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The Excavations at Phylakopi in Melos, 1911: § 4.—Melos and Crete
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 18 October 2013
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The trade connexion between Melos and Crete, which is proved as early as the Neolithic period by the presence of Melian obsidian in Crete, is not indicated by the presence of Cretan vases at Phylakopi before the beginning of the Middle Minoan age. The suggestion that the lustrous glaze Geometric ware was imported and not native, has not been supported by later evidence, and of the Cretan pottery with light-on-dark geometric patterns of the Early Minoan III period, which was first observed at Vasiliki near Gournià, only one sherd was found, and even this is not entirely certain. The finds of polychrome Kamares ware on the other hand though small in comparison with the mass of local pottery, were frequent and well distributed over the site. About seventy per cent, of the total amount found came from levels in which pottery of the native Geometric style predominated; of the rest, the greater part was found with the pre-Mycenaean Melian ware, as we prefer to call the Early Mycenaean with curvilinear designs in matt black of Mr. Edgar's classification, whilst a certain amount was found amongst later fabrics in strata which had probably been disturbed.
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page 9 note 1 Recorded, in Phylakopi, p. 15Google Scholar, where MrHogarth, quotes DrStais, (Ἐθ. Ἀρχ. 1895, pp. 227 ff.)Google Scholar for a similar practice in some pre-Mycenaean houses in Aegina, and mentions his own discovery of such a burial in a house, probably of the Kamares period, at Knossos, (B.S.A. vi. p. 77).Google Scholar
page 9 note 2 Suggrundarium: the grave of a child less than forty days old, which was a niche in a wall, covered by a projecting roof or eaves. Lewis and Short, Latin Dictionary. A quotation from Fulgentius, , Expositio Sermonum antiquorum, p. 550Google Scholar, follows.
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page 10 note 1 Some of these pre-Mycenaean vases are shown on Pl. XIII.
page 10 note 2 Phylakopi, p. 260.
page 10 note 3 Such borrowed patterns are shewn in Phylakopi, Pl. XVIII, 1, 12 and 21; for metallic forms see ibid. p. 113, Figs. 85–87.
page 11 note For a few examples see Seager, Mochlos, Pl. XI; from Zakro, , J.H.S. xxii, Pl. XIIGoogle Scholar, 2 and 3; Boyd-Hawes, , Gournià, Pls. VII–IX, F, I–K.Google Scholar
page 13 note 1 See the Plates in Mrs. Boyd-Hawes' Gournià.
page 15 note 1 Phylakopi, Pl. XXXI.
page 15 note 2 Phylakopi, p. 136, Fig. 109 and p. 146, Fig. 123.
page 15 note 3 B.S.A. xi. p. 280, Fig. 11.