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THE VAULTED TOMBS OF MESAIIA
the As for size, the diameter runs from -05 m. to -12 m., but is usually about
cemetery >Q7 m Qr .og m gome of them? jj^e 1850 (piate XI), are exceptionally low.
The two largest, 1808 and 1809, are shown in Plate LII, the one of blue-
Bird s Nest Vases marble, the other of red slate. Their diameter is about -14 m., but the
cavity is only -05 m. across.
The specimens illustrated on Plates XI and LII show the incised ornament
and the hollows for inlay.
Nos. 1818, 1833, 1834, 1842, 1845, 1850, 1857, and 1907. In all these, as
in most Early Minoan stone vessels, the cavity is so small that we may well
doubt if they had more than a symbolic use.
All the above are without handles, but one, 1860 (Plate LII), has two
elongated lugs.
(c) Conical vases. (Plate LII, top row.)
Conical Vases Five variants of the bird's nest form have the shape of an inverted truncated
cone, Avith two small upright arched handles and a trough spout, either open
as in 1910 (also Plate XI), or pierced through the wall of the vase which forms
a bridge over it as in 1911 (Plate LII), the whole being the familiar 'Kamares'
clay form. All five have hollows for inlay, while three have incised ornament.
(d) Pear-shaped vases. (Plate LIII a.)
Pear-shaped Vases About a dozen vases, for the most part small, have a shape that narrows
towards the top. Pear-shaped is a convenient name, though some of them
differ little from the bird's nest form. They have a very small circular base
and a narrow projecting rim. Most of them are of coloured marble or breccia.
Of the latter, one, 1689, is illustrated in Plate XII; others, Nos. 1682, 1683,
1690, 1691, 1693, and 1966, are shown in Plate LIII a.
1683. This, which is one of a pair in black steatite, with incised ornament
and the usual hollows, preserves a piece of white stone inlay.
(e) Calyx-shaped vases. (Plates XII and LIII a.)
Calyx-shaped Another class has a shape the opposite of the preceding, broad at the top
Vases an(j narrow at the base. They too have a narrow offset rim. Most of them
are of hard breccia without decoration. Four, 1676, 1695, 1878, 1879, are
illustrated in the bottom row of Plate LIII a ; and three, 1678, of alabaster,
1677 and 1968, of polychrome breccia, in Plate XII.
(f) Vases of pithos shape. (Plates XI, XII, and LIII a, top row.)
Vases of Pithos Nine small vases have the high narrow shape that belongs to the large
Shape pithos.
The majority are of bluish-white marble. Three, 1669, 1671, and 1672,
have shallow incised lines at wide intervals, vertical, horizontal, and slantwise
THE VAULTED TOMBS OF MESAIIA
the As for size, the diameter runs from -05 m. to -12 m., but is usually about
cemetery >Q7 m Qr .og m gome of them? jj^e 1850 (piate XI), are exceptionally low.
The two largest, 1808 and 1809, are shown in Plate LII, the one of blue-
Bird s Nest Vases marble, the other of red slate. Their diameter is about -14 m., but the
cavity is only -05 m. across.
The specimens illustrated on Plates XI and LII show the incised ornament
and the hollows for inlay.
Nos. 1818, 1833, 1834, 1842, 1845, 1850, 1857, and 1907. In all these, as
in most Early Minoan stone vessels, the cavity is so small that we may well
doubt if they had more than a symbolic use.
All the above are without handles, but one, 1860 (Plate LII), has two
elongated lugs.
(c) Conical vases. (Plate LII, top row.)
Conical Vases Five variants of the bird's nest form have the shape of an inverted truncated
cone, Avith two small upright arched handles and a trough spout, either open
as in 1910 (also Plate XI), or pierced through the wall of the vase which forms
a bridge over it as in 1911 (Plate LII), the whole being the familiar 'Kamares'
clay form. All five have hollows for inlay, while three have incised ornament.
(d) Pear-shaped vases. (Plate LIII a.)
Pear-shaped Vases About a dozen vases, for the most part small, have a shape that narrows
towards the top. Pear-shaped is a convenient name, though some of them
differ little from the bird's nest form. They have a very small circular base
and a narrow projecting rim. Most of them are of coloured marble or breccia.
Of the latter, one, 1689, is illustrated in Plate XII; others, Nos. 1682, 1683,
1690, 1691, 1693, and 1966, are shown in Plate LIII a.
1683. This, which is one of a pair in black steatite, with incised ornament
and the usual hollows, preserves a piece of white stone inlay.
(e) Calyx-shaped vases. (Plates XII and LIII a.)
Calyx-shaped Another class has a shape the opposite of the preceding, broad at the top
Vases an(j narrow at the base. They too have a narrow offset rim. Most of them
are of hard breccia without decoration. Four, 1676, 1695, 1878, 1879, are
illustrated in the bottom row of Plate LIII a ; and three, 1678, of alabaster,
1677 and 1968, of polychrome breccia, in Plate XII.
(f) Vases of pithos shape. (Plates XI, XII, and LIII a, top row.)
Vases of Pithos Nine small vases have the high narrow shape that belongs to the large
Shape pithos.
The majority are of bluish-white marble. Three, 1669, 1671, and 1672,
have shallow incised lines at wide intervals, vertical, horizontal, and slantwise