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44 EARLY MINOAN I
Italian at Phaistos.1 They at least have not felt that
the word Minoan implies an unwarrantable thalassocracy
of Knossos over the .Egean world ! However com-
plicated the evidence may be—and it is one of the objects
of the present book to explain it—no archaeologist can
afford to ignore Mr. Evans's system and talk airily of
" Knossos I." a There is no such thing as Knossos I.
It would be as sensible to talk of " Athens I.," or " Troy
XXV." ! The Minoan classification may be modified,
or it may be opposed, but it must be grappled with.
Those who ignore it will find that they have dropped
behind.
The first of the nine epochs thus designated as Minoan
immediately succeeds the Neolithic Age. Its deposit
reaches to a depth of 17 feet below the surface of the
soil, while below it the Neolithic remains are found, at
one testing-point to a farther depth of nearly 21 feet,
at another to one of 26 feet.5 Mr. Evans seeks to
fix its date by certain connections that its remains show
with those of early Egypt. The black hand-burnished
ware that it has inherited from the latest Neolithic Age
is stated by Professor Petrie to be " indistinguishable in
colour, burnish, and gerieral appearance " from certain
vases which he has found in 1st Dynasty tombs at
Abydos; and he suggests that this pottery is un-
Egyptian in character and may have been imported
from Crete.' Further a Syenite vase and Liparite
and Diorite bowls found in the Palace of Knossos,
if not actually importations from Egypt, are certainly
based on Egyptian models of a very early period, and
are used by Mr. Evans to connect Early Minoan I. with
1 Halbherr in Rend. xiv. 190s, pp. 374, 393.
- E.g. in the last published number of A Hi. Mitt. (xxxi.
1906, p. 364) some vase fragments are said to be like " Troja II.
and Knossos I."
^ B.S.A. x. p. 25.
' Ibid. p. 23. Sec Petrie, M.A.A. 1904, fig. 64, p. 166.
Italian at Phaistos.1 They at least have not felt that
the word Minoan implies an unwarrantable thalassocracy
of Knossos over the .Egean world ! However com-
plicated the evidence may be—and it is one of the objects
of the present book to explain it—no archaeologist can
afford to ignore Mr. Evans's system and talk airily of
" Knossos I." a There is no such thing as Knossos I.
It would be as sensible to talk of " Athens I.," or " Troy
XXV." ! The Minoan classification may be modified,
or it may be opposed, but it must be grappled with.
Those who ignore it will find that they have dropped
behind.
The first of the nine epochs thus designated as Minoan
immediately succeeds the Neolithic Age. Its deposit
reaches to a depth of 17 feet below the surface of the
soil, while below it the Neolithic remains are found, at
one testing-point to a farther depth of nearly 21 feet,
at another to one of 26 feet.5 Mr. Evans seeks to
fix its date by certain connections that its remains show
with those of early Egypt. The black hand-burnished
ware that it has inherited from the latest Neolithic Age
is stated by Professor Petrie to be " indistinguishable in
colour, burnish, and gerieral appearance " from certain
vases which he has found in 1st Dynasty tombs at
Abydos; and he suggests that this pottery is un-
Egyptian in character and may have been imported
from Crete.' Further a Syenite vase and Liparite
and Diorite bowls found in the Palace of Knossos,
if not actually importations from Egypt, are certainly
based on Egyptian models of a very early period, and
are used by Mr. Evans to connect Early Minoan I. with
1 Halbherr in Rend. xiv. 190s, pp. 374, 393.
- E.g. in the last published number of A Hi. Mitt. (xxxi.
1906, p. 364) some vase fragments are said to be like " Troja II.
and Knossos I."
^ B.S.A. x. p. 25.
' Ibid. p. 23. Sec Petrie, M.A.A. 1904, fig. 64, p. 166.