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THE MYCENAEAN STYLE: THE BEE-HIVE TOMB
93
Pei^
Fig. 23.
Another jug precisely similar, but with spirals on the shoulder and plastic boss under the handle
was also found.
4. (Fig. 29.) Height, 0.078 m. Handle missing. Form similar to 1, but rather more rounded
and squat in appearance. Reddish clay, with black decoration laid on very thickly and cracked in
places. Bands and continuous spiral chain on the shoulder, with dots in the field.
Another similar jug with leaf pattern on shoulder was found.
5. (Fig. 23 a and b.) Height, 0.074 in.; diameter of cover, 0.075 m. One-handled vase with
cover. Form similar to Myk. Vas.
xliv. 115, except that here the
foot is lacking. Coarse red clay,
with dark core pierced by two rows
of holes, with a single row in the
cover. The use of this peculiar ves-
sel has never been satisfactorily ex-
plained : similar examples have been
found at Troy in the fourth city
(Schliemann, llios, p. 557, fig. 11,
96), and at Ialysos. (Myk. Vas. n. 15.) According to Furtwangler and Loeschcke these ves-
sels were used to burn incense or some sweet-smelling powder for sanitary reasons, and this expla-
nation seems very plausible, especially as we find the cover also pierced with holes.
Amphoras.
Form, Myk. Vas. xliv. 44, except for a slight variation in the
foot. Coarse brick red clay without decoration. The exterior
lias been entirely covered with a white wash, almost entirely
worn away.
The principal feature of this amphora lies in the white wash.
This, as is shown by many of our fragments, was a very common
feature, and half a dozen baskets are filled with fragments
showing it. Generally it seems to be employed on vases of
coarse clay, large pithoi or small wheel-made saucers. While
« this technique is employed very often on Mycenaean terra-cotta
figurines and later vases (e. g. the white lekythoi), it is ex-
tremely rare on archaic vases (two in Berlin, 1309, 1629), and
I know of no other instance in the Mycenaean style. From its
frequency in our fragments, it may perhaps be considered as a
local fashion.
Another small amphora (height, 0.09 m.) similar in shape, of
yellowish clay with a reddish tinge, but without the white wash, was found in the second layer.
7. (Fig. 25.) Height, 0.105 m. Light red clay, with
yellow slip. Faded black glaze over all, inside and out-
side (except base).
This vase differs from the ordinary Mycenaean am-
phora in that the handles have no connection with the
mouth of the vase. The absence of all decoration and
the presence of the glaze proves that a large part of the
glazed fragments which the Heraeum furnished must
be placed in the Mycenaean period.
8. Height, 0.07 m. ; form, Myk. Vas. xliv. 73.
Yellow clay, with red decoration very much faded.
Second layer.
This vase was identical with Myk. Vas. x. 64, XV.
99, except that around the shoulder ran a series of
ornaments similar to Plate LV. 24.
Fig. 24.
Fig. 25.
93
Pei^
Fig. 23.
Another jug precisely similar, but with spirals on the shoulder and plastic boss under the handle
was also found.
4. (Fig. 29.) Height, 0.078 m. Handle missing. Form similar to 1, but rather more rounded
and squat in appearance. Reddish clay, with black decoration laid on very thickly and cracked in
places. Bands and continuous spiral chain on the shoulder, with dots in the field.
Another similar jug with leaf pattern on shoulder was found.
5. (Fig. 23 a and b.) Height, 0.074 in.; diameter of cover, 0.075 m. One-handled vase with
cover. Form similar to Myk. Vas.
xliv. 115, except that here the
foot is lacking. Coarse red clay,
with dark core pierced by two rows
of holes, with a single row in the
cover. The use of this peculiar ves-
sel has never been satisfactorily ex-
plained : similar examples have been
found at Troy in the fourth city
(Schliemann, llios, p. 557, fig. 11,
96), and at Ialysos. (Myk. Vas. n. 15.) According to Furtwangler and Loeschcke these ves-
sels were used to burn incense or some sweet-smelling powder for sanitary reasons, and this expla-
nation seems very plausible, especially as we find the cover also pierced with holes.
Amphoras.
Form, Myk. Vas. xliv. 44, except for a slight variation in the
foot. Coarse brick red clay without decoration. The exterior
lias been entirely covered with a white wash, almost entirely
worn away.
The principal feature of this amphora lies in the white wash.
This, as is shown by many of our fragments, was a very common
feature, and half a dozen baskets are filled with fragments
showing it. Generally it seems to be employed on vases of
coarse clay, large pithoi or small wheel-made saucers. While
« this technique is employed very often on Mycenaean terra-cotta
figurines and later vases (e. g. the white lekythoi), it is ex-
tremely rare on archaic vases (two in Berlin, 1309, 1629), and
I know of no other instance in the Mycenaean style. From its
frequency in our fragments, it may perhaps be considered as a
local fashion.
Another small amphora (height, 0.09 m.) similar in shape, of
yellowish clay with a reddish tinge, but without the white wash, was found in the second layer.
7. (Fig. 25.) Height, 0.105 m. Light red clay, with
yellow slip. Faded black glaze over all, inside and out-
side (except base).
This vase differs from the ordinary Mycenaean am-
phora in that the handles have no connection with the
mouth of the vase. The absence of all decoration and
the presence of the glaze proves that a large part of the
glazed fragments which the Heraeum furnished must
be placed in the Mycenaean period.
8. Height, 0.07 m. ; form, Myk. Vas. xliv. 73.
Yellow clay, with red decoration very much faded.
Second layer.
This vase was identical with Myk. Vas. x. 64, XV.
99, except that around the shoulder ran a series of
ornaments similar to Plate LV. 24.
Fig. 24.
Fig. 25.