[979]. See Chapter XVII.

[980]. Ashmolean Vases, No. 189.

[981]. In the Vatican (Helbig, i. p. 435, No. 641). Reinach, i. 179 = Wiener Vorl. 1888, 1, 8.

[982]. For the interpretation of the inscription see J.H.S. x. p. 187 (Ramsay); Arch.-epigr. Mitth. aus Oesterr.-Ungarn, 1888, p. 85 (Dümmler); Class. Review, 1900, p. 264 (Richards). The last explanation (Aristonoös) seems the most natural. See Chapter XVII.

[983]. Schliemann, Mycenae, p. 133: cf. Pottier in Revue Arch. xxviii. (1896), p. 19. The technique of the vase is not strictly Mycenaean, as the use of yellow colour for details implies.

[984]. Berl. Phil. Woch. 1895, p. 201.

[985]. See Jahrbuch, 1887, p. 58.

[986]. That they are an immediate development of the Dipylon style is indicated by various features of the later Attic Geometrical vases (Jahrbuch, 1886, pp. 98, 120).

[987]. Jahrbuch, 1887, p. 48, fig. 8 = Plate XVII. No. 5.

[988]. Jahrbuch, 1887, p. 46.