By Sara A. Immerwahr
(American tuition of Classical experiences 1971)
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P 13985. Well, S 27 :3. Max. dim. 12 m. Large fragment from near base of bowl. Gritty brown clay, gray at core; red burnished slip inside and out, with radiating panels of parallel diagonal lines, probably once painted in matt white. Of the pattern only the wearing away of the surface where the paint has flaked off remains. Fragments of similar bowls with decoration of oblique lines: P 14588 from U 24:3 and P 13881 from S 27:4. Late Neolithic. 28. Rim Fragment of Open Bowl, Lug Handle. Pls. 3, 68.
67 Although dating to a late stage of the Middle Neolithic, they continued in a brownish ware with curvilinear incisions into the Late Neolithic period, and these later examples are thus not far removed in time from our scoops. The location of the Kephala examples in tombs suggests a religious significance (and in this connection one should not forget that skeletal material in our tvells might likewise connote disturbed burials). In brief, a ritual rather than a practical function seems most likely for the scoops.
19 a, 1, 5, 7, 8 (surface h d s but with other Neolithic material); Prosymna, 11, fig. 626 (pyres on East Yerogalaro Ridge); Kephala, Keos in Hesperia, XXXIII, 1964, pls. 46, i, 47, e. * The fullest discussion of this shape is in Asea, pp. 55-56, figs. 57-58 (reconstruction as an oven). Characteristic among our sherds are the flat bases with straw or grass impressions, perhaps the result of chaff tempering (180-182) (cf. a similar fragment from the Hut on the South Slope, Levi, Abitazioni, p. 435, fig.