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THE INLANDS IN ART 259
of these, it will be remembered, was found at Melos, the
other at Amorgos, and both are of Siphnos stone; they are,
therefore, unquestionably island fabrics. Both represent
dwellings — and clearly island-dwellings — built on pile-
platforms, such as we have assumed for the archetype
of the two-story houses at Mycenae. Hence if our hypo-
thesis be correct — as we hope to show in a subsequent
chapter — the islanders who reared their conical' huts
on piles must have been an offshoot of the lake-dwelling
contingent of the Mycenaean stock.
That these two urns actually represent such dwellings
is beyond a doubt.
The one from Melos,
now in the Anti-
quarium at Munich,
w*s dis- ^ -.
covered *«&">&
many years ago;
but, as its proven-
ience was at first
unknown, Sir John
Lubbock published
Fig. 133. Stone Box representing Pile-settlement •• j i o
from Melos (at Munich) 1C ftS a m°aei Ot a
Swiss lake-dwelling.1
The Amorgos urn, first published ■ by Diimmler, is of
greenish marble, carefully wrought with a knife or fine
1 " The Museum at Munich contains a very interesting piece of pottery [sic),
apparently intended to represent a Lake hamlet containing seven round huts.
The huts are arranged in three rows of three each, thus forming three sides of
a square. The fourtli side is closed hy a wall, in the centre of which is an
opening leading into a poreh, which is represented as being thatched. The
platform on which the huts stand is supported by four columns represented as
consisting of logs lying one upon the other. The roof is unfortunately wanting.
The sides are ornamented with the double spiral so characteristic of the Bronze
Age." — Lubbock, Prehistoric Times, p. 57. Cf. Diimmler, I. c, p. 446,
of these, it will be remembered, was found at Melos, the
other at Amorgos, and both are of Siphnos stone; they are,
therefore, unquestionably island fabrics. Both represent
dwellings — and clearly island-dwellings — built on pile-
platforms, such as we have assumed for the archetype
of the two-story houses at Mycenae. Hence if our hypo-
thesis be correct — as we hope to show in a subsequent
chapter — the islanders who reared their conical' huts
on piles must have been an offshoot of the lake-dwelling
contingent of the Mycenaean stock.
That these two urns actually represent such dwellings
is beyond a doubt.
The one from Melos,
now in the Anti-
quarium at Munich,
w*s dis- ^ -.
covered *«&">&
many years ago;
but, as its proven-
ience was at first
unknown, Sir John
Lubbock published
Fig. 133. Stone Box representing Pile-settlement •• j i o
from Melos (at Munich) 1C ftS a m°aei Ot a
Swiss lake-dwelling.1
The Amorgos urn, first published ■ by Diimmler, is of
greenish marble, carefully wrought with a knife or fine
1 " The Museum at Munich contains a very interesting piece of pottery [sic),
apparently intended to represent a Lake hamlet containing seven round huts.
The huts are arranged in three rows of three each, thus forming three sides of
a square. The fourtli side is closed hy a wall, in the centre of which is an
opening leading into a poreh, which is represented as being thatched. The
platform on which the huts stand is supported by four columns represented as
consisting of logs lying one upon the other. The roof is unfortunately wanting.
The sides are ornamented with the double spiral so characteristic of the Bronze
Age." — Lubbock, Prehistoric Times, p. 57. Cf. Diimmler, I. c, p. 446,