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

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64 PREHISTORIC REMAINS AND THEIR DISTRIBUTION.
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Waltcis, i:.rr,iru/iinis in Siikkarah iiiiiy }iave been placed witli a fresli iiiteniii'iit in an old tomb.
The results of the excavations at Curium and Enkomi have
Fhoenikias^ Alambra, Zarukas, Katidata, Linu and
now been published, but too late to be fully used here'.
Karpaso, have all yielded Mycenean pottery*.
Kalopsida. On the denuded surface of the Bronze Age
The Myceuean vases found in Cyprus belong to the last
necropolis at this place Mr Mjres found " one or two fragments
period of that pottery when quadrupeds and human figures are
of characteristic Mycenean pottery, though not in any undisturbed
included in the decorative motives.
tombs."
In the remains of the settlement near were discovered handmade
pottery of a red or brown cc^lour and for the most part
Lycia.
very rude, and two massive but well-worked saucers of Telmessus. There is in the British Museum a falsenecked
crystalline
rock both still stained with a rod pigment like that on the
vase procured at Telmessus by Prof W. M. Ramsay ^
pottery from the tombs.
In one tomb on this site Myres found " a small crater-like
Egypt.
vessel which had formed part of a ring-vase
: such ring-vases
are not common, but seem to be confined, in the Bronze Age,
Kahun. A tomb at Kahun, near the mouth of the Fayuni
to the earliest tombs: and conse({uently their correspondence
(which, says Prof Petrie^ "belongs to about 1,100 B.C., or
with similar forms among the Libyan red ware fi-om Ballas and
within fifty years of that either way "),
contained some dozens
Naqada is the more noteworthy, as it is not improbable that the
of bodies, and a great quantity of pottery, Egyptian, Phoenician,
very similar fabrics of Libya and Cyprus are closely related."
Cj'priote, and Aegean. The principal vase of the Mycenean or
Black ware adorned with punctures has also been found in
Aegean class " is of a fine light brown paste with red ironglazed
pattern." The form and the design are evidently from
Cyprus (Kalopsida) and has been comjjared by Mr Myres to
similar black fabi'ics with white-tilled punctured oi-naments
the same factory as the two octopus vases, which also are
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which have been found, as native manufactui'es, in known to have
Libyan
come from Egypt, one in the Abbott collection
graves at Ballas and Xa(|a(la, and in uppei- Egy})t, and at
at New York, the other found at Erment, and now in the
Ciempo/.uelos in S])ain, at B>eth Saour in south l^destine, at
British Museum.
Kahun and elsewhere in
There are other Egy])t."
stray IVIycenean vases in European museums.
Two are at Berlin, one of which was taken out of an
Agia Paraskevi. Though
in the tombs excavated in this
Egyptian
tomb
celebrated Bi-onze Age necro})olis in of the Old
l.S!)4, Mr J. 1^. Monarchy at Sakkarah *. There are several
Myies
found no Mycenean vases, " fi'agmeiits of many are
others in the Louvre, as well as two
stri-wn over
Leyden.
the [)hitcau."
Tel-el-Amarna. False-necked vases have been found
Laksha Tu Riu. Mere, in a tomb, Mycenean \ases were
here, ' perfectly formed says Petrie, " of the true
f'liund ai wide
ware), but nn red ware was fnund. Thi' white slip ware
shallow
is tdUtid
type, and ai-e elegantly shaped." He also found st'vei'al
at Hi>sai-lik, Athens, in Thei-a, l\g\l>t
and south I'alestine,
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Fuitwiingler a)i(l Ijopsclie, oj). n't., i)p. 21 20.
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but in this tomb nnl\- the cdinnion heniisphei'ical l)u\vls were
lhi. eit., p. HI. It is held that tlie vase from