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reference to their models, are transformed automatically 

 into the latticed triangles and maeanders, which are the 

 commonplaces of rectilinear design. 



44. At this point the survey must close, for now, on 

 geometrically engraved tripods, and geometrically painted 

 vases, appear Hellenic inscriptions in alphabetic characters. 

 Borrowed Oriental, and especially Assyrianising, motives 

 intrude themselves into the panels of the rectilinear orna- 

 ment, and attempts are made, however ineffectual, to 

 represent first animal and then human forms. Now, in the 

 development upward out of the " Dark Age," Hellenic 

 history begins to reckon onward from the Trojan Era and 

 from Olympic and kindred lists ; and Hellenic art no longer 

 forward from the eighteenth, but backward from the twenty- 

 sixth Dynasty. 



LEVANTINE ETHNOLOGY, AND SUMMARY (to follow). 



BIBLIOGRAPHY. 



N.B. The references which follow are grouped under 

 the numbers of the paragraphs of the text. They only 

 indicate the primary researches and theories, and must be 

 compared with the fairly full references in Perrot and 

 Chipiez, Histoire de I Art. VI, La Grece Prehistorique, 

 1895, an d with the current notices of discoveries scattered 

 throughout M. Salomon Reinach's invaluable " Chroniques 

 d'Orient " published in the Revtie ArchcEologique, of which 

 the years 1883- 1890 have been republished separately 

 (Paris, Firmin Didot, 1891). 



6. Dr. Schliemann's Researches. 



Schliemann. Ilios. (German and Englished.), 1881, (French 

 ed., including " Troja"), 1885, (German and English), 1884. 

 Atlas Troj. A Iterthumer (photographs), 1874. 

 Mycence ,, ,, 1878. 



Ithaka, etc., ,, ,, 1879. 



OrcJwmenos ,, ,, 1881. 



Tiryns ,, ,, 1886. 



SCHUCHHARDT. ScJiliemanii s Excavations (German, Leipzig, 

 1890); E. T. Macmillan, 1891. 



