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Perhaps the main interest of the prehistoric deposit at Phylákopi consists in the fact that of sites hitherto excavated it alone covers the centuries which separate the Mycenaean age from the earliest culture known to us on Greek soil. To discover a few landmarks between those two limits and provide as far as possible a scale of comparison by which to determine the relative date of more isolated finds has been one leading aim of the excavation. For such a purpose no other material is so important as pottery, merely because no other material is so plentiful; in houses and tombs alike it is the one thing that is never lacking.
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page 41 note 1 See Fig. I, p. 12.
page 45 note 1 Part of the pottery of this period corresponds to F. and L.'s Mattmalerei, part to the Firnissmalerei, Style II. But for the present purpose it is more convenient to treat the native ware as a whole.
page 46 note 1 The illustrations on Pl. II. are from photographs of paintings by Miss Hogarth, which we hope to have reproduced in colour in the publication of the Phylákopi finds. One curious detail that is not apparent in the Plate is the lock of hair on the forehead of each fisherman, conventionalised exactly like the forelocks of the Kefti on the Egyptian tomb-painting.
page 46 note 2 For local pseudamphorae in Thera, see Dum. and Chapl. p. 26, No. 56, 57.