. Excavations at Phylakopi in Melos,. Fji:. 01.— (IK ) : HOOY AND AKMS ((K A SkATKH . (1 : ±) 74 K. C. BOSANQUET The yurvi^•ing• portions of another picture are shown in Figs. 61 and former is a seated man (chest, fore-arms, hands, waist, and knees iDre-served) holding up a piece of drapery (blue with black lines), in his left wears a bracelet on each wrist and a belt at his waist, all painted yellowand probably meant for gold. Below the metal belt is a twisted sash of lightblue, and below that a variegated waist-cloth, blue, red, and yellow, em-b
. Excavations at Phylakopi in Melos,. Fji:. 01.— (IK ) : HOOY AND AKMS ((K A SkATKH . (1 : ±) 74 K. C. BOSANQUET The yurvi^•ing• portions of another picture are shown in Figs. 61 and former is a seated man (chest, fore-arms, hands, waist, and knees iDre-served) holding up a piece of drapery (blue with black lines), in his left wears a bracelet on each wrist and a belt at his waist, all painted yellowand probably meant for gold. Below the metal belt is a twisted sash of lightblue, and below that a variegated waist-cloth, blue, red, and yellow, em-broidered with a design the meaning of which was first made out by theexperienced eye of M. Gillieron—two birds placed back to back with wingsoutspread. Red is used for the little triangles along the feathers, as Avell asfor the spiral lines in the bracelets, and for the finger-nails, Avhich Avere. ( I Fk;. 6-2.—Fka(;.mknts ok Painted Plastkh : Arms and I-^ ok a Himan Figure. (1 :2.) perhaps stained in the Oriental fashion. Of the other figure, apparentlymale, we have the neck, adorned with a necklace tied in a bow behind, theshoulders and the upper arms ; he was stooping forward with arms closetogether as if holding out some offering. There are traces of hair onthe neck. The fragments of the large sea-piece and those with the human figureshave two features in common: both series exhibit a well-preserved red, andboth Avere painted on a plaster ground which had originally been crimson andAvas afterwards covered with a white coating. Possibly they formed a singlepicture. In that case the seated man may be handling a net, and the blue THE AVALL-PAINTINGS. 75 scale-covered object on the rocks may be another net or a basket-trap(Kvprrj) such as is still used in the Aegean. A fragment (Fig. 60 on the left)representing a coil of rope lends some supjDort to the view that the s
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