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Some ‘Late Minoan’ Vases found in Greece

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 December 2013

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The progress of excavations in Crete has made it possible to distinguish with some degree of certainty the native from the imported objects found on Mycenaean sites in Greece. The purpose of this paper is to make known some fine examples of ‘Late Minoan’ art found at Vaphio in Laconia, Phylakopi in Melos, and Mycenae itself, and to show on what grounds they are to be regarded as of Cretan workmanship.

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Copyright © The Society for the Promotion of Hellenic Studies 1904

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1 The butterfly-like creature which alternates with the nautilus on Plates XI. and XII. b does not seem to me to be justified by the fragment which suggested it. In all other points I agree with the restorers.

2 A smaller Eillustration of it is given in Excavations at Phylakopi, Pl. XXXI. 1.

3 J.H.S. xxiii. 190.

4 A good instance of a similar pattern in the old technique is a large jar, found in Thera but certainly imported from Crete, the neck of which is decorated with continuous clusters of white rosettes (now in great part obliterated) on a dark ground. It is in the collection of the French School at Athens.

5 Perrot and Chipiez, vi. Fig. 486.

6 P. and C. vi. Fig. 436, A. J. A. vi. 437.

7 P. and C. Fig. 485.

8 J.H.S. xvii. 12.

9 J.H.S. xxii. Pl. XII.

10 B.S.A. ix. p. 311.

11 B.S.A. ix. 285.

12 Bacchylides (ed. Kenyon), xvii. 81.

13 One is reproduced, upside-down, in Excavations at Phylakopi, Pl. XXXI. 2.

14 See Πρακτικά, 1899, p. 102. Some of the objects enumerated below seem to have been found in a second tomb adjoining the first, but they are not distinguished in the notes with which Professor Tsountas has so kindly furnished me.

15 Excavations at Phylakopi, p. 209; two such lamps of steatite and at least eight imitations in clay.

16 The spout of the Nauplia vase was made in a separate piece and is now missing, but the dowel-holes for affixing it can be seen.

17 Fourth Egyptian Room, Nos. 4638; 4639; 4644; 4646; 4729; 4734; 20,783; 24,417; 26,962; 36,383; 36,404; 36,405. For information about them I am indebted to Mr. H. R. Hall. Another is in the Fitzwilliam Museum at Cambridge.

18 Mr. J. L. Myres conjectures that the ware had a leathern prototype, presumably some where in Syria, ; see J.H.S. xvii. 151Google Scholar, and Cyprus Museum Catalogue, p. 37. Note that it reached Egypt earlier than Cyprus, where it appears almost simultaneously with Mycenaean ware of advanced type—not much earlier than Amenophis III.

19 No. 8316, from the Theremin Collection. Others of this type are in the British Museum and in Prof. Petrie's collection at University College.

20 Green-glazed ware No. 21,919, glass No. 22,819, in the British Museum.

21 D. Randall-Maeiver and A. C. Mace, ElAmrah and Abydos, Tomb D. 11, Pl. L. The tomb-group is in the Ashmolean Museum.

22 Price, Hilton, Catalogue of Egyptian Antiquities (1897)Google Scholar, No. 3330, with drawing. This form occurred also at El-Amrah, D. 17, D. 29 (with red-ware vase in form of gazelle), and D. 116 =Pl. XLVI., and in the Maket tomb at Kahun, the central point of which is placed by Prof. Petrie about the time of Thothmes III.

23 The hedgehog vase and the interesting class to which it belongs are discussed by Mr.Myres, J. L. in El-Amrah, pp. 7275Google Scholar. He concludes that they were made ‘(1) probably in Egypt, (2) in a fabric recently introduced from the Palestinian area, (3) under the influence of Aegean models and artistic and ceramic conventions.’

24 Garstang, John, El-Arábah, E., Tomb178Google Scholar, Pl. XIX.-XXI. and p. 27.

25 El-Amrah, D. 119, Pl. LV. 66, and pp. 92, 102.

26 Schliemann, , Mycenae, p. 243Google Scholar. Cf. also Excavations at Phylakopi, p. 136, Pl. XXVII. 8.

27 The reproduction in metal by M. Gilliéron is successful and convincing.

28 B.S.A. viii. 173.

29 In the Berlin Museum there is a little alabaster Bügelkannc, found in Egypt and presumably made there.

30 The Minoan potters copied this form in clay. One example found at Phaestus has the wave-markings of the alabaster imitated in paint.

31 B.S.A. vi. 41. The alabaster goblet found in the First Shaft-grave and its companion from Thera probably reproduce a Minoan metal-form.

32 B.S.A. vi. 41, vii. 119, ix. 60 ff. Compare his remarks in Excavations at Phylakopi, p. 181.

33 Schliemann, , Mycenae, p. 242Google Scholar, where one knot is erroneously described as of alabaster.

34 B.S.A. ix. p. 7.

35 One of this form from Tel-el-Yahûdîyyeh is in the British Museum, another in the York Museum.