An introduction to the study of prehistoric art . Fig. 237.—Sword handles with spiral ornament, (i) Hungary. (2) Bavaria. (3) Schleswig-Holstein. the form of houses, one from Amorgos and another fromMelos (Fig. 238), are seen uninterrupted spiral designs covering the whole de-corated surface. Alsoon stone ornaments,and on a terracottacover from Sikinos.^Curiously enough how-ever pre-Mycenseanpottery from theIslands does not ap-pear to show spiralornament. It is recti-linear, the most striking design consisting of vertical linesarranged in a system, occasionally joined at the top by a iChr. JJl
An introduction to the study of prehistoric art . Fig. 237.—Sword handles with spiral ornament, (i) Hungary. (2) Bavaria. (3) Schleswig-Holstein. the form of houses, one from Amorgos and another fromMelos (Fig. 238), are seen uninterrupted spiral designs covering the whole de-corated surface. Alsoon stone ornaments,and on a terracottacover from Sikinos.^Curiously enough how-ever pre-Mycenseanpottery from theIslands does not ap-pear to show spiralornament. It is recti-linear, the most striking design consisting of vertical linesarranged in a system, occasionally joined at the top by a iChr. JJlinkenberg, Antiq. rre-Myccn., Mem. Roy. Soc. du Nord(1896), p. Fig. 238.—Pyxis from Melos. CHARACTER OF BRONZE AGE DECORATION 205 horizontal line. The painted pottery with spiral ornamentfrom Melos and Thera is of later date, and if not Mycenrean,is closely allied to it.^ Later, in the Mycencean Age, thespiral becomes a most characteristic feature in the orna-mentation of the pottery of this region. In Britain working in Bronze to form personal orna-ments as torques, bracelets, beads, etc., was much lessdeveloped than in Scandinavia and Eastern Europe. Thefibula was not made in Britain, France, or WesternGermany. The few specimens found were importationsfrom Northern Italy, where the brooch not improbablyoriginated.^ The pottery from the round Barrows of Britain showsno sign of spiral ornament. The same may be said of thatfrom France and Spain,^ and there is little more evidenceof it in Scandinavia and Central Europe. It is very dif-ferent when we pass to the Eastern Mediterranean, forthere is nothing more characteristic of Mycenaean potterytha
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