Forsdyke, Edgar J.; British Museum <London> [Hrsg.]: Catalogue of the Greek and Etruscan Vases in the British Museum (Band 1,1): Prehistoric Aegean pottery (London, 1925)

LATE MINOAN.

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paint, which has in places trickled down the side.

in.

In the floor is a row of eleven
roughly-pierced oblong holes, about J in. by \ in. (Fig. 170.)

[L.M. III. The chests are also domestic furniture put to funerary use, though the
drainage-holes pierced before firing show that some were specially made for coffins. They are
more usual than baths in the chamber-tombs of central Crete, and rather earlier in date. The
chests themselves are plainly clay copies of wooden models, which seem to have been derived
from Egypt. See A 733, note ; Evans, Prehistoric Tombs of Knossos, p. 9, and references
there given; Orsi in Moil. Ant, \ (1890), p. 202; Bosanquet in B.S.A., viii, p. 297, and
Palaikastro, p. 152.]

A 746.