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THE VASES AND VASE FRAGMENTS
older than "lustrous," certainty on this.point is impossible. The character of the dull
style is linear and as such more in keeping with the prehistoric motives; also as the
invention of a lustrous glaze is a distinct innovation in ceramic art, it is probably an
improvement on the " dull " technique. But that the manufacture of dull vases continued
almost as long as that of lustrous vases, is proved by the fact that both dull and lustrous
fragments lay side by side in the same levels.
VASES WITH DULL DECORATION.
Four small vases (to be described later) and about fifty fragments of this style were
found, none belonging to very large vases. To establish a classification with a material
so scanty and unsatisfactory is impossible. Furtwangler and Loeschcke divide this type
into two classes: (a) vases made of red clay (" Rotthonig ") and (b) vases of pale clay
(" Blassthonig"). Such a classification in the case of the Heraeum fragments proved im-
possible, since the clay ran through the various shades of red, yellow, gray, and green,
and no vital difference in the decorative forms of fragments of red or pale clay could be
distinguished, and the polish, according to Furtwangler and Loeschcke, a characteristic
feature of class a, was noticeable only on vases of pale clay.
It is true that the majority of our dull fragments show a decoration decidedly linear
in feeling, and also that some show a pictorial or naturalistic decoration very similar to
vases of the lustrous style. That the first are the earlier of the two seems probable. At
the same time the difference is not so great as to warrant our assio-nino- the fragments to
different classes, since many fragments bearing linear motives may well have belonged to
vases which also showed pictorial ornamentation and vice versa. The classification of
fragments alone is far more unreliable than that based upon entire vases. Hence, in the
ease of " dull" fragments, no attempt has been made to separate them into two classes,
though they have been arranged with a view to the character of their ornamentation, be
it linear or pictorial.
Only the most important fragments are shown in Plate LI. There were many which
bore no decoration, though clearly belonging to the same vases as some of the fragments
here reproduced; many again bore only a part of a band or stripe running around the
belly. A certain difference can be detected in that in some of the fragments the clay
is covered with a fine slip and in some not. The majority of the fragments show this
feature, which seems to have been a characteristic of the style from its beginning, since
even those vases with the simplest linear decoration show it. As it runs through all the
shades of clay, it offers no ground for classification. The polishing of the surface seems
to have been the general custom. The clay runs through all varieties and colors, from
a very coarse variety with black stones still apparent on the surface to extremely fine
clay, cleaned and polished. The majority of the vases and fragments were made on the
wheel, though a few are hand-made.
FRAGMENTS.
PLATE LI.
1. From bowl with large opening. Form, Myh. Vas. xliv. 48: height, 0.165 m.; width,
0.125 m. Coarse pale greenish clay, polished on outside and inside. On inner part of rim series
of three short parallel dashes. Decoration in black, faded. Cf. Myh. Thong, iv. 17.
2. From one-handled-cup. Form, Myh. Vas. xliv. 98: width, 0.118 m.; height, 0.068 m.
THE VASES AND VASE FRAGMENTS
older than "lustrous," certainty on this.point is impossible. The character of the dull
style is linear and as such more in keeping with the prehistoric motives; also as the
invention of a lustrous glaze is a distinct innovation in ceramic art, it is probably an
improvement on the " dull " technique. But that the manufacture of dull vases continued
almost as long as that of lustrous vases, is proved by the fact that both dull and lustrous
fragments lay side by side in the same levels.
VASES WITH DULL DECORATION.
Four small vases (to be described later) and about fifty fragments of this style were
found, none belonging to very large vases. To establish a classification with a material
so scanty and unsatisfactory is impossible. Furtwangler and Loeschcke divide this type
into two classes: (a) vases made of red clay (" Rotthonig ") and (b) vases of pale clay
(" Blassthonig"). Such a classification in the case of the Heraeum fragments proved im-
possible, since the clay ran through the various shades of red, yellow, gray, and green,
and no vital difference in the decorative forms of fragments of red or pale clay could be
distinguished, and the polish, according to Furtwangler and Loeschcke, a characteristic
feature of class a, was noticeable only on vases of pale clay.
It is true that the majority of our dull fragments show a decoration decidedly linear
in feeling, and also that some show a pictorial or naturalistic decoration very similar to
vases of the lustrous style. That the first are the earlier of the two seems probable. At
the same time the difference is not so great as to warrant our assio-nino- the fragments to
different classes, since many fragments bearing linear motives may well have belonged to
vases which also showed pictorial ornamentation and vice versa. The classification of
fragments alone is far more unreliable than that based upon entire vases. Hence, in the
ease of " dull" fragments, no attempt has been made to separate them into two classes,
though they have been arranged with a view to the character of their ornamentation, be
it linear or pictorial.
Only the most important fragments are shown in Plate LI. There were many which
bore no decoration, though clearly belonging to the same vases as some of the fragments
here reproduced; many again bore only a part of a band or stripe running around the
belly. A certain difference can be detected in that in some of the fragments the clay
is covered with a fine slip and in some not. The majority of the fragments show this
feature, which seems to have been a characteristic of the style from its beginning, since
even those vases with the simplest linear decoration show it. As it runs through all the
shades of clay, it offers no ground for classification. The polishing of the surface seems
to have been the general custom. The clay runs through all varieties and colors, from
a very coarse variety with black stones still apparent on the surface to extremely fine
clay, cleaned and polished. The majority of the vases and fragments were made on the
wheel, though a few are hand-made.
FRAGMENTS.
PLATE LI.
1. From bowl with large opening. Form, Myh. Vas. xliv. 48: height, 0.165 m.; width,
0.125 m. Coarse pale greenish clay, polished on outside and inside. On inner part of rim series
of three short parallel dashes. Decoration in black, faded. Cf. Myh. Thong, iv. 17.
2. From one-handled-cup. Form, Myh. Vas. xliv. 98: width, 0.118 m.; height, 0.068 m.