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Evans to influence from the Cyclades, which at this time also gave to Crete the idea of the flat, banjo-shaped human figurines which are characteristic of the early deposits of Melos and Amorgos.
It was found in the year 1820 in the Island of Melos by a peasant, who sold it to the French consul at the place. The statue was standing in the theatre, which had been filled up with rubbish in the course of centuries, and when discovered was broken in several places, and some of the pieces were gone.
Round or bean-shaped, pierced for suspension, usually soft stone, e.g. slate or steatite. Sometimes hard, as hematite or rock crystal. Two animals ranged like heraldic supporters characteristic. Obsidian. Natural glass, volcanic, black. Source Melos. Used for knives throughout Bronze Age.
It is seen on vases of elegant form from Athens and Melos; on others from Ceres, Chiusi, and Cumae, as well as on the clumsy pottery recently discovered at Konigswald on the Oder and on the borders of Hungary; on bronze objects from the Caucasus, and the celebrated Albano urn; on a medal from Gaza in Palestine and on an Iberian medal from Asido.
Through Habeneck he learnt to understand the Ninth Symphony even better than he had understood it before; for the Conservatoire orchestra had rehearsed it until, almost unconsciously, they discovered the real melody, or what Wagner calls the melos.
The same is the case with Melian white, because there is said to be a mine of it in Melos, one of the islands of the Cyclades. Green chalk is found in numerous places, but the best at Smyrna. Sandarach, in many places, but the best is mined in Pontus close by the river Hypanis. I shall now proceed to explain the nature of cinnabar.
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