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Minoan Pottery from Cyprus, and the Origin of the Mycenean style

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 December 2013

E. J. Forsdyke
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The recent enthusiasm of English explorers for the prehistoric antiquities of Greece, if involving some neglect of things ‘merely Hellenic,’ has at least resulted happily in the enrichment of our museums. The Minoan civilisation can at present be studied only in Crete, England, and America; and while the journey to Crete is always necessary for an adequate understanding of the subject, the introductory idea can be better acquired at home, where the material is limited by selection and less bewildering in bulk and variety. Crete and Minoan art are naturally associated with the Ashmolean Museum; and it is perhaps overlooked that the British Museum has at the same time acquired, by gift of excavators and of the Committee of the British School at Athens, a collection of originals and reproductions not indeed comparing with the splendour of Oxford, but valuable in representing most of the important sites, and especially useful to students in possessing an arranged series of sherds of every period.

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The Journal of Hellenic Studies , Volume 31 , November 1911 , pp. 110 - 118
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Copyright © The Society for the Promotion of Hellenic Studies 1911

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2 These bear the following numbers in the volume of the Catalogue of Vases which will shortly appear: C 173, C 174, C 438, C 522; the Kamares sherd is A 231.

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