Ægean archæeology; an introduction to the archæeology of prehistoric Greece . e. It is evidentlyan intruding style fromwithout, as were theAegean styles in Greece. Fig. ^a«/^«^«.;restored. ^^^ jyj^ -g t Poj-gJ^J^gFrom Argos. British Museum, Scale \. J . rJ • haspomtedout itsamni-ties with the pottery of It is, in fact, practicallythe same thing as the Trojan ware, and, with Mr. Fors-dyke, we may regard it as probable that it marks thearrival in Greece of an invading culture-wave from AsiaMinor. To talk of it any longer as if it belonged tothe Mycenaean art-sphere is impossible
Ægean archæeology; an introduction to the archæeology of prehistoric Greece . e. It is evidentlyan intruding style fromwithout, as were theAegean styles in Greece. Fig. ^a«/^«^«.;restored. ^^^ jyj^ -g t Poj-gJ^J^gFrom Argos. British Museum, Scale \. J . rJ • haspomtedout itsamni-ties with the pottery of It is, in fact, practicallythe same thing as the Trojan ware, and, with Mr. Fors-dyke, we may regard it as probable that it marks thearrival in Greece of an invading culture-wave from AsiaMinor. To talk of it any longer as if it belonged tothe Mycenaean art-sphere is impossible. To call it Minyan, as we do, is probably a misnomer, since theMinyae are more likely to have been Minoans thanAnatoHans. In any case, Mr. Forsdykes identificationis important, and very instructive when taken in con-nexion with the legends of the Anatolian origin of thePelopids of Argos. 1 , XXXIV (1914), p. 126/. ( The Pottery called MinyanWare ). Fig. 24 shews a Trojan silver vase from which the shapeof the Minyan kantharos evidently descends (ih., p. 146).. POTTERY 89 Legend, however, lies beyond the bounds of thisbook, and we must abandon the attractive path ofdalHance which these possibiHties open to us for thereahties of ceramic development ! The centre of the Minyan ware was Central predominance was brought to an end there by thecoming of the Cretans with their ceramic art. The beginning of the Late Bronze Age is marked bythe development in Crete of the naturalistic style ofthe First Late Minoan period, which extended itself to
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