. Excavations at Phylakopi in Melos,. -lakopi. The fragments found elsewhere for the most part showed plainsurfaces of crimson or white ; when there was an indication of pattern itwas a spiral. There is one of which we would glarlly know more (Fig, 65),. J-|,;. )).->.—FkA(;MKNT Ul rAINTHl) : HeA 1> AND BaCK OK A BiKD. (1 : 1.) showing part of a bird painted in bright colours—the head red, the backruddv brown, the wing white—on plaster that is remarkably thin and I have identifled it rightly, it was found in J 3: 21, 2-10 m. below thesurface at the base of the walls of
. Excavations at Phylakopi in Melos,. -lakopi. The fragments found elsewhere for the most part showed plainsurfaces of crimson or white ; when there was an indication of pattern itwas a spiral. There is one of which we would glarlly know more (Fig, 65),. J-|,;. )).->.—FkA(;MKNT Ul rAINTHl) : HeA 1> AND BaCK OK A BiKD. (1 : 1.) showing part of a bird painted in bright colours—the head red, the backruddv brown, the wing white—on plaster that is remarkably thin and I have identifled it rightly, it was found in J 3: 21, 2-10 m. below thesurface at the base of the walls of a Mycenaean house. A considerable quantity of stucco Avas found, in LS()7, below the found-ations of the bastion (a Third-City addition) in B 5, and along the foot of theStrong Wall further east.^ The stratum in which it lay contained a gooddeal of burned wood, and might have been rubbish thrown out during repairsfollowing on a fire. Some of the pieces had the same colouring as thosedescribed in the })receding sections, blue on a creamy-white ground, or plain ^ fite iii. 1-t, and fulle:- particulars in Mr. M:;ckcnzi/.s day-l ook. 78 R. C. BOSAXQUET crimson. Some had a pale yellow ground, and two showed curved stripes,probably part of
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