. Excavations at Phylakopi in Melos,. he south-eastern part of C 5 at adepth of 320 m. In May, 1897, Mr. Mackenzie noted that the association ofpainted stucco with native Melian ware, of the class with lustreless blackpaint laid on a pale yellow slip, had been observed again and again, butit was not until April, 1898 that any stucco was found which could beproved to belong to the Third or Later Mycenaean City. This findwas made during the excavation of the small rooms forming the eastwing of the Mycenaean palace; fragments of plaster with red and whitesurface, in one or two cases with a pale b
. Excavations at Phylakopi in Melos,. he south-eastern part of C 5 at adepth of 320 m. In May, 1897, Mr. Mackenzie noted that the association ofpainted stucco with native Melian ware, of the class with lustreless blackpaint laid on a pale yellow slip, had been observed again and again, butit was not until April, 1898 that any stucco was found which could beproved to belong to the Third or Later Mycenaean City. This findwas made during the excavation of the small rooms forming the eastwing of the Mycenaean palace; fragments of plaster with red and whitesurface, in one or two cases with a pale blue wash, were found at a depth ofonly 25 m. in J 1: 13, one of three rooms which have a floor of hard, pinkcement.^ § 6.—Tlie Rosette Spiral. Among the most characteristic designs of the native Melian potterybelonging to the later period of the Second City are the running spirals whichoccur in very great variety. Mr, Atkinson has reconstructed an unusuallybeautiful and rich design of this class (Fig. 06) from fragments of painted. -TTOTirTrr Hill!;!; (>(). SriRAL DKsKiN. (Reconstnictetl. 1 : 5). plaster found in 0 8 : 1-i. The band funning the spiral is light blue, thebackground dark grey; in the eye of each volute, and in the triangularspandrels above and below the bands connecting the volutes, are placedeight-petalled rosettes, picked out with red on white. The leaf-like attach- 1 Another of these rooms, J 2 : 1, contained two ordinarj- Mycenaean pseudanipliorae. THE WALL-PAINTINGS. 79 merits, which spring from each volute and help to divide the spandrels,are pale yellow; if prolonged they would supply the framework of a(quadruple spiral like that which forms the basis of the Orchomcnos ceiling-pattern. The frieze is bordered hy a white stripe, outside which there seemsto have been a red panel. Comparison with the spirals reconstructed by Mr. Fyfe from fragments ofplaster found at Cnossos ^ makes it probable that this type of design wasdirectly or indirectly deriv
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