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CHAPTER V
EGYPTIAN CHRONOLOGY AND THE DATE OF THE
MIDDLE MI NO AN PERIODS
The high level of art and civilisation to which these two
last Middle Minoan periods attain makes it a matter of
vital interest that we should be able within reasonable
limits to fix their date. We turn therefore with expecta-
tion to a considerable number of links that seem to connect
them with contemporary Egypt. Vases that are un-
doubtedly of the Middle Minoan II. Kamares type, and
imported from Crete to Egypt,1 were found at the place
now called Kahun, close to Senusert II.'s pyramid at
Illahun, due east of the Fayum ; and their discoverer,
Professor Flinders Petrie, although doubtful at the first,8
has for many years assigned the deposits in which they
were found to the time of the Xllth Dynasty to which
Senusert II. belonged.' Mr. Evans accepts the syn-
chronism, and assigns to Middle Minoan II. the picto-
graphic Cretan seal stones that are certainly derived
from Xllth Dynasty types.4 He further assigns to the
following Middle Minoan III. stratum 5 a small seated
1 So not only Petrie, but von Bissing in S.H. pp. 20-7.
2 K.G.H. 1890, p. 43. See Hall in J.H.S. xxv. p. 321.
3 J.H.S. xi. p. 199, and M.A.A. 1904, p. 157.
4 E.C. p. 8 ; J.H.S. xiv. 1894, fig. 49, p. 327. Sec, however,
below, p. 75.
5 E.C. p. 9. The facts as to the stratum in which it was dis-
covered are thus satisfactorily accounted for. Hall (O.C.G. p. 320)
was right in doubting that it could be assigned, as it originally
was, to the Kamares period.
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EGYPTIAN CHRONOLOGY AND THE DATE OF THE
MIDDLE MI NO AN PERIODS
The high level of art and civilisation to which these two
last Middle Minoan periods attain makes it a matter of
vital interest that we should be able within reasonable
limits to fix their date. We turn therefore with expecta-
tion to a considerable number of links that seem to connect
them with contemporary Egypt. Vases that are un-
doubtedly of the Middle Minoan II. Kamares type, and
imported from Crete to Egypt,1 were found at the place
now called Kahun, close to Senusert II.'s pyramid at
Illahun, due east of the Fayum ; and their discoverer,
Professor Flinders Petrie, although doubtful at the first,8
has for many years assigned the deposits in which they
were found to the time of the Xllth Dynasty to which
Senusert II. belonged.' Mr. Evans accepts the syn-
chronism, and assigns to Middle Minoan II. the picto-
graphic Cretan seal stones that are certainly derived
from Xllth Dynasty types.4 He further assigns to the
following Middle Minoan III. stratum 5 a small seated
1 So not only Petrie, but von Bissing in S.H. pp. 20-7.
2 K.G.H. 1890, p. 43. See Hall in J.H.S. xxv. p. 321.
3 J.H.S. xi. p. 199, and M.A.A. 1904, p. 157.
4 E.C. p. 8 ; J.H.S. xiv. 1894, fig. 49, p. 327. Sec, however,
below, p. 75.
5 E.C. p. 9. The facts as to the stratum in which it was dis-
covered are thus satisfactorily accounted for. Hall (O.C.G. p. 320)
was right in doubting that it could be assigned, as it originally
was, to the Kamares period.
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