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(3) Beside Dombrena near Thebes in Central Greece : the 

 site has not been described, but neolithic implements are 

 very frequent : among them is a potter's burnisher of white 

 quartzite (Finlay Coll., 280. Athens). (4) On the Acro- 

 polis of Athens many implements and vases were entirely 

 confused by the levelling of the summit in the fifth century 

 B.C. ; on the south side (in the space afterwards known as 

 the UtXapyiKov) is a layer of neolithic pottery with obsidian 

 flakes and a potter's burnisher, almost wholly destroyed 

 by the recent excavations, and only preserved where it is 

 left to support the fragmentary walls of the Mykenaean 

 settlement. The material of the pottery is Ilissos mud, 

 not the Kerameikos clay of the Kephissos valley. (5) 

 Beyond the Ilissos, between Hymettos and the sea, the 

 exact site is unknown, potsherds are common on the surface. 

 The many stone heaps in this district seem to have been 

 accumulated from off the fields on to barren spots ; two, 

 opened south-east of Kara in 1895, were quite barren; a 

 tumulus north-east of Kara, surreptitiously opened, con- 

 tained a Mykenaean interment (Ashm. Mus.). (6) Primitive 

 pottery is common on the west end of the cliff which runs 

 along the coast from New Corinth nearly to the site of 

 Lechaion. 



18. The "Second City" of Hissarlik has marked points of 

 similarity with the first, but represents a decided advance, 

 and has notable characteristics of its own. The walls, great 

 and small, are of better masonry below, and of sun-dried 

 brick above, with bonding courses and terminal uprights 

 (antae) of timber ; the centre of the fortress is occupied by a 

 " chief's house," consisting of three oblong buildings with 

 portico entrances at one end in a courtyard entered by a 

 covered gateway. The pottery is still of unlevigated clay, 

 and mostly hand-made ; it is no longer blackened as before, 

 but either left as it is, or covered with a red slip, which con- 

 tinues to occur in the layers above ; new and characteristic 

 forms appear, some peculiar, others again common to 

 Central Europe, to the Greek islands or to Cyprus. 

 Stone implements are still in common use, but copper and 

 bronze begin to be frequent though they are still of simple 



