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

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PREHISTORIC REMAINS AND THEIR DISTRIBUTION. 33
34 PREHISTORIC REMAINS AND THEIR DISTRIBUTION.
M. Miaulis, however, had long before excavated on Salamis
rosette surrounded by four returning spirals.
It is a typical
a grave containing Mycenean pottery ^
example of the Mycenean style.
The diadems are adorned with
punctured patterns of double rows of returning spirals between
Aegina.
parallel lines and resemble those from Grave IV. at Mycenae.
Ah'eady in 1878 Mycenean remains had been found near
One pendant consists of two open-work plates, the upper one of
the so-called temple of Aphrodite^. M. Staes has since
which is embossed with a design of a man standing on a base
discovered, near the harbour of the modem town and close to
like a lotus-tipped boat, and holding two waterfowl. The
the so-called temple of Aphrodite, the remains of dwellings
motive resembles that on a gem\ on which is seen a female
and many fragments of pottery ^ This was once perhaps a
divinity grasping two swans. A similar is design on a bronze
primitive acropolis. The chambers are built of small stones
at Bologna, and on another in the British Museum. Another
bonded with mortar. The pottery ranges from two vases of the
pendant exhibits a design composed of dogs, apes, pendant
suspension type almost cylindrical
in form to glazed fragments
discs, and owls. On another ornament are pendant ducks.
of the most advanced stage of Mycenean ceramics. The suspension
Another pendant
is formed of a flat curved plate ending in two
vases are similar to one found on the Acropolis of Athens.
repousse heads, the eyes and eyebrows of which were originally
There was dull black ware similar to that found at Kapandriti
tilled with glass, a small portion of which still remains ;
ten
and presenting an island type ; another vessel resembles a
small gold discs depend from the chins of the terminal heads
well-known Theraean type, whilst another is adorned with
and the plate between them.
linear and spiral designs and checkers in black and white, and
There is also a necklace of gold and carnelian beads, with
with alternate bands of black and white.
pcTidants which consist alternately of ^jlass paste and gold plate
In the British Museum there is a splendid treasure of gold
in the form of a hand grasping a woman's breast, from which
objects obtained from a tomb in Aegina some few years ago-*.
hangs a small acorn formed of an olive-green stone in a gold
It comprises a beautiful gold cuj),
tive necklaces, four pendants,
cup (Fig. 22 D). In a sort of pit adjoining the temple of
four diadems, one bracelet of solid gold,
five solid gold rings of
Aphrodite was found a very archaic terra-cotta image of a
nearly uniform weight and of the same standard as the gold
goddess with hei- hands grasping her breasts as in these
rings and spirals from the I'oyal gi'aves at Mycenae (])p. 8
pendants-. But a gold relief from Rhodes (Fig. 22 a) in the
and 36), five finger-rings iidaid with glass ])aste, and fifty-four
British Museum, now tigured for the first time, shows a more
gold buttons such as would be fastened on a garmont for
com})Iet(! analogy in gold, as do also two other gold reliefs in
oi-nanient, in the same iiianurr as tin- discs found in (iiavc III.
the case with ai-ticles from Sai'dinia in the Bi'itish Museum
at Mycenae. The cup
is ot'
pure gold and weighs S.')-(! giainnies.
(Fig. 22 1'., (), one of which is also figured here for the first time.
It has lost its single handle, anil somewhat rescinblrs the
Oik; is fioni the Hlacas Collectien, but the provenance of each is
two-handled cup from (li-a\'e I \'. at Mycenae, though the latter
unknown'. All these rest'mble the little gold figure from
is not, so shallow. Its decoi-alion within consists (f a ceiitial
(irave 111. at Mycenae^ (p 10).
One of the gold rings has a bezel in the shape of a Boeotian
t'ui twiin^'ler and Jync,~clic, p.
tl.
p. (Tiif. /(/. tl XXI. I"i")); a vase nlitaiiicii in Athens l)nt |ir(il)at)l\ fnund
and Miuuitt, Fi;,'. ',)'.(.
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in At'^ina (iinl style). Near the temple of Aphioilit.' almost all kind-, of
StiU'S, F.pli. Airli. Isl).'), I'l. 12.
Prof. Furtwiui^'l.i, who li^'iiiid c
Mycenean ])otsherds were (op. cit.,
discDveied.
its j.rovciijuict: as Sardinia, was misled
Tsuuntas and
h.y tho
Manatt, ap.