut, or yellow.1
There remain to be mentioned implements of two other
materials, namely, wood and ivory. It goes without say-
ing that many of the commoner as well as of the •WooA .Uld
costlier utensils were of wood, but in the nature Ivory
of things nearly all of these have perished — a box or two
excepted.2 We find also two or three ivory boxes— one of
From
1 See Schliemami's Mycenae, xliii. ff., and for examples of the stone moulds
used in casting glass trinkets, ib., pp. 107-109.
3 In Grave V., Schliemann's First Sepulchre, he picked up two sides of a
small quadrangular wooden box, on each of which are carved in relief a lion
and a dog. " Small as these sculptures are, they are still of capital interest,
because they prove that the art of carving in wood flourished in the heroic age.'
— Mycenae, p. 332.
T7
Glass Paste
—Kyanos.
Fig. 27. Glased Vat
(Grave IV.)
■which were traced various designs in simple colors (Figs.
27, 28). But the subject of vase-
painting must be reserved for a later
chapter.
Glass in the strict sense of the term
was apparently unknown to the Myce-
naean world, but a substance resembling
it was largely used. This
an opaque glass paste colored
with copper ore and employed mainly in
moulding trinkets, which are found by
the hundred at Mycenae and Spata.
Occasionally goblets were made of it,
but of these no example has been found unbroken,
fragments we can make out that they were in some cases
at least not unlike the pattern in common use to-day.
These fragments are white, blue or greenish, — the last-
named tint being probably only a modification under the
action of time and weather of the original kyanos, — and
they are decorated with spirals and the like in black, chest-
nut, or yellow.1
There remain to be mentioned implements of two other
materials, namely, wood and ivory. It goes without say-
ing that many of the commoner as well as of the •WooA .Uld
costlier utensils were of wood, but in the nature Ivory
of things nearly all of these have perished — a box or two
excepted.2 We find also two or three ivory boxes— one of
From
1 See Schliemami's Mycenae, xliii. ff., and for examples of the stone moulds
used in casting glass trinkets, ib., pp. 107-109.
3 In Grave V., Schliemann's First Sepulchre, he picked up two sides of a
small quadrangular wooden box, on each of which are carved in relief a lion
and a dog. " Small as these sculptures are, they are still of capital interest,
because they prove that the art of carving in wood flourished in the heroic age.'
— Mycenae, p. 332.