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these potters alongside of the highest masters of the art. The sharp 

 high elbow and the broadening of the handles at their junction with 

 the lip are notable features. The latter is sliowii more satisfactorily 

 in Fig. 83. which is a toji view of a companion ])iece. I wish to call 



attention here to a peculiar feature of these handles and one repeated 

 in vessels of other classes. At the elbow of each liandle wc find a 

 device in relief marked with herring bone indentations that would 

 seem to represent a kind of textile attachment, as if, at some previous 

 time and perhaps in an antecedent form of vessel, the upright and 

 horizontal ])arts of the handles had been stitched or tied together at 

 this point. Yet it is l)y no means certain that this feature is not the 

 survival of some feature of an animal form into the semblance of 



