INDUSTRIAL ARTS. 325 handle at the side and spout in front, recalling the aspect of a lamp, is somewhat more complicated (Fig. 234). Medium-size or small vases were hand-painted ; whilst the large jars and the slabs, out of which sarcophagi were made, had the ornament stamped in, impressed on the wheel whilst the clay was wet and soft. Spirals (Fig. 235) that remind one of the stelas at Mycenae, chevrons, and a rudely chalked- in ovolo device are the due accompani- ment of pithoi (Fig. 236). As to the slabs of terra-cotta that formed the walls of the sarcophagi, besides the usual meander, we find rosette devices very similar to those seen on Mycenian pieces of jewellery (Fig. 237). Of these, the simplest is a star composed of eight rays or bars (Fig. 238). Elsewhere it has FIG. 235. Fragment of pit . . I . . After Paton, p. 71. but six points, but the intervening space is filled in with the tooth device (Fig. 239). A decided step in advance is observable in the ornament of the two remaining FJG. 236. Fragment of pithos Ibid., p. 79. FIG. 237. Slab from sarcophagus. One-fourth of its actual size. Jbid., p. 75. slabs. In the one two zones of chevrons, frankly separated by concentric rings, surround the central star (Fig. 240). No star appears in the other, the space being wholly taken up by the willow pattern, which is made to radiate around a central ring, and is intersected by five presiding lines, dividing the circle into six
