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re-construction, however, with the foot, is now published with Part II. 
The jar was furnished with three handles. This is proved by No. 7 which 
shows the fractured bases of the three handles, equidistant from one 
another. The fact is also clearly indicated in Dr. Sven Hedin’s figures. 
In the case of the smaller jar, the neck and handles are missing, but the 
three heads, on the shoulder of the jar, from which the three handles 
sprang, are still there. His larger jar possesses the neck and one of the 
handles, but from the arrangement of the decorations of the neck, it is 
probable that originally it possessed three handles. The possession of 
three handles seems to me to be a point specially worth noting. Three- 
handled jars or vases are not at all uncommon in very early Greek art. 
I have seen numerous specimens ( e.g ., in the British Museum, the 
Ashmolean Museum in Oxford, and the Akademische Kunst Museum in 
Bonn) from the Mycenian age and area, also from Cyprus. Some may be 
seen figured in the MyJcenische Tongefasse of Furtwangler and Loschke, 
Plates III, 10, VII, 42; also in their MyJcenische Vasen , Plates I, 1.3, 
III, 19.20 IV, 26, etc. On the other hand, they are entirely absent from 
the Classical Greek age and area, 1 and only reappear at a comparatively 
late date. The only three-handled vessels that I remember having seen 
are certain Roman vases of the 2nd century A.D., in the Provincial 
Museum in Bonn. N^. V. 
1 I am referring here to true three-handled vessels, all the handles of which are 
alike in form and position. False three-handled vessels do occur in classical Greek 
