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A guide to the Department of Greek and Roman Antiquities in the British Museum (1899)

British Museum. Dept. of Greek and Roman Antiquities, Smith, A. H. (Arthur Hamilton), 1860-1941 · London : Printed by order of the Trustees · leaf 160

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eperiod.) The remains of this class of pottery are found througha consideiable area, especially in the eastern parts of the njain-land of Greece, and a considerable number of the southernislands, especially Rhodes, Crete and Cypius. Examples arc foundas far as Egypt and Sicily. The vases of this… … Fig. 41.—Mycenaean Ware. either with a dull brownish colour, or with a lustrous glaze of finequality. The group is marked by characteristic decorations, consistingprincipally of gioups of parallel lines, lattice work arrangements,and systems of spirals and wave patterns. The natural…

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