great centre for Athenian imports in general, and has yielded many fine specimens of Hellenic pottery (see p. 67). Red-figured vases signed by Chachrylion, Hermaios, etc., have been found here,[864] and at Curium a fine R.F. krater with the name of Megakles (καλός)[865]; also some fine white-ground specimens at Poli.[866] By the fourth century, if not earlier, the Geometrical and Hellenic vases are almost entirely replaced by a new class of wares, which may be termed “Graeco-Cypriote,” in contradistinction to the Graeco-Phoenician. The same red clay, covered with a more or less polished red slip, still obtains, but the painted decoration is confined to olive-wreaths in brown or plain bands of colour. We also witness the revival of an old practice, in a partial return to the taste for plastic decoration on vases. In many of the fourth-century tombs are found large pitchers, with a spout modelled in the form of a woman holding a jug, out of which the liquid was intended to pour (Plate XIII.).[867] These are sometimes richly decorated in polychrome, red, blue, green, black, pink, and white; but the colouring is apt to flake off and disappear. The imported wares of the fourth century are confined to plain cups and bowls of glazed black ware with stamped patterns, such as are often found in Greece and Italy. In the Hellenistic period (300–146 B.C.) painted vases are practically unknown, though a few rare specimens have turned up at Curium[868]; and it is not long before they are entirely replaced by the glass vessels and common wine-amphorae of the large and elaborate Roman tombs. § 2. PRIMITIVE POTTERY IN GREECE BIBLIOGRAPHY TROY: Schliemann, _Ilios_; Dörpfeld, _Troja 1893_, and _Troja und Ilion_ (1902), i. p. 243 ff.; Dumont-Pottier, _Céramiques_, i. p. 3 ff.; Pottier, _Louvre Cat._ i. p. 74 ff. THERA: Fouqué, _Santorin_; Dumont-Pottier, _Céramiques_, i. p. 19 ff.; Perrot, _Hist. de l’Art_, vi. p. 135 ff.; Furtwaengler and Loeschcke, _Myken. Vasen_, p. 18; Pottier, _Louvre Cat._ i. p. 119 ff.; Hiller von Gaertringen, _Thera_, vol. ii. (1903), p. 127 ff.; _Ath. Mitth._ xxviii. (1903), p. 1 ff. MELOS: Excavations of British School at Phylakopi (_J.H.S._ Suppl. Vol. iv. 1904). See also Dümmler in _Ath. Mitth._ xi. (1886), p. 15 ff. The earliest remains of pottery on Hellenic soil are to be sought chiefly in the Cyclades and on the site of ancient Troy. We have already had occasion to allude to the latter in speaking of the earliest Cypriote fabrics, and it is therefore fitting that we should now give it our first attention.