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DRAKdNES
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The method of construction is the normal, but the inward lean of the wall tholos z
is slight, which suggests that the tholos was unusually high, a surmise that is
strengthened by the height of the doorway, twice that found in any of the
other tholoi. This unusual height may have been the cause at a later date
of the building's being, as it seems, considered unsafe ; for it was strengthened
by the construction of an inner wall round the northern side of the surface,
which diminished its area. This seems to have been done in the third Late
Minoan period, for fragments of Mycenaean vases were found, among which
was a piece of one of the characteristic high-stemmed goblets or kylikes.
There was only a thin layer of bones, on the south side to the left of the
entrance, the rest of the tomb being quite empty.
The floor was of sand and gravel from the stream.
III. THE OBJECTS FOUND
The following objects were found chiefly with the burials outside the
tholoi :—
A. Clay Objects. clay objects
Owing to the hardness of the earth it was very difficult to get the numerous
vases out unbroken, but experience taught me to soak the soil well and let
it soften for a while.
The greater part of these vases consisted of jugs, deep bowls and basins,
and lids, household ware in fact, and the clay is almost always the same, buff
in colour and light in texture. All the vases were hand-made, with simple
decoration incised or in relief.
1. Large Jugs. (Plate XLI.)
There were about thirty large jugs, all of the same type, with a globular Large Jugs
belly pulled downwards a little to the flat base, a round neck rising to a broad
trough-like spout, and a rounded vertical handle joining neck and shoulder.
Their height varies from -20 m. to -25 m. Six are reproduced on the two
bottom rows of Plate XLI. Many of them have a button in relief on the neck
to either side of the handle, to represent an eye or a rivet-head.
Three had a black wash, which for the most part has come off; others
have faintly discernible bands or scrolls of black or brown paint.
Most of them have additional decoration in relief, either rope bands like
5672, or lines with serrated edge curving on a slant from neck to base like
4953 and 4955, or else knobs or bosses in horizontal rows like 5672, 4956, and
4957.
2. Small Low Jugs. (Plate XLI.)
There were about ten small jugs in shape like the modern teapot, with Small Jugs,
the trough spout at the end of a tube sticking out of the shoulder (the 'Teapots'
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The method of construction is the normal, but the inward lean of the wall tholos z
is slight, which suggests that the tholos was unusually high, a surmise that is
strengthened by the height of the doorway, twice that found in any of the
other tholoi. This unusual height may have been the cause at a later date
of the building's being, as it seems, considered unsafe ; for it was strengthened
by the construction of an inner wall round the northern side of the surface,
which diminished its area. This seems to have been done in the third Late
Minoan period, for fragments of Mycenaean vases were found, among which
was a piece of one of the characteristic high-stemmed goblets or kylikes.
There was only a thin layer of bones, on the south side to the left of the
entrance, the rest of the tomb being quite empty.
The floor was of sand and gravel from the stream.
III. THE OBJECTS FOUND
The following objects were found chiefly with the burials outside the
tholoi :—
A. Clay Objects. clay objects
Owing to the hardness of the earth it was very difficult to get the numerous
vases out unbroken, but experience taught me to soak the soil well and let
it soften for a while.
The greater part of these vases consisted of jugs, deep bowls and basins,
and lids, household ware in fact, and the clay is almost always the same, buff
in colour and light in texture. All the vases were hand-made, with simple
decoration incised or in relief.
1. Large Jugs. (Plate XLI.)
There were about thirty large jugs, all of the same type, with a globular Large Jugs
belly pulled downwards a little to the flat base, a round neck rising to a broad
trough-like spout, and a rounded vertical handle joining neck and shoulder.
Their height varies from -20 m. to -25 m. Six are reproduced on the two
bottom rows of Plate XLI. Many of them have a button in relief on the neck
to either side of the handle, to represent an eye or a rivet-head.
Three had a black wash, which for the most part has come off; others
have faintly discernible bands or scrolls of black or brown paint.
Most of them have additional decoration in relief, either rope bands like
5672, or lines with serrated edge curving on a slant from neck to base like
4953 and 4955, or else knobs or bosses in horizontal rows like 5672, 4956, and
4957.
2. Small Low Jugs. (Plate XLI.)
There were about ten small jugs in shape like the modern teapot, with Small Jugs,
the trough spout at the end of a tube sticking out of the shoulder (the 'Teapots'