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Mycenaean Vases at Torcello

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 December 2013

R. M. Dawkins
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In view of the importance of ascertaining the limits of the influence of the early civilization of the Aegean, the existence of four Mycenaean vases in the little museum at Torcello has a certain interest.

This museum contains a miscellaneous collection of antiquities, some dug up in the island itself or coming from the ecclesiastical buildings close by, some from the adjacent islands in the lagoon. Amongst a number of vases of later date are the four in question.

The first of these (No. 727) is a small pseudamphora of somewhat flattened form. The buff slip is decorated all over the body of the vase with bands of red glaze-paint. The spaces on the shoulder of the vase not occupied by the spout and handles are filled with parallel strokes gradually decreasing in length, which thus form the triangles of bars common on late Mycenaean ware.

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Research Article
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The Journal of Hellenic Studies , Volume 24 , November 1904 , pp. 125 - 128
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Copyright © The Society for the Promotion of Hellenic Studies 1904

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References

1 Both the figures are a little less than ½ size.

2 See especially F. and L. Pl. I. 3, and Pl. VIII. 43.

3 Quagliati, , Bulletino di Paletnologia-Italiana. Anno xxvi. 1900Google Scholar.

4 For the question of Mycenaean influence in the Terramare deposits of the lower valley of the Po, see Pigorini's article, Mon. ant. Vol. i. col. 143 sq.

5 A beehive tomb and other Mycenaean tombs have been found in Cephallenia at Masarakata, see Frazer, , Tansanias iii. p. 140Google Scholar.

6 Cf. ‘The Pottery of Knossos,’ Mackenzie, , J.H.S. xxiii, p. 201Google Scholar.