Note See n. 2, p. 63 — PART II

[123] The representation, reproduced by the kind permission of the Society for the Promotion of Hellenic Studies, consists of four men carrying in each hand a fish by the tail. The absence of boots and ornaments is in keeping with their occupation. The fishes with one exception have heads like dolphins, similar to the representation of Poseidon with a tiny dolphin in his hand. The painting is executed in the “black and red” style upon the usual white slip. The figures are drawn firmly and boldly according to the conventional scheme, shoulders to front and legs in profile; the slim proportions of the bodies are common to many Mycenæan works. The most barbaric features of the drawing are the absence of hands, and the monstrous eye in the middle of the cheek. Cf. No. 80 in the British Museum Cat. of Gems, which shows a man clad with the characteristic Mycenæan loin cloth carrying a fish by a short line attached to its gullet. Excavations at Phylakopi in Melos (London, 1904), p. 123, pl. xxii.