. M. Houssay further points out the existence on some of the Mykenaean pottery of drawings (see " L'Ossuaire de Crete," by MM. Perrot and Chipiez) of leaves attached to tree-like stems. These leaves (Fig. 1 8, a, b, c) exhibit fig. 17.—Two drai the same markings (" venation ") which ings on pottery of we see on the bodies of the geese in Fig. 16, especially the middle one of the five. The leaves (or fruits ?) copied by M. Houssay from the Mykenaean pottery are attached in a series to a stem — but no one, at present, has suggested what plant it is which is represented. The c
. M. Houssay further points out the existence on some of the Mykenaean pottery of drawings (see " L'Ossuaire de Crete," by MM. Perrot and Chipiez) of leaves attached to tree-like stems. These leaves (Fig. 1 8, a, b, c) exhibit fig. 17.—Two drai the same markings (" venation ") which ings on pottery of we see on the bodies of the geese in Fig. 16, especially the middle one of the five. The leaves (or fruits ?) copied by M. Houssay from the Mykenaean pottery are attached in a series to a stem — but no one, at present, has suggested what plant it is which is represented. The corners of the leaf or fruit to the right and left of its stalk are thrown into a spiral—and the half leaf or half fruit represented in Fig. iS, b, leads us on to that drawn in Fig. 18, c, in which the spiral corner is slightly modified in curvature so as to resemble the head and neck of the goose as drawn in Fig. 16. Though Fig. 18, c, is as yet devoid of legs or wing feathers (compare Fig. 16, d), the black modified geese, from Perrot's " Ossuaire de ; The three lines above the back of the upper figure probably represent the legs or cirri of the barnacle, which are represented by two jointed append- ages in the geese shown in Fig. 16.
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