The Palace of Knossos: Provisional Report for the Year 1903 (in: The Annual of the British School at Athens, 9.1902/1903, S. 1-153) (London, 1903)

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ground, together with some contemporary pottery with a light
ground. The Dove Vase itself was found here at a depth of about 4
metres below the surface of the ground. Various clay sealings of the
Middle Minoan Period including some with pictographic characters 1 also
occurred. A certain proportion of the polychrome pottery was of the
fine egg-shell class so well represented among the contents of the East
Magazines,2 but there was here a larger proportion of coarser wares.
It was also clear that some of these belonged to an earlier period than any

FiG; 7. —Early Minoan Basement with Monolithic Pillars.

of the vases of the East Magazines. A noteworthy feature here was the
presence of polychrome fragments with plain angular decoration, such as
•chevrons and lozenges accompanied with dots, on a dark ground. These
must be regarded as direct painted imitations of the more primitive hand-
polished black ware with incised and punctuated patterns of the same
■character, filled in with pounded gypsum and occasionally also with red

1 See Report, 1902, pp. 106, 107, Fig. 64.

2 Report, 1902, pp. 118-120, and Figs. 70, 71.