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INCENSE-BURNERS ON FLOOR OF TOMB ion
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of the young child.
I leton suggests that it represented the grandfather rather than the father
nf the OT'Sin!,"y
01 Ule on floor or
in coffins.
'Incense-burners' or Ritual Fumigators placed on Floor of Tomb
It may be supposed that the remains of these two;' individuals had skeletons
been either simply laid—as in many other cases—on the floor
sepulchral chamber or possibly enclosed together in a wooden coffin.
The deposition of the peculium of the dead in a shallow pit can itself pit for
be paralleled by other instances, one of which occurred in the 'Tomb of the-p^|cled
Tripod Hearth' at Zafer Papoura. by^Ton*
In addition to this, however, it seems clear that in the present case Hearth',
certain vessels found outside the actual cavity on the floor-level had from the
first been destined for that position. This refers especially to two vessels of
a well-known sepulchral class, which in this connexion may be best described
as 'incense-burners' or■' fumigators'. The larger of these exactly corre-
sponds with one that still contained the charcoal from the Chamber Tomb,
No. 32, at Zafer Papoura1; and which was associated with L. M. Ilia
pottery. Two others, again, closely resembling this occurred in the built
tomb, No. 1 at Isopata,2 where the ceramic association was. of an advanced
L. M. II type. One of the vessels in this case contained not only remains
of charcoal, but, with it, pieces of pure resin in a decayed condition.3
Enough remained, however, to give a resinous smell when burnt, and there
can be no doubt that, blended perhaps with other odorous substances, this
had been used for the ritual fumigation of the burial chamber.
The vessels from the 'Temple Tomb', however, though of the same lncense-
type, were representative of the further ceremonial stage from which the 0rcere!
actual burning was excluded. Like a specimen from Hagia Triada, they monial
55 1 . type, with
were both covered with an imperfectly fixed coloured decoration, found on painted
vases of various forms in the Knossos cemeteries* and elsewhere, and ti°" *
entirely dedicated to funereal use.
Of the two ceremonial ' incense-burners' thus set out in connexion with
'Incense-
burners '
or 'fumi-
gators '.
1 A. E., The Prehistoric Tombs of Knossos
(Quaritch, 1906), p. 49, Fig. 46 (Archaeologia,
vol. lix, p. 439).
' A. E., Tomb of the Double Axes, &-V.
(Quaritch, 1914), p. ,,, Fig. r8 {Archaeo-
logia, lxv).
'^ Professor Otto Olshausen (who kindly ex-
amined a fragment of the material at the time)
informed me that it was reduced to the
condition of a kind of natural cohphonium,
from which the oil of terpentine had mostly
disappeared, though enough remained to give
a resinous smell when burnt.
* Good examples are supplied by the
L. M. I polychrome goblets from Tomb 5 at
Isopata (pp. at, PI IV, see p. 26 seqq.)
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uggests tl
of the young child.
I leton suggests that it represented the grandfather rather than the father
nf the OT'Sin!,"y
01 Ule on floor or
in coffins.
'Incense-burners' or Ritual Fumigators placed on Floor of Tomb
It may be supposed that the remains of these two;' individuals had skeletons
been either simply laid—as in many other cases—on the floor
sepulchral chamber or possibly enclosed together in a wooden coffin.
The deposition of the peculium of the dead in a shallow pit can itself pit for
be paralleled by other instances, one of which occurred in the 'Tomb of the-p^|cled
Tripod Hearth' at Zafer Papoura. by^Ton*
In addition to this, however, it seems clear that in the present case Hearth',
certain vessels found outside the actual cavity on the floor-level had from the
first been destined for that position. This refers especially to two vessels of
a well-known sepulchral class, which in this connexion may be best described
as 'incense-burners' or■' fumigators'. The larger of these exactly corre-
sponds with one that still contained the charcoal from the Chamber Tomb,
No. 32, at Zafer Papoura1; and which was associated with L. M. Ilia
pottery. Two others, again, closely resembling this occurred in the built
tomb, No. 1 at Isopata,2 where the ceramic association was. of an advanced
L. M. II type. One of the vessels in this case contained not only remains
of charcoal, but, with it, pieces of pure resin in a decayed condition.3
Enough remained, however, to give a resinous smell when burnt, and there
can be no doubt that, blended perhaps with other odorous substances, this
had been used for the ritual fumigation of the burial chamber.
The vessels from the 'Temple Tomb', however, though of the same lncense-
type, were representative of the further ceremonial stage from which the 0rcere!
actual burning was excluded. Like a specimen from Hagia Triada, they monial
55 1 . type, with
were both covered with an imperfectly fixed coloured decoration, found on painted
vases of various forms in the Knossos cemeteries* and elsewhere, and ti°" *
entirely dedicated to funereal use.
Of the two ceremonial ' incense-burners' thus set out in connexion with
'Incense-
burners '
or 'fumi-
gators '.
1 A. E., The Prehistoric Tombs of Knossos
(Quaritch, 1906), p. 49, Fig. 46 (Archaeologia,
vol. lix, p. 439).
' A. E., Tomb of the Double Axes, &-V.
(Quaritch, 1914), p. ,,, Fig. r8 {Archaeo-
logia, lxv).
'^ Professor Otto Olshausen (who kindly ex-
amined a fragment of the material at the time)
informed me that it was reduced to the
condition of a kind of natural cohphonium,
from which the oil of terpentine had mostly
disappeared, though enough remained to give
a resinous smell when burnt.
* Good examples are supplied by the
L. M. I polychrome goblets from Tomb 5 at
Isopata (pp. at, PI IV, see p. 26 seqq.)
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