Ægean archæeology; an introduction to the archæeology of prehistoric Greece . —Melos; I,frescofragment with sketch ofswallow. Scale \. 2, frag-ment with sketch of dol-phin. Phylakopi. Scale\.Athens Museum. POTTERY 87 the next period the native Cycladic art has disappeared,all the pottery being either imported Cretan ornative imitations of it. The Cretan influence passed on to the the Peloponnesians were still using their nativeUrfirnis-waie the influence of the Cyclades had come tothem, and the development of a native style of matt-painted vases {Mattmalerei), after
Ægean archæeology; an introduction to the archæeology of prehistoric Greece . —Melos; I,frescofragment with sketch ofswallow. Scale \. 2, frag-ment with sketch of dol-phin. Phylakopi. Scale\.Athens Museum. POTTERY 87 the next period the native Cycladic art has disappeared,all the pottery being either imported Cretan ornative imitations of it. The Cretan influence passed on to the the Peloponnesians were still using their nativeUrfirnis-waie the influence of the Cyclades had come tothem, and the development of a native style of matt-painted vases {Mattmalerei), after the Cycladic man-ner, resulted. This style is seen in its most charac-. FlG. 22.—Phokis ; Minyan goblet: from Lianokladi. Sca/f {. teristic mainland form at Aphidna, Argos, Aigina, andin its Cycladic form at Melos, the original home of itsinspiration. It lasted on long after the first appearanceof the Cretan influence on the mainland in , •and is found in the Mycenaean shaft-graves side by sidewith imported Cretan and ware andlocal imitations of the latter. But it, too, was finallyconquered by the superior Cretan art, which in made itself the Kom) of the Greek world. Andwith it went down also the Minyan ware of CentralGreece, specially of Orchomenos. AEGEAN ARCHAEOLOGY This very distinctive pottery is a fine and homo-geneous bucchero, at its best Hght grey in colour, andpoHshed on the outside. It has no shp or varnish, nopainted decoration, and very rare incisions. Thecommonest shapes are a plain goblet standing on ahorizontally ribbed stem (Fig. 22), and the kantharos-form with high upstanding handles (Fig. 23) whichpers
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