DOI Seite / Zitierlink:
https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.2533#0136
"in...
1
THE MYCENAEAN STYLE: JUGS
99
t/w/.s.
These numbered over five hundred and formed the majority of all the Heraeum vases
intact or partially so. The greater part of them are wheel-made. As usual two classes
of these were observed, those with decoration and those without. The greater part of
the undecorated vases were exactly similar in size, form, and technique to the decorated
vases, but a sj)ecial class of hand-made undecorated vases existed which demands a more
careful discussion.
i.
Without .Decoration.
These vases all show the same peculiarities. The clay is of a dark red or yellow, the
outside of which has undergone a very brilliant polish, and in some cases through the
action of the fire has become bright red in places. Two shapes are represented. One-
handled jugs or oinochoai and three-handled jugs. All are small, the largest not more
than 12 cm. in height.
We are able to date with a fair degree of certainty the period in which these vases
fall. First, one specimen of the handled jugs had on the shoulder a wavy band which is
decidedly dull, not lustrous in character; secondly, other specimens have been found in a
grave at Syracuse along with vases of the Argive style (second period).1 Thus we obtain
two termini, which show that these vases were manufactured as early as the Mycenaean
dull period (fifteenth century) and as late as the Middle Argive period (eighth century).
Most of the shapes are similar to those used in the Argive style, only slightly more
primitive in character, and naturally so, seeing that they are hand-made. A very few, which
show the most developed form, are wheel-made and are probably the latest. At the same
time the example from the Syracusan grave is certainly hand-made, showing that the use
of the wheel was not universal even in that period of advanced archaism.
One-handled Jugs.
Two distinct forms may be noted, those with a circular and those with a trefoil rim
(oinochoe). The latter show a technique more advanced, which fact, together with the
form, assigns them to a later date than the first essays. At the same time it is certain
that the oinochoe with trefoil lip is a form known to the Mycenaean epoch." Further we
find that the body is either round with a handle rising above the rim, or cylindrical with
the top of the handle level with the rim.
Fig. 35. Height, 0.035 m. Handle restored. On either side is a small boss, perhaps repre-
senting a handle. On shoulder two straight lines and a wavy band in dull
technique.
Several other examples of this same shape were found, but this jug alone pos-
sessed any decoration.
A few examples were found where the neck is slightly longer in proportion to
the body and the handle dipped lower than the rim. Cf. Hios, Fig. 1140.
>
Fig. 3£
1 Tomb 305. Tomb 65 from Megara Hyblaea also
contained a similar vase. The same polish was observed
on a lekythos from the Heraeum (height, 0.05 m.), of dark
gray clav, the shape rather advanced, being that of the
lekythos on p. 127. fig. 54. At Syracuse (tomb 428), a
specimen exactly identical was found along with lekythoi
belonging to the oriental Argive period. The vases found
by Wide at Aphidna (Athen. Mitt. p. 385 ff. pi. xiv.)
seem to show a similar technique, but are not so ad-
vanced in form. It would seem fairly safe to assign both
our vase and that from Syracuse to the period succeeding
the Mycenaean style.
2 Vide Furtwangler, Arch. Anz. 1893, p. 9.
1
THE MYCENAEAN STYLE: JUGS
99
t/w/.s.
These numbered over five hundred and formed the majority of all the Heraeum vases
intact or partially so. The greater part of them are wheel-made. As usual two classes
of these were observed, those with decoration and those without. The greater part of
the undecorated vases were exactly similar in size, form, and technique to the decorated
vases, but a sj)ecial class of hand-made undecorated vases existed which demands a more
careful discussion.
i.
Without .Decoration.
These vases all show the same peculiarities. The clay is of a dark red or yellow, the
outside of which has undergone a very brilliant polish, and in some cases through the
action of the fire has become bright red in places. Two shapes are represented. One-
handled jugs or oinochoai and three-handled jugs. All are small, the largest not more
than 12 cm. in height.
We are able to date with a fair degree of certainty the period in which these vases
fall. First, one specimen of the handled jugs had on the shoulder a wavy band which is
decidedly dull, not lustrous in character; secondly, other specimens have been found in a
grave at Syracuse along with vases of the Argive style (second period).1 Thus we obtain
two termini, which show that these vases were manufactured as early as the Mycenaean
dull period (fifteenth century) and as late as the Middle Argive period (eighth century).
Most of the shapes are similar to those used in the Argive style, only slightly more
primitive in character, and naturally so, seeing that they are hand-made. A very few, which
show the most developed form, are wheel-made and are probably the latest. At the same
time the example from the Syracusan grave is certainly hand-made, showing that the use
of the wheel was not universal even in that period of advanced archaism.
One-handled Jugs.
Two distinct forms may be noted, those with a circular and those with a trefoil rim
(oinochoe). The latter show a technique more advanced, which fact, together with the
form, assigns them to a later date than the first essays. At the same time it is certain
that the oinochoe with trefoil lip is a form known to the Mycenaean epoch." Further we
find that the body is either round with a handle rising above the rim, or cylindrical with
the top of the handle level with the rim.
Fig. 35. Height, 0.035 m. Handle restored. On either side is a small boss, perhaps repre-
senting a handle. On shoulder two straight lines and a wavy band in dull
technique.
Several other examples of this same shape were found, but this jug alone pos-
sessed any decoration.
A few examples were found where the neck is slightly longer in proportion to
the body and the handle dipped lower than the rim. Cf. Hios, Fig. 1140.
>
Fig. 3£
1 Tomb 305. Tomb 65 from Megara Hyblaea also
contained a similar vase. The same polish was observed
on a lekythos from the Heraeum (height, 0.05 m.), of dark
gray clav, the shape rather advanced, being that of the
lekythos on p. 127. fig. 54. At Syracuse (tomb 428), a
specimen exactly identical was found along with lekythoi
belonging to the oriental Argive period. The vases found
by Wide at Aphidna (Athen. Mitt. p. 385 ff. pi. xiv.)
seem to show a similar technique, but are not so ad-
vanced in form. It would seem fairly safe to assign both
our vase and that from Syracuse to the period succeeding
the Mycenaean style.
2 Vide Furtwangler, Arch. Anz. 1893, p. 9.