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GENERAL INTRODUCTION
Fig. 22. — Mycenaean Vase, with
dull unglazed color.
From Furtwangler and Loeschcke,
Mykenische Vasen, pi. xxiv. No. 175.
first impression which the excavations themselves forced
upon me, and feel justified in submitting them to the
judgment of archaeologists.
The preponderance on this site of so-called " Proto-
Ccrrinthian " ware attracted our attention at the very be-
ginning of the excavations. And when further the fact
forced itself upon our notice that in the distinctive char-
acteristics of this ware there was a continuity, not only in
its development from the earliest primitive to the latest
vases, but also from the most inferior and cheapest hand-
made vessel — probably sold for the smallest coin in the
booths of the local potter before the walls of the sanctuary,
together with the cheap and rude idols — to the most per-
fect specimen of delicate ceramic work, I then felt that we
here had to deal with local manufacture peculiar to the
Ileraeum or the Argive plain, to which I propose to give the name of Argive-Linear.
But if this be true, then the current and established classification of all the early Greek
pottery will have to be reconsidered,
and the modifications thus caused in
this important class of archaeological
evidence will tend to modify our views
with regard to the early history of the
Greek people.
The current view most widely ac-
cepted by archaeologists for the his-
torical classification of early Greek
pottery is chiefly based upon the funda-
mental work done by Furtwangler and
Loeschcke ' on Mycenaean vases. In a
brief form this classification is marked
by the following subdivisions.2
Primitive ware, for which we prac-
tically rely upon the finds of Hissar-
lik, consists chiefly of rough hand-
made pottery, either of the simplest
rounded bowl shape, with holes for
suspension by means of a cord instead
of handles, or eccentric human and
animal forms, which 1 would call the
coroplastic jiJutse of early pottery.
The decorations upon these are chiefly
those modeled or incised. This cate-
gory receives scant treatment at the
hands of most writers on Greek ceramics, and is practically left as an unknown quantity,
1 Furtwangler and Loeschcke, Mykenische Vasen and Klassischen Alterthums, article ' Vasenkiinde ;' Rayet et
Mykenische Thongefasse. Collignon, Hist. d. 1. Ceramique Grecque ; Dumont et
2 Cf. Yon Koliden in Baumeister's Denkmaler des Chaplain, Les Ceram. d. I. Grice Propre.
Fig. 2J
Mycenaean Vase (from Ialysus), naturalistic,
with lustrous glaze.
From Furtwangler and Loeschcke, Mykenische Vasen, pi. v.
No. 281.
GENERAL INTRODUCTION
Fig. 22. — Mycenaean Vase, with
dull unglazed color.
From Furtwangler and Loeschcke,
Mykenische Vasen, pi. xxiv. No. 175.
first impression which the excavations themselves forced
upon me, and feel justified in submitting them to the
judgment of archaeologists.
The preponderance on this site of so-called " Proto-
Ccrrinthian " ware attracted our attention at the very be-
ginning of the excavations. And when further the fact
forced itself upon our notice that in the distinctive char-
acteristics of this ware there was a continuity, not only in
its development from the earliest primitive to the latest
vases, but also from the most inferior and cheapest hand-
made vessel — probably sold for the smallest coin in the
booths of the local potter before the walls of the sanctuary,
together with the cheap and rude idols — to the most per-
fect specimen of delicate ceramic work, I then felt that we
here had to deal with local manufacture peculiar to the
Ileraeum or the Argive plain, to which I propose to give the name of Argive-Linear.
But if this be true, then the current and established classification of all the early Greek
pottery will have to be reconsidered,
and the modifications thus caused in
this important class of archaeological
evidence will tend to modify our views
with regard to the early history of the
Greek people.
The current view most widely ac-
cepted by archaeologists for the his-
torical classification of early Greek
pottery is chiefly based upon the funda-
mental work done by Furtwangler and
Loeschcke ' on Mycenaean vases. In a
brief form this classification is marked
by the following subdivisions.2
Primitive ware, for which we prac-
tically rely upon the finds of Hissar-
lik, consists chiefly of rough hand-
made pottery, either of the simplest
rounded bowl shape, with holes for
suspension by means of a cord instead
of handles, or eccentric human and
animal forms, which 1 would call the
coroplastic jiJutse of early pottery.
The decorations upon these are chiefly
those modeled or incised. This cate-
gory receives scant treatment at the
hands of most writers on Greek ceramics, and is practically left as an unknown quantity,
1 Furtwangler and Loeschcke, Mykenische Vasen and Klassischen Alterthums, article ' Vasenkiinde ;' Rayet et
Mykenische Thongefasse. Collignon, Hist. d. 1. Ceramique Grecque ; Dumont et
2 Cf. Yon Koliden in Baumeister's Denkmaler des Chaplain, Les Ceram. d. I. Grice Propre.
Fig. 2J
Mycenaean Vase (from Ialysus), naturalistic,
with lustrous glaze.
From Furtwangler and Loeschcke, Mykenische Vasen, pi. v.
No. 281.