. Mycenaean Troy, based on Dörpfeld's excavations in the sixth of the nine buried cities at Hissarlik. Fig. 35. Pottery from VI Stratubi I, II, III are imported Mycenaean ware. IV, Y are Mycenaean formsimitated in Trojan monochrome. YI is a different style of imported pot-tery resembling the island art of the pre-Mycenaean period. YII showsMycenaean flower motive in Trojan technique. YIII, IX are nativeTrojan ware. (95) 96 MYCENAEAN TROY from Mycenae. ??- The linear signs show a strikingsimilarity to those found by Flinders Petrie on thefragments from Kahim and Gurob, in Egypt. ^ Twen-ty out
. Mycenaean Troy, based on Dörpfeld's excavations in the sixth of the nine buried cities at Hissarlik. Fig. 35. Pottery from VI Stratubi I, II, III are imported Mycenaean ware. IV, Y are Mycenaean formsimitated in Trojan monochrome. YI is a different style of imported pot-tery resembling the island art of the pre-Mycenaean period. YII showsMycenaean flower motive in Trojan technique. YIII, IX are nativeTrojan ware. (95) 96 MYCENAEAN TROY from Mycenae. ??- The linear signs show a strikingsimilarity to those found by Flinders Petrie on thefragments from Kahim and Gurob, in Egypt. ^ Twen-ty out of thirty-two are exactly similar; about fifteenresemble the signs of the Cypriote syllabary. Whilethe linear style of writing belongs to ]\Iycenaeantimes, the pictographic signs are of much older ori-gin, and are assigned by Evans to a date as early asthe third millennium before Christ. AYith the intro-duction of the later style of writing the older did notdisappear, but the two systems overlapped each other. In the excavations of Schliemanu in the year 1890there was unearthed in the VI City a
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