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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A. j. Evans

Two very elegant, handled cups remain to be described. They are both
of the same shape, and the pale green surface of their sides is in both cases
relieved by fern-like sprays of a deep brown colour. But the vase shown
in Fig. 53 a and b presents a further decoration of singular beauty and
originality. In this case there springs from the top of the handle another
spray in relief—apparently of rose leaves—which spreads over part of the

Fig. 53 a.—Faience Cup showing Fernlike Fig. 53 b.—Faience Cup from above,

Sprays on Exterior (f). showing Rose Leaves in Relief (j).

inner margin of the cup. It may be suspected from their shape and the
subjects of the designs that these vessels were used to hold flowers for
altar decoration.

The most remarkable of all the faience objects discovered in the
Repository, the images of a Goddess and her votaries, are reserved for the
succeeding Section.

$ 14.—The Snake Goddess, Votaries and Votive Robes.

The remaining faience relics of the Temple Repositories bear a still
more directly religious character. Of these the most remarkable are