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… draught box from Enkomi, in order to see what a Levantine artist did with western motifs. It is true there may be a considerable difference of time between the things just compared. [handwritten: 5758] But the essential difference is not so much one of time as of outlook and temperament. The development of the foliate band in Greece in time took a quite different direction, if its fate as a ceramic motif is any criterion.
The seal (or matrix) used to impress Sh 545 will, on the basis of comparative material, have originated some time between about 1600 and 1450 B.C., although it cannot have been used on the Bamboula jug until much later. The parallel with Sh 579 in [handwritten: both of] [handwritten: bronze] dates/[handwritten: manufacture and/use] is striking.
[handwritten: 57] [handwritten: 56]
S3 (Fig.15 Pl. 16 Pl. 9) is a square and stamp [handwritten: 59] with a ridged back, now partially broken off, and with a small round horizontal indentation at about the centre of the ridge. The clay is red-brown at the core to brown outside, well-baked and slightly burnished.
Since the normal material for seals is stone, we have met S3 is made of terracotta. It is scarcely enough for we as an ordinary seal; moreover it is rather longer than ordinary seals. In consequence of the ridge handle in large tends in particular may be worthy of motif. Professor F. Matz has suggested to me the probably that the piece might be a kind of model or sample of two particular designs. Another possible one close to its interpretation is provided by Professor Pendlebury, who has himself. A somewhat similar matrix is still in use in Cyprus village to stamp designs on cakes. By analogy, then, we might think the designation of design on cakes; but such a thing. S3 was stamping ritual motifs, or some such thing.
In any case it is in Cyprus not comparable with that must be sought. If there are any Assyrian connections at all, discernible in this shape, S3 might ...
65 figures hard to readstruck struck outadded written in above” jug ditto, and what it repeatsword reading not certain