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 372 Primitive Greece: Mvcenian Art. thickly stacked. Nothing could well be more simple than a cup from Amorgos (Fig. 453) ; advance is shown in the next piece from the same place (Fig. 454). It is a stone spoon furnished with a ring, also of stone, into which was inserted a wood or bone handle. In order to preserve the spoon, which has got notched around the edge, a narrow band of silver has been put around it. If the employment of marble was no inconsiderable factor in retarding the development of the ceramic art among these Fig. 451. — Stone box. Munich Museum. Lengih, 11 c. isles, in the end it none the less improved its methods. Thus the necropolis at Amorgos shows a decided progress on that of Antiparos.' The pottery is still very coarse, and its sole orna- ment is composed of incised lines ; but by its side painted vases make their appearance. Most of the single pieces, it must be owned, are most simple and of no great variety of form, and not a few have tubular holes instead of handles. When these occur, they are narrow and clumsy, and not frankly detached from the body. Despite traces of inexperience, which I have pointed ' DCmmler, Athenische MUl/uilungen.