| Scope and Content |
Card base with six illustrations of pottery attached with pasted labels a-f. Images a and c are pasted partly over the plain background of image b. The number 90 is pasted in the lower left corner. Each object has a later annotation in biro giving bibliographic references. The original description in the catalogue reads: "Middle Minoan Pottery: a and c. The inside (a) and outside (c) of a bowl, to be classed with the dove cup (89 l). It is, however, much more elaborate. Inside the bowl is a whole flock of sheep, or perhaps oxen, followed by the shepherd. There are now 160 animals; originally there were perhaps a few more. The pattern on the outside of the bowl, with its appearance of weaving, is perhaps intended to represent the fence of the sheepfold, made, as now in Crete, by weaving bundles of brushwood into a fixed framework of hurdles. b. Polychrome vase of the kind generally called a "fruit-stand" : M.M. I. d. Eggshell-ware cup; black ground with a pattern of white lines and dots: M.M. IIa. f. Polychrome cup: M.M. II. e. Bucket-shaped vase; the finest of the few M.M. III finds at Palaikastro. The ground is deep red, and the pattern, of flowers and bulls' heads, is carried out in white paint. The walls of the vase are pierced with holes and round these holes the flowers cluster in a way that suggests that the prototype of these vases was some sort of ritual pot or flower basket with flowers showing through holes in the sides as well as at the opening." |
