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A. J. Evans
designs from the earlier incised patterns, this deposit has a quite unique
value. The incised rectangle with diagonal lines, forming an x within it,
seen on Nos. 9 and 10, is transformed before our eyes into the double triangle
of the painted jars Nos. 11 and 12, and again into the similar ' butterfly' pat-
tern of the vases grouped under No. 13. This painted double triangle or
' butterfly' design recurs on fragments of vases found low clown in the
earl)- basement described in Section 3 : an interesting proof, as already
noted, that its construction goes back to the ' Early Minoan Period.'
Amongst other objects found in this deposit were some much oxidized
pieces of copper or bronze, an obsidian block, containing nests of crystals,
obsidian knives, a fragmentary crystal relic, like a solid thimble,1 a
small piece of gold plate and a quantity of beads of faience or native
porcelain. The smallest of these are of a deep cobalt blue. The other
Fig. 67 a and b.—Early Dynastic Egyptian Vase ok Syenite, krom Palace.
bugles and globular beads with a very large perforation are of a pale bluish
or greenish hue resembling the Egyptian faience of the Early Dynasties.
These beads are absolutely distinct from those found in the Temple
Repository, and the nearest Egyptian parallels seem to date from the Sixth
Dynasty.
Of the early connexions of the Knossian site with Egypt another
significant proof has been made out this season. In the same Palace
region, on the border of what was at first known as the ' Central Clay
Area,' there had been found in 1900 a stone vessel (Fig. 67) which was at
first set down as one of the Cretan imitations of Egyptian forms. Prof. Petrie,
however, who had an opportunity of inspecting it last spring in the Museum
at Candia, at once recognised that it was formed of Egyptian syenite and
1 Diameter at top i "S centimetre.
A. J. Evans
designs from the earlier incised patterns, this deposit has a quite unique
value. The incised rectangle with diagonal lines, forming an x within it,
seen on Nos. 9 and 10, is transformed before our eyes into the double triangle
of the painted jars Nos. 11 and 12, and again into the similar ' butterfly' pat-
tern of the vases grouped under No. 13. This painted double triangle or
' butterfly' design recurs on fragments of vases found low clown in the
earl)- basement described in Section 3 : an interesting proof, as already
noted, that its construction goes back to the ' Early Minoan Period.'
Amongst other objects found in this deposit were some much oxidized
pieces of copper or bronze, an obsidian block, containing nests of crystals,
obsidian knives, a fragmentary crystal relic, like a solid thimble,1 a
small piece of gold plate and a quantity of beads of faience or native
porcelain. The smallest of these are of a deep cobalt blue. The other
Fig. 67 a and b.—Early Dynastic Egyptian Vase ok Syenite, krom Palace.
bugles and globular beads with a very large perforation are of a pale bluish
or greenish hue resembling the Egyptian faience of the Early Dynasties.
These beads are absolutely distinct from those found in the Temple
Repository, and the nearest Egyptian parallels seem to date from the Sixth
Dynasty.
Of the early connexions of the Knossian site with Egypt another
significant proof has been made out this season. In the same Palace
region, on the border of what was at first known as the ' Central Clay
Area,' there had been found in 1900 a stone vessel (Fig. 67) which was at
first set down as one of the Cretan imitations of Egyptian forms. Prof. Petrie,
however, who had an opportunity of inspecting it last spring in the Museum
at Candia, at once recognised that it was formed of Egyptian syenite and
1 Diameter at top i "S centimetre.