. Excavations at Phylakopi in Melos,. bear to Egyptian typesis more than a coincidence. The small fragment reproduced as Fig. 98 may find aplace here as it is closely akin to XXIII. 2. The circularobjects are evidently flowers, and the scheme of the designis the same as on XXIII. 2 and 5. It may be regarded asan attempt to show the flower in full face or as seen fromabove, and this view is all the more probable as we find avery similar design on the Egyptian Before proceeding to the next main class I may mention certain vasesand fragments which, like some of the above group, stand
. Excavations at Phylakopi in Melos,. bear to Egyptian typesis more than a coincidence. The small fragment reproduced as Fig. 98 may find aplace here as it is closely akin to XXIII. 2. The circularobjects are evidently flowers, and the scheme of the designis the same as on XXIII. 2 and 5. It may be regarded asan attempt to show the flower in full face or as seen fromabove, and this view is all the more probable as we find avery similar design on the Egyptian Before proceeding to the next main class I may mention certain vasesand fragments which, like some of the above group, stand midway betweenthe black and red and the red and black techniques. The vase figured on XXIV. 1 has four handles (two attached horizontallyand two small vertical ones), a high hollow foot and a sieve-bottom.^Several other fragments could be identified as belonging to the same typeof vessel. The cross-hatched band round the foot of XXIV. 1 is a pattern -whicheven in the later style is usually executed in matt black. The pattern . -—c^.
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