§ 93- Fresh Lights on Polychrome Pottery of the Great Age :
'Barbotine' Ware and the Influences of Sea-shells.

Break in stratification at end of M. M. la.; Series of later deposits
representing M.M. lb; Fresh evidence from ' West Polychrome Deposit';
Fabric of finest' egg-shell' ware perfected by M. M. In; Metal prototypes of
'tumblers1; M.M. lb Polychrome example; Later evolution of' 'tumbler'
type; Colour changes in M. M. I b / Textile character of plant decoration ;
Rise'of 'Barbotine' technique; M.M. la. examples of 'Barnacle work';
Illustrated by naturalistic examples of M. M. Ill; Minoan fondness for
grotesque natural designs; Secondary ' Barbotine' phase characteristic of
M.M. lb; Its marine sources—the 'Thorny Oyster' and 'Thorn-back
Crab ' ; This ' Prickle work' used in designs of shells ; Fine combination of
'Barbotine' technique with early Polychromy on M. M. lb jug; Exquisite
development of' Prickle work 'on M.M. II a bowls ; Lower date of' Barbotine'
decoration—absent at Kahun; Late example at Harageh c. ipoo B.C.
Sporadic survivals; M. M. I a Cockle-shell relief and later parallels;
'Nature-moulding' as well as 'Nature-printing'; Influence of Sea-shells
on evolution of ornament; Whorl-shells in relation to spiraliform motives;
Dolium or ' Tun-shell' in Minoan Art; Couch-shell or Triton; Parallel
decorative evolution of whorl-shells in New Mexico ; Curious compound shell-
type—perhaps derived from ' Tun-shell'; Development of ' Marine style'
begins in M. M. Is.—Cockle-shell reliefs; Later example on melal vase;
Repousse' reliefs of compound bivalves on polychrome vessels; Specimens
identical with Kuossian from Phaestos and Palaikastro ; Distributed from
Royal Kuossian factory ; Similar reliefs on ' Creamy border ' ware from
Knossos; This class first distinguished here ; ' Fruit-stand' type ; ' Tortoise-
shell ripple' motive imitated from flutings of metal-ivork ; Cups with this motive
copied from gold goblets like those of Mycenae; Pet ailed vase and flower—
floral attachment imitated from jewellery ; Parallel 'flower cones' from early
Chaldaean sites; Beaked ewer in ' Creamy-bordered' Style ; Polychrome vases
with similar neck-ring; Metal-work origin of this class of ewer ; ' Creamy-
bordered' class based on silver work; Argonaut reliefs from ' Kouloura 2
earliest examples of a persistent Minoan type ; M. M. 11'a polychrome vases
' Prickle work ' imitated in profile ; Thorn-bossed bcrwls and ' Barbotine
prototype; M. M. II b polychromy—Palmette decoration and vessel parallel
to the ' Abydos' pot.