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M.M. Ill: NORTH-WEST BAILEY AND LUSTRAL AREA 415
The bowl, Fig. 298, b, and fragments of others of the same type was found, Other
together with Fig. 299 a, amidst a heap of sherds outside a house to the W. of porary"
the Palace at Knossos, excavated in 1900.1 Among the vessels found, the !£Pes °*
& Dotted
small high spouted jug, Fig. 299«,is of great interest as presenting on both sides Ware'.
a triple spray of ears of barley moulded in high relief. Fig. 299 b shows the
barley spray itself. It was accompanied by raised decoration of a kind recalling Moulded
some of the old ' barbotine ' work. Though the vessel is small we ma)' perhaps Bailey on
infer that the liquor for which the vases were intended was not unconnected Small
. ' Tuff.
with 'John Barleycorn '. The ideographs coupling cereals with certain forms
ofvessels seen on tablets of the Linear Class indicate that in Late.Minoan times,
at all events, some kind of beer was brewed in Crete. Its usage seems to have
preceded that of wine in the island. A portion of an identical vessel was
found in the lower stratum of the blind well of the Court of the Stone Spout
in a deposit belonging to the earlier M. M. Ill phase.
In the same heap West of the Palace with the above occurred the two Pede-
remarkable high-footed vases, Fig. 300, a, I), upon the upper part of the bodies vLe-fof
of which are seen similar white dots on the black ground. The triple handles ^v^itel'
of these are themselves an archaic feature inherited from a large M. M. I Ware,
family of the ' barbotine ' class.2 The cable border on a recurs on a re-
markable 'ostrich egg' rhyton of contemporary fabric :; as a polychrome
feature; it represents a decorative tradition of the Third Early Minoan
Age. On some associated remains of similar vases the raised ring at the base
of the neck was painted red. In these cases both handles and neck are
painted a creamy white, like the rim of the vase, Fig. 298, c, above.
Both this creamy white wash and the pedestalled character of these vessels Poly-
bring them into a very close relation with a typical class of M. M. Ill vessels
with two upright handles, of which a specimen 4 is given in Fig. 301. Like tion of
. . . Egyptian
the above, this vessel also shows clear traces of a surviving polychrome Afabas-
tradition, the body being covered with a maroon slip, while round the neck tron type'
are zigzagging red lines. But the shape of the vase is of special interest
in the present connexion from the evidence that it supplies of the presence
1 Hogarth, op. cit., p. So seqq. and Figs. 7, 8,
9. Here was also found a jug with a double axe
in white, suspended on the dark ground (p. 86,
Fig. 10).
2 Examples from the exterior cells of the
Early Tholos Ossuary of Hagia Triada are given
in Fig. 129, p. 181, above.
3 See below, p. 594 and Fig. 43G <r.
4 E. Pernier, Mon. Ant., xii, p. 107, Fig. 39.
This specimen is from the Palace at Phaestos.
The edge of a flat lid is visible. Others were
found at H. Triada and fragmentary re-
mains at Knossos. The type seems to have
persisted to the close of M. M. Ill, but
the later examples show less trace of poly-
chromy.
The bowl, Fig. 298, b, and fragments of others of the same type was found, Other
together with Fig. 299 a, amidst a heap of sherds outside a house to the W. of porary"
the Palace at Knossos, excavated in 1900.1 Among the vessels found, the !£Pes °*
& Dotted
small high spouted jug, Fig. 299«,is of great interest as presenting on both sides Ware'.
a triple spray of ears of barley moulded in high relief. Fig. 299 b shows the
barley spray itself. It was accompanied by raised decoration of a kind recalling Moulded
some of the old ' barbotine ' work. Though the vessel is small we ma)' perhaps Bailey on
infer that the liquor for which the vases were intended was not unconnected Small
. ' Tuff.
with 'John Barleycorn '. The ideographs coupling cereals with certain forms
ofvessels seen on tablets of the Linear Class indicate that in Late.Minoan times,
at all events, some kind of beer was brewed in Crete. Its usage seems to have
preceded that of wine in the island. A portion of an identical vessel was
found in the lower stratum of the blind well of the Court of the Stone Spout
in a deposit belonging to the earlier M. M. Ill phase.
In the same heap West of the Palace with the above occurred the two Pede-
remarkable high-footed vases, Fig. 300, a, I), upon the upper part of the bodies vLe-fof
of which are seen similar white dots on the black ground. The triple handles ^v^itel'
of these are themselves an archaic feature inherited from a large M. M. I Ware,
family of the ' barbotine ' class.2 The cable border on a recurs on a re-
markable 'ostrich egg' rhyton of contemporary fabric :; as a polychrome
feature; it represents a decorative tradition of the Third Early Minoan
Age. On some associated remains of similar vases the raised ring at the base
of the neck was painted red. In these cases both handles and neck are
painted a creamy white, like the rim of the vase, Fig. 298, c, above.
Both this creamy white wash and the pedestalled character of these vessels Poly-
bring them into a very close relation with a typical class of M. M. Ill vessels
with two upright handles, of which a specimen 4 is given in Fig. 301. Like tion of
. . . Egyptian
the above, this vessel also shows clear traces of a surviving polychrome Afabas-
tradition, the body being covered with a maroon slip, while round the neck tron type'
are zigzagging red lines. But the shape of the vase is of special interest
in the present connexion from the evidence that it supplies of the presence
1 Hogarth, op. cit., p. So seqq. and Figs. 7, 8,
9. Here was also found a jug with a double axe
in white, suspended on the dark ground (p. 86,
Fig. 10).
2 Examples from the exterior cells of the
Early Tholos Ossuary of Hagia Triada are given
in Fig. 129, p. 181, above.
3 See below, p. 594 and Fig. 43G <r.
4 E. Pernier, Mon. Ant., xii, p. 107, Fig. 39.
This specimen is from the Palace at Phaestos.
The edge of a flat lid is visible. Others were
found at H. Triada and fragmentary re-
mains at Knossos. The type seems to have
persisted to the close of M. M. Ill, but
the later examples show less trace of poly-
chromy.