Vouni, Korakas and the palaceAlfred Westholm

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… well-worked animal heads, a pair facing north-west of goat, and the pair facing south-east of calf. All the heads were turned in the same direction.

Now the mentioned objects are taken out and the excavation is continued in the direction of the base of the pot. In doing so three silver bowls are cleared, placed inside one another against the eastern wall of the pot and upside down in the pot. The uppermost of the three bowls is rather flat with an everted rim. It was dented by the blow of the pick that struck the middle of the pot . Between this and the next lower one there was only a little earth. The middle bowl is entirely of Greek skyphos character. Its foot ring as well as handles had come loose and fallen down along the sides of the skyphos where they were found. Nested inside the skyphos lay the third silver bowl, hemispherical in the base and with a somewhat inturned rim, on the outside decorated with fine rosette and, at the inturning, egg-and-dart ornament. It was evident beyond doubt that this lowest small bowl had been … continues