Evans, Arthur J.: The Palace of Minos: a comparative account of the successive stages of the early Cretan civilization as illustred by the discoveries at Knossos (Band 3): The great transitional age in the northern and eastern sections of the Palace (London, 1930)

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The whole is good sculptural work, answering in style and many details
to the faience figures of the 'Temple Repositories', and dating from the

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Fig. 293. Steatite Figurine from Tylissos with Painted Surface (•§).

same fine transitional epoch, the advanced phase of M. M. III. This corre-
sponds with the approximate date of the steatite Sphinxes, which in the case
of the remains of the Knossian example is well ascertained as belonging to
a Treasury deposit of that epoch. The statement that the figurine was found
at Tylissos in company with the Sphinx illustrated in Fig. 291 is therefore
so far confirmed.