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240 THE MYCENAEAN AGE
the Greek mainland or in Peloponnesus are so clearly
of the Trojan type that we may assume their importation
from the Troad. And apparently this importation continued
even after Greece had begun to export to Troy her fine
glazed ware.
The second class of vases is distinguished by polychrome
painting, applied either (a) directly on the clay ground, or
(6) over a lustrous varnish. In the first group
Vases: Uu- (a), the ground tone is red or pale yellow, at times
greenish, on a smoothly finished surface, and the
colors used (all dull in effect) are black, red, chestnut,
chestnut-red, deep red and grayish-white. The decorations
-*-„. are mostly linear, ranging
Jm/Wl from straight lines to spirals
^^^^j^^^'T'^^^y jects also occur — as plants,
W t.....*TT"^\7. '%j^S',4 birds, stags, —even the
V (^.^'-.^..^•^MLjW griffin. Marine life, as
^4j£SS^£BBS/f usual, preponderates. The
^^y^ijfjllir examples of this group,
^■^g^pr which is peculiarly archaic.
I^P^jg) are comparatively rare.
They are found, however.
Fig. 120. Vase from Vaphio. H.4iinehea . . r . . .
in Argons, Attica, Aegina.
Boeotia, and the Aegean Islands — not indeed in the
graves of the primitive islanders (Carians), but in strata
belonging most probably to the later Hellenic colonists.
This does not warrant the conclusion that vase-painting
is an original Hellenic invention, for dull-painted pottery
occurs also in other countries (as Cyprus and Egypt), from
which the Hellenes may have borrowed the art. In the
Islands, however, it seems to have been developed and trans-
formed into a distinctive type, employing for the most part
the Greek mainland or in Peloponnesus are so clearly
of the Trojan type that we may assume their importation
from the Troad. And apparently this importation continued
even after Greece had begun to export to Troy her fine
glazed ware.
The second class of vases is distinguished by polychrome
painting, applied either (a) directly on the clay ground, or
(6) over a lustrous varnish. In the first group
Vases: Uu- (a), the ground tone is red or pale yellow, at times
greenish, on a smoothly finished surface, and the
colors used (all dull in effect) are black, red, chestnut,
chestnut-red, deep red and grayish-white. The decorations
-*-„. are mostly linear, ranging
Jm/Wl from straight lines to spirals
^^^^j^^^'T'^^^y jects also occur — as plants,
W t.....*TT"^\7. '%j^S',4 birds, stags, —even the
V (^.^'-.^..^•^MLjW griffin. Marine life, as
^4j£SS^£BBS/f usual, preponderates. The
^^y^ijfjllir examples of this group,
^■^g^pr which is peculiarly archaic.
I^P^jg) are comparatively rare.
They are found, however.
Fig. 120. Vase from Vaphio. H.4iinehea . . r . . .
in Argons, Attica, Aegina.
Boeotia, and the Aegean Islands — not indeed in the
graves of the primitive islanders (Carians), but in strata
belonging most probably to the later Hellenic colonists.
This does not warrant the conclusion that vase-painting
is an original Hellenic invention, for dull-painted pottery
occurs also in other countries (as Cyprus and Egypt), from
which the Hellenes may have borrowed the art. In the
Islands, however, it seems to have been developed and trans-
formed into a distinctive type, employing for the most part