. Excavations at Phylakopi in Melos,. Fig. 1S9.—Clay Spit-rest.(1 :4.). Fig. 190.—Earthexware Table. (1 : 4.) impressed lines radiate from the central boss to the circumference. Thefull width is -37. A second specimen, 34 in diameter and Ooo in thickness, has traces of acentral boss about *12 in diameter, and an incised line round the are several similar fragments with incised patterns. A similar .discfrom Mvcenae is in the Museum at Athens (3257). It has a regularly formedcup in place of the vertical socket seen in Fig. 190. Inside the cup areincised rays; and rays appear on the ce


. Excavations at Phylakopi in Melos,. Fig. 1S9.—Clay Spit-rest.(1 :4.). Fig. 190.—Earthexware Table. (1 : 4.) impressed lines radiate from the central boss to the circumference. Thefull width is -37. A second specimen, 34 in diameter and Ooo in thickness, has traces of acentral boss about *12 in diameter, and an incised line round the are several similar fragments with incised patterns. A similar .discfrom Mvcenae is in the Museum at Athens (3257). It has a regularly formedcup in place of the vertical socket seen in Fig. 190. Inside the cup areincised rays; and rays appear on the central boss of one of the Phylakopifragments. Other examples occurred at Cnossos and at Gournia in Crete. There are fragments of another and much larger table of coarser clav ; itseems to have been about 90 in diameter, and to have stood on three or fourplain legs about 30 high which tapered to a point below. Several coarse shovels or scoops of a familiar Mycenaean type, all , painted with broad red stripes over yellow w^ash in the style of the vaseFig.


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