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Some Geometric Pottery from Crete
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 18 October 2013
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In the spring of 1906 I spent some time in the Museum at Candia, studying the Cretan Geometric pottery. In particular my attention was devoted to two large groups hitherto unpublished, the one from Praesos excavated by Mr. R. C. Bosanquet and Mr. J. H. Marshall in 1901 and the other discovered by a local tomb-hunter, ᾿Ιωάμμης Χατζιλάρης in 1902, in a tomb near Adhromyloi, two hours south-west of Praesos, and confiscated by the local authorities.
To these I added two groups, the one of five vases from Vavelloi, a village almost on the site of ancient Praesos, and the other, consisting of four vases, from a field on the road between Haghios Nikolaos and Mirabello, which latter group I have to thank Dr. Joseph Hazzidakes for permission to publish.
The clay of the large majority of the vases is of a rather soft nature and buff in colour, often, however, especially in the Adhromyloi group, slightly tinged with pink. The paint used is generally a sepia without much glaze, varying in shade according to its thickness and the amount of baking which it received. This normal clay and paint is to be assumed in what follows, unless there be a note.
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page 25 note 1 A square shaft-grave excavated by Mr. Bosanquet. See plan and section, and description of its arrangement and contents in B.S.A. viii. pp. 249 ff. The chief interment contained an unburied skeleton with an iron sword at the right side, and upwards of thirty vases.
page 25 note 2 B.S.A viii. 250, and Pl. IX.
page 26 note 1 The numbers are those of the Museum Catalogue.
page 26 note 2 Cf. Pfuhl, , Athen. Mitt. 1903.Google Scholar
page 27 note 1 Compare the illustration or 1992, Fig. 6, where, however, the pattern is inverted.
page 28 note 1 This was a small chamber tomb cut in the hard sub-soil on the west side of the gravel ridge, which lies on the west side of the path from Vavelloi to the site of Praesos, the only Geometric tomb found on that side of the ridge. It had a low floorway formed of three blocks of free stone. The roof and sides had crumbled inwards, and it was difficult to ascertain its original form.
page 36 note 1 A.J.A. 1897, p. 260.
page 36 note 2 See p. 38.
page 38 note 1 See Wide, ‘Nachleben Mykenischer Ornamente.’
page 39 note 1 A.J.A. 1897, p. 260.
page 42 note 1 See Dragendorff, , Thera, Vol. ii. Abb. 8.Google Scholar
page 50 note 1 This shape is not uncommon in the Koúrtes Geometric vases (cf. A.J.A. 1901, p. 311). In origin it is Mycenaean (cf. Furtwängler, and Löschcke, , Mykenische Vasen, Pl. XI. 66Google Scholar).
page 53 note 1 A similar pattern occurs in the white-on-dark technique on a vase from Kavousi, , cf. A.J.A. 1901, p. 146.Google Scholar
page 54 note 1 Cf. Furtwängler, , Jahrbuch, 1886, p. 135.Google Scholar
page 56 note 1 Cf. 2348, 2350, 2353 in the Candia Museum.
page 56 note 2 This technique is quite exceptional and produces an effect much resembling the fourth century ware from Canosa in Apulia.
page 57 note 1 Cf. Orsi, , A.J.A. 1897Google Scholar for a similar lid, 238 in the Candia Museum; 769 is a lid of the same type bought at Kavousi by Mr. A. J. Evans.
page 57 note 2 Two similar lids, 770, 771, come from Kavousi.
page 58 note 1 Cf. Pfahl, , Athen. Mitt. 1903, p. 96.Google Scholar
page 59 note 1 Thera, Vol. ii.
page 59 note 2 Wide, Geometrische Vasen.
page 59 note 3 Pfuhl, , Athen. Mitt. 1903, p. 147.Google Scholar
page 60 note 1 Collignon and Couve, Nos. 413, 414; cf. Böhlau, , Jahrbuch, 1887, p. 34.Google Scholar
page 60 note 2 Cf. Ilios, p. 449 (No. 433), pp. 610, 611 (Nos. 1141, 1143, 1146).
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page 61 note 1 B.C.H. 1906, pp. 20 seq.
page 61 note 2 Mykenische Vasen.
page 61 note 3 Ridgeway, Early Age of Greece, Vol i.