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A. Murray
EXC. Pl. II: 872ab as demonstrated by the handles of the bronze vases from Enkomi. But a comparison between our handle and why the Enkomi handles shows the metamorphosis which the delicate Minoan-Mycenaean pattern underwent: There is no passage The plasticity, the sharp definition, the clean outlining of each leaf is lost in a flat, massive stateliness.
Equally the same thing may be said of the tree pattern which is so characteristic of the our seal impression on Sh 589. One has only to compare it with the or yet another example Schaeffer, Stratigraphie Pl. CXIII top. (drawing) the nesting birds on the ivory draught box from Enkomi to see what an early Eastern artist does with western motifs
EXC Pl. I
see H. Kantor AJA 51(1947) 98 for a recent discussion of these ivories. She quite rightly distances herself from the view that these ivories are the product of Mycenaean craftsmen.
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390 Grave III … continues
65 figures hard to readstruck struck outadded written in above” jug ditto, and what it repeatsword reading not certain