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Note on the Fragment of a Painted Pinax from Praesos

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 October 2013

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On p. 240 sqq. of the B.S.A. Annual, vol. viii., Mr. R. C. Bosanquet has described a tomb opened by him at Praesos during the excavations of 1901. The tomb had originally been of the ‘beehive’ type though the upper portion had been broken before the excavators opened it. The layer of earth constituting the original floor of the tomb was covered to a depth of nearly two feet with a tightly packed deposit of broken pottery, whilst in a small vestibule leading into the tomb from the dromos a few better preserved vases were found. Owing to the confusion caused by the later use of the tomb and by the fall of the roofing stones it is difficult to make out any stratification in the deposit, but on the analogy of the Menidi tomb Mr. Bosanquet would explain the large quantity of pottery found here as the result of a long period of hero-worship. The bulk of the pottery is of the Geometric period and comprises a sequence of at least several generations. Nothing of indisputably Mycenaean date was found in the tomb, and the latest objects that came to light were two small fragments of red-figure ware.

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Copyright © The Council, British School at Athens 1904

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References

page 150 note 1 A.J.A. 1901, Plates III. and IV.

page 150 note 2 Cf. B.C.H. 1897, pp. 169–183.

page 150 note 3 J. H. S. vol. xxii. p. 47 sq.

page 151 note 1 Fora list vide Roscher, Lexicon, p. 2193 The. Assos frieze and the Poros pediment both shew the type as modified by the limitations of an architectural setting. The bronze relief from Olympia more closely resembles the plate in the arrangement of the figures, though Herakles there carries a quiver and the monster is represented with human head turned back towards Herakles. Its great importance lies in the inscription which gives a definite name to the type and shews that it belongs to Peloponnesian as well as Ionian art.

page 151 note 2 So the B. M. Catalogue, with a query.

page 152 note 1 That this object cannot really be the foot of a female figure, as is suggested by its shape and colour, seems to be certain from its scale and lack of detail. Hardly less impossible is the supposition that it can represent a landscape setting for the scene, unless, with some reminiscence of Mycenaean marine paintings, it indicates a rock.

page 152 note 2 Athen. Mitt. 1897, pl. VIII.