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 POTTEKV. 379 amphora" {Bugelkannen)^ either with a single (Figs. i66, 191) or a double neck (Fig. 458). The real neck occurs at the side, through which the liquid is introduced into the vase and [X)ured off. Such vases were probably intended to hold perfumes for exportation ; the precious liquid would gurgle to the last drop through the lateral orifice. We may consider as a variety of double- hand led amphorae, vases of globular shape, with cylindrical foot turned separately (Fig. 459). Sometimes the spherical shape of the vase is compressed, and the base flat and circular ; at other times the form is that of a pilgrim's bottle, a form which h'lii. 46[.— Crooked jar. Altica. Hciylil, 13 c, found much favour with the Cypriote potter, and was obviously suggested by a gourd, which it closely resembles. It is found with or without a handle (Fig. 460). In the forms hitherto described, the main axis of the vase is parallel to the vertical, forming a more or less open angle. Such would be the specimen (Fig. 461), where the arching of the handle corresponds to the curving in of the neck and shoulder. Of all the shapes seen in Mycenian pottery, the first place must be given to a jug preserved in the Bor^y collection at Marseilles. ' English archssologisis employ, tiow the German term, now the English pataphmse " false-necked," to this style of ami)horre. We found a stirrup-handled vase in Caria ; but the question may be asked whether the whole of Carian pottery is not of Mycenian manufacture.