THE EARLY AGE OF GREECE VOL.I by W.Ridgeway 1901

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PREHISTORIC REMAINS AND THEIR DISTRIBUTION. 13
chasing five gazelles; he has ah-eady seized the hindmost, the
rest are in headlong flight ; on the other face five hunters have
closed with three lions
;
one lion has pounced on the foremost
man, who lies on the ground entangled in his shield his
;
comrades hasten to help and the other lions retreat. The men
have only a loin-apron, and are armed, one with a bow, the rest
with long spears. The men have large shields of two kinds
slung from their shoulders, " notched oval and oblong shields
alternating."
Twenty bronze arrow-heads in two bundles of ten each
were found in a chambered tomb in the Lower Town^
14 PREHISTORIC REMAINS AND THEIR DISTRIBUTION.
a sharp point when the clay was still wet. It is found along
with the finer sorts of painted ware, and doubtless continued
to be used for common domestic pm-poses at all periods.
It is
of a coarser clay, sometimes hand-made, though mostly made
Stone. Two polished hatchets of diorite (Fig. 9), many
knives of obsidian, and 35 arrowheads
of the same substance were
found in Grave IV.
Stone was still
in use for a variety of small vessels
(usually oval or bowl-shaped), spoons,
cups and jars. They are as a rule
plain,
or sometimes decorated with
incised lines.
They fre(jiieiitly have
no handles, but have small holes
about the brim for fastening
on tht'
lid. Some have projections piei'ced
for a cord after a fashion which we
shall find nuich employed
in teiiacotta
vessels at Hissarlik. Tliere
were also large vessels and great
bowls with spiral
reliefs or other
ornaments. One of greenisli i|U;irtz
is adorned with a cuttlefish
relief".
There were many alabaster vessels, inchidiiig a \er}' elegant
three-handled vase ((irave
1\'.).
Potter>/. There are three chief kinds: (1) iVrch.iic hioikichronie
])ottery,
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