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STRAINERS 91
block. It was not finished when the great catastrophe
came.
A brilliant alabaster marble was worked to make a
Triton shell,1 and the head of a lioness with jasper eyes,
which may have served as a spout for a fountain.8 The
great 64-pound weight, carved with the coiling tentacles
of an octopus, which we have already mentioned in rela-
tion to the Imperial weights and measures, was made of
purple gypsum ; ' as also was a tall lamp pedestal, with
its palmettes and lotus-buds.4 Variegated marble, too,
seems to have been a favourite material in the Palace
for the graceful fillers or strainers that were so common
in the Late Minoan periods,1 tall funnel-shaped vessels
with a perforation at the bottom through which liquid
poured into another vessel below. The common type
may have been merely used for pouring wine or water
into narrow-mouthed vessels like the false-necked vases,
which must have been hard to fill; but this kitchen or
store-room use hardly accounts for the more magnificent
specimens. When describing an Egyptian vessel of
similar shape, but of glazed blue faience,6 Mr. Henry
Wallis remarks that on one of the banqueting scenes
in a fresco from Tell-el-Amarna King Akhenaten holds
a bowl into which a slave pours wine through what is
clearly a strainer. As such a custom is not usually
represented in Egyptian art, he suggests that perhaps
some particular wine needed straining, as in Sicily to-day
the grape-skin and stones are often left in the wine of the
1 B.S.A. vi. p. 31. 2 Ibid.
8 See p. 15.
4 B.S.A. vi. p. 44.
e Five of marble, two of them fluted, are represented in the
Ashmolcan. Seventeen of pottery are mentioned from Palai-
kastro by Dawkins in B.S.A. ix. p. 310. For the Zakro ex-
ample, see above, p. 84.
• E.C.A. 1900, fig. 18, p. 10 (= Hall, O.C.G. fig. 53, p. 186).
It is in the British Museum, Egyptian Room, Wall Case 150.
No. 22731.
block. It was not finished when the great catastrophe
came.
A brilliant alabaster marble was worked to make a
Triton shell,1 and the head of a lioness with jasper eyes,
which may have served as a spout for a fountain.8 The
great 64-pound weight, carved with the coiling tentacles
of an octopus, which we have already mentioned in rela-
tion to the Imperial weights and measures, was made of
purple gypsum ; ' as also was a tall lamp pedestal, with
its palmettes and lotus-buds.4 Variegated marble, too,
seems to have been a favourite material in the Palace
for the graceful fillers or strainers that were so common
in the Late Minoan periods,1 tall funnel-shaped vessels
with a perforation at the bottom through which liquid
poured into another vessel below. The common type
may have been merely used for pouring wine or water
into narrow-mouthed vessels like the false-necked vases,
which must have been hard to fill; but this kitchen or
store-room use hardly accounts for the more magnificent
specimens. When describing an Egyptian vessel of
similar shape, but of glazed blue faience,6 Mr. Henry
Wallis remarks that on one of the banqueting scenes
in a fresco from Tell-el-Amarna King Akhenaten holds
a bowl into which a slave pours wine through what is
clearly a strainer. As such a custom is not usually
represented in Egyptian art, he suggests that perhaps
some particular wine needed straining, as in Sicily to-day
the grape-skin and stones are often left in the wine of the
1 B.S.A. vi. p. 31. 2 Ibid.
8 See p. 15.
4 B.S.A. vi. p. 44.
e Five of marble, two of them fluted, are represented in the
Ashmolcan. Seventeen of pottery are mentioned from Palai-
kastro by Dawkins in B.S.A. ix. p. 310. For the Zakro ex-
ample, see above, p. 84.
• E.C.A. 1900, fig. 18, p. 10 (= Hall, O.C.G. fig. 53, p. 186).
It is in the British Museum, Egyptian Room, Wall Case 150.
No. 22731.