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

PREHISTORIC REMAINS AND THEIR DISTRIBUTION. 47
48 PREHISTORIC REMAINS AND THEIR DISTRIBUTION.
Lead. There was a small idol representing a nude female
the pottery discovered in the earlier excavations, and Vienna
with long curls over her ears, her arms crossed on the breast,
had already possessed
a vase found at Troy\
and a swastika on the belly.
It is
important to observe that the local monochrome
Pottery. The most remarkable of the vases are imitations
pottery is found abundantly in all the strata, a fact which
indicates a
of the human face. As these develop tliey resemble the
continuity of at least the great mass of the population.
human form more and more. At first the eyes and nose are
only .scratched on the clay then they are moulded, and then
;
two ears are added, the co\ er appears as a hat or conical cap,
SCYTHIA.
and the old protuberances for suspensory cords become female
breasts. Finally the vessel receives human arms, which are
Fantacapaeum (Kertch). A beehive tomb in plan and
even made to carry another vessel.
construction closely resembling the beehive tombs of Greece
There are also vases imitating the lower animals, such as
was discovered at Kertch, but there was nothing in it. But
])ig, mole, and hippopotamus.
recently a figure in the true Mycenean style has come to
light
in that region-.
Ivor
I). (3bjects carved in ivory were also found; for example,
the handle of a knife.
Rude idols in stone wei'e also found.
The Islands.
Burial. Two skeletons of warriors buried with their bronze
As far back as 1845 Ross called attention to the prehistoric
spears were found in the second stratum. Most of the interments
found by Scldieuiann appear to belong to the e{)och
that they might be attributed to the Carians, basing this
cemeteries of the Cyclades, and at the same time he suggested
after the destruction of the Second City, for with the exception
assumption on the fact that marble idols, marble vessels, and
of the .'skeletons from the second stratum, Schliemann only
knives of obsidian are found in them. Modern researches, such
found urns containing fine ashes. Once a tt)oth was found in
as those of Dummler and Bent, have largely increased ouiknowledge,
and we know that the objects found in the island
an urn, and once a skull wanting the under jaw. On the citadel
two urns were fouTid on the viigin level of the First City. The
graves (which from one to another show a considerable advance)
fact that an unburnt skull was fourul in an urn indicates that
are "one and ;ill the relics of an industry whose separate })ieces
the practicu' of placing the dead in jnt/ioi, as at Thoriciis and
offer enough variety to enable us to affirm that its season of
elsewhere, was also in vogue in the Troad.
activity covered a long series of years, yet sufficiently alike tit
The smaller finds of gold, which took place chiefiy
in LSTS
admit of (Mir attributing them to a single peopled"
on various spots between the S.W. gate and the palace, show us
Tiiese gi'aves ai'e found in
Amorgus, Anti])ar()s, Cythnus,
the regular Mycenean
lornis wdiere the spiral and rosi'tte are
supreme, as is si'en in a bracudet, earring, and los, Thera, Naxos and the Eremonisian gi'ou]) to the south of
hair-pins. Thrre
Naxos, Rlienea, anil '
Syra. In general.' says M. Tsountas, " the
are also gold di.ses iccalling tliose of Mycenae. Finally,
island civilization in its full bloom can hai-dly be distinguished
Mycenean natui'alism can be .seen in a golden eagle.
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