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[sketchinspiration in the form of spindle whorls, and possibly other artefacts, must have been abundant and T38/Bamboula is an example of this w.p. in re-used Bronze Age graves for the designs; and the very practice of making rolled im- [margin left: I do not propose without pics of a Bronze conical age [illegible]pown/ointment vsp. as this would not have rolled well, too] pressions on pithoi is attested at Bamboula, if not elsewhere in Cyprus, in the Bronze age as well. [illegible] Fragments of such pithoi or even whole pithoi may well have been seen by Late and would have produced very small circles. Geometric or Early Archaic potters who adapted the custom to their own taste. It must not cf. Lindos I Pl. 14: 402 (in base) for type of rounded matrix which could have been used ~[illegible]~. There is insufficient for the dating of these artefacts. Some may actually be Br. age. cf Lindos I 434 It is true, of course, that concentric circles were common on Cypriote pots since Cypro-Geometric III
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these seldom have an outer pattern frieze character or are combined with rectilinear elements.] be forgotten that two of the impressed frags; discussed in this paper were in fact finds, or prepared in larger format. Total ht. of 402 = 1.7 cm. Th. of design ca. 7 cm. } check with Sh 615 design ht.
65 figures hard to readstruck struck outadded written in above” jug ditto, and what it repeatsword reading not certain