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CHAPTER II
THE PALACES OF PH^STOS AND HAGIA TRIADA,
AND THE EXCAVATIONS IN EASTERN CRETE
We have spoken above of a visit to the Candia Museum
as necessary to a full understanding of the glories of
Knossos. If, however, such a visit were made with the
expectation of seeing Knossos, and nothing but Knossos,
the visitor would receive a shock. Various as they are,
Mr. Evans's finds fill barely half the room. Though no
single site can claim to rival Knossos, their cumulative
effect is almost as remarkable. It is not merely that
isolated deposits have been found at many points, such
as the interesting series of tombs in Eastern Crete, at
Muliana, Milatos, Kavusi, and Erganos near Lyttos, that
illustrate the transition from the Bronze to the Iron
Age; 1 or the strange red and black mottled ware of the
early house at Vasiliki near Gournia,2 and the gems and
high-spouted vases that come from Hagios Onuphrios
farther south ; 5 or the polychrome pottery that will
henceforward, wherever found, record its first discovery
by Mr. J. L. Myres,4 in the Kamares cave on the southern
slopes of Mount Ida. The other more famous cave of Ida,
the cave in the central peak that challenged the claims of
Dicte to be the birthplace of Zeus, has been defeated in
trial by excavation. In a grotto on the slopes of Dicte
above the village of Psychro, Mr. D. G. Hogarth found a
1 See pp. io 1-2, 209-17.
• T.D.A.P. iii. Part I. pp. 213-21. Sec below, p. 49.
3 J.H.S. xiv. p. 325. See below, pp. 52, 75.
* P.S.A. xv. 1895, pp. 351-6, Plates I.-IV. Sec below, p. 59.
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THE PALACES OF PH^STOS AND HAGIA TRIADA,
AND THE EXCAVATIONS IN EASTERN CRETE
We have spoken above of a visit to the Candia Museum
as necessary to a full understanding of the glories of
Knossos. If, however, such a visit were made with the
expectation of seeing Knossos, and nothing but Knossos,
the visitor would receive a shock. Various as they are,
Mr. Evans's finds fill barely half the room. Though no
single site can claim to rival Knossos, their cumulative
effect is almost as remarkable. It is not merely that
isolated deposits have been found at many points, such
as the interesting series of tombs in Eastern Crete, at
Muliana, Milatos, Kavusi, and Erganos near Lyttos, that
illustrate the transition from the Bronze to the Iron
Age; 1 or the strange red and black mottled ware of the
early house at Vasiliki near Gournia,2 and the gems and
high-spouted vases that come from Hagios Onuphrios
farther south ; 5 or the polychrome pottery that will
henceforward, wherever found, record its first discovery
by Mr. J. L. Myres,4 in the Kamares cave on the southern
slopes of Mount Ida. The other more famous cave of Ida,
the cave in the central peak that challenged the claims of
Dicte to be the birthplace of Zeus, has been defeated in
trial by excavation. In a grotto on the slopes of Dicte
above the village of Psychro, Mr. D. G. Hogarth found a
1 See pp. io 1-2, 209-17.
• T.D.A.P. iii. Part I. pp. 213-21. Sec below, p. 49.
3 J.H.S. xiv. p. 325. See below, pp. 52, 75.
* P.S.A. xv. 1895, pp. 351-6, Plates I.-IV. Sec below, p. 59.
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