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 358 Primitive Grkece: Mvcenian Art. with the needful solidity and size for the hand to get through. They soon found out the inconvenience of carrying a vessel supported from the bottom, and they had recourse to the following expedient. Additional thickness was given to the wall of the jar on three or four points below the lip, where horizontal or vertical holes were pierced, so as to admit of its being slung on a small cord and thus carried on the shoulder or the head, or hung on a KlG. 438. —Amphora. Actual si/e. hook (Fig, 436). The few specimens found whole are very like our common pots and pans {Fig. 66). Nevertheless, Schliemann publishes, as belonging to this bed, some jars which are provided with handles separately made.' The second layer introduces us to a much greater variety of shapes. Some of the most common types are printed below. First comes a small jar without a spout for pouring off the liquid, whose thick walls and moulded lip rendered it unsuitable for a ' Schliemann, //ios.