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The Prehistoric Tombs of Knossos.
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raised flange. The type is identical with that of a dagger found with a small hoard of
other bronze weapons and implements on the Acropolis at Athens."
95/. Clay chafing-pan, resembling fig. 32 (broken).
9og. Bronze mirror, diameter 18 centimetres.
No. 96. Chamber-Tomb. Entrance to east. This tomb had been broken into
and plundered. There were remains of two skeletons with their heads east, and
in the north-west corner a small hollow containing two skulls and bones ; these
also a good deal decayed. Near the north skeleton were two whorls, and by that
on the south border of the chamber the following relics:
D6a. Plain bracelet of bronze wire, diameter 7'8 centimetres.
(J6?>. Fragmentary remains of small spouted clay vase.
96c. Plain clay bowl with two bandies rising from rim, diameter 15*5 centimetres.
(Fig. 114, 96c.)
No. 97. Chamber-Tomb. Entrance east. Approached by a dromos 1 metre
wide and 3'50 metres long. The door, 60 centimetres wide and 1*10 centimetres
high, had been broken in, and the roof of the chamber, which was 1*84 metres
square, has collapsed. Remains of a skeleton were found with the head west,
and near the north wall were found two crystal pendants, a bead, and a steatite
figure apparently used as an amulet.
Fig. 95. Steatite pendant in form
of a female figure, from
Chamber-Tomb (No. 97). (a )
Fig. 96. Drop-shaped pendants and bead of crystal,
frcm Chamber-Tomb (No. 97). (a.)
97«. Female figure of black steatite perforated thrcugh the shoulders for suspension.
It has the usual Late Minoan (Mycenaean) flounces, and cross grooves on the upper
part of the body. (Fig. 95.) This figure seems to be of the nature of an amulet, and may
be taken to represent the great Goddess of Minoan Crete, later known as Rhea. Other
small steatite figures of the same kind, perforated for suspension, have been found in
Crete.b Another similar amulet of dark steatite, now in the Ashmolean Museum, is said
to have been found in the Lebanon.
B Montelius, Eltfynd fr&n Athens akropolis, 4, fig 3
b One is in the Ashmolean Museum.
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raised flange. The type is identical with that of a dagger found with a small hoard of
other bronze weapons and implements on the Acropolis at Athens."
95/. Clay chafing-pan, resembling fig. 32 (broken).
9og. Bronze mirror, diameter 18 centimetres.
No. 96. Chamber-Tomb. Entrance to east. This tomb had been broken into
and plundered. There were remains of two skeletons with their heads east, and
in the north-west corner a small hollow containing two skulls and bones ; these
also a good deal decayed. Near the north skeleton were two whorls, and by that
on the south border of the chamber the following relics:
D6a. Plain bracelet of bronze wire, diameter 7'8 centimetres.
(J6?>. Fragmentary remains of small spouted clay vase.
96c. Plain clay bowl with two bandies rising from rim, diameter 15*5 centimetres.
(Fig. 114, 96c.)
No. 97. Chamber-Tomb. Entrance east. Approached by a dromos 1 metre
wide and 3'50 metres long. The door, 60 centimetres wide and 1*10 centimetres
high, had been broken in, and the roof of the chamber, which was 1*84 metres
square, has collapsed. Remains of a skeleton were found with the head west,
and near the north wall were found two crystal pendants, a bead, and a steatite
figure apparently used as an amulet.
Fig. 95. Steatite pendant in form
of a female figure, from
Chamber-Tomb (No. 97). (a )
Fig. 96. Drop-shaped pendants and bead of crystal,
frcm Chamber-Tomb (No. 97). (a.)
97«. Female figure of black steatite perforated thrcugh the shoulders for suspension.
It has the usual Late Minoan (Mycenaean) flounces, and cross grooves on the upper
part of the body. (Fig. 95.) This figure seems to be of the nature of an amulet, and may
be taken to represent the great Goddess of Minoan Crete, later known as Rhea. Other
small steatite figures of the same kind, perforated for suspension, have been found in
Crete.b Another similar amulet of dark steatite, now in the Ashmolean Museum, is said
to have been found in the Lebanon.
B Montelius, Eltfynd fr&n Athens akropolis, 4, fig 3
b One is in the Ashmolean Museum.