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 374 Fkimit[ve Gkekce : Mvcenian Art. sepultures. They represent the highest effort of the fabric whose productions make up our second class. Vases of this style are worthily represented by a tinted specimen from the sixth grave, which we reproduce (Fl. XX. 3).^ The piece was broken into so many bits as to make a restoration impossible. On the light red ground, which is carefully polished, the brush has outlined a griffin in brown. White was used to paint the body and the eye. The wing, which was attached to the back of the neck, is almost entirely obliterated. The vase was spherical in shape, and must have closely resembled the annexed Vlii. 455.— Mjtena-. Vase from Tomb I. OnB-founli. example, which we engrave as standing at the tail end of this ceramic art (Fig. 455). The spout is very short, and the attach- ment of the handle to the body clumsy in the extreme. Broad bands surround the body ; the spirals seen on the shoulder, like those we have met on stone vases, are imitated from metal- work (Fig. 452). About the neck are protuberances which bring to mind the similar appendages of the Trojan and island pottery. Dull-coloured fragments of terra-cotta have only been found, either in the Mycenae shaft-graves, or the lowest beds of rubbish of the town itself, or the acropoles of Tiryns, Daulis, Orchomenos, • Our plate is a reduction of PI. VIII. of Mykenische Thongefiissi. For reasons of size we were obliged to restrict our choice to such of the fragments that have been pieced together to represent the griDin.