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The Prehistoric Tombs of Knossos. 541
of this class, as was pointed out in my account of the Hagios Onuphrios Deposit/ are
practically identical with Twelfth Dynasty Egyptian examples. They are found associated
with Cretan remains of the Middle Minoan Period.
21. Fragment of a small diorite bowl. Original diameter 11 centimetres and height
5 centimetres. The contour of this vessel, as far as it is preserved, and the characteristic
moulding of the rim, resemble those of vases of serpentine alabaster and other materials
from Fourth Dynasty tombs at El Kab,b
now in the Ashmolean Museum. In the
restored drawing (fig. 128), which is due
to the kindness of Mr. C. F. Bell, the vase
is shown with a flat bottom like that of the
Egyptian example. Both the form and
material of this bowl make it probable that
we have here a part of an Egyptian vessel
of early Dynastic fabric. Other examples _,. ,„„ ■ , ,
* * . rig. 128. Diorite bowl : restored from a fragment.
of Old Empire Egyptian fabrics or their
exact reproductions by Cretan artificers have been found on the Palace site of Knossos,
and had apparently been preserved in the earlier building. Among them is a flat bowl
of diorite, another of liparite, and a higher and thicker bowl of syenite.0
23. Small fragments of serpentine vases.
24. Hooked pin of spirally twisted gold. Length 11*5 centimetres. (Fig. 129.) It is
somewhat pointed at the end and may have served as a hairpin. Bronze pins of similar
type have been found on other Cretan sites.'1
Vig. 129. Hooked pin of twisted gold.
25. Necklace of beads of lapis lazuli. The shapes are sufficiently shown in fig. 130.
The arrangement, however, there given is conjectural. The section of the square type of
the elongated beads approaches that of certain paste beads found in a chamber-tomb at
Phaestos.e The lapis lazuli examples of the present necklace are, however, more elegant
a In Cretan Pictographs, etc. Quaritch, 1895, p. 117 seqq.
b Quibell, El Kab, plate x. pp. 17, 30.
c A. J. E., Report: Knossos. B. S. A. viii. p. 121 seqq. and ix. p. 98.
d Eg. Augo, G-ournia, Zakro, and Palaikastro. See H. R. Hastings {American Journal of
Archaeology, ix. 279), who also regards them as hair-pins.
• Savignoni, Nec.ropoli di Phaestos, 141, fig. 100 c.
of this class, as was pointed out in my account of the Hagios Onuphrios Deposit/ are
practically identical with Twelfth Dynasty Egyptian examples. They are found associated
with Cretan remains of the Middle Minoan Period.
21. Fragment of a small diorite bowl. Original diameter 11 centimetres and height
5 centimetres. The contour of this vessel, as far as it is preserved, and the characteristic
moulding of the rim, resemble those of vases of serpentine alabaster and other materials
from Fourth Dynasty tombs at El Kab,b
now in the Ashmolean Museum. In the
restored drawing (fig. 128), which is due
to the kindness of Mr. C. F. Bell, the vase
is shown with a flat bottom like that of the
Egyptian example. Both the form and
material of this bowl make it probable that
we have here a part of an Egyptian vessel
of early Dynastic fabric. Other examples _,. ,„„ ■ , ,
* * . rig. 128. Diorite bowl : restored from a fragment.
of Old Empire Egyptian fabrics or their
exact reproductions by Cretan artificers have been found on the Palace site of Knossos,
and had apparently been preserved in the earlier building. Among them is a flat bowl
of diorite, another of liparite, and a higher and thicker bowl of syenite.0
23. Small fragments of serpentine vases.
24. Hooked pin of spirally twisted gold. Length 11*5 centimetres. (Fig. 129.) It is
somewhat pointed at the end and may have served as a hairpin. Bronze pins of similar
type have been found on other Cretan sites.'1
Vig. 129. Hooked pin of twisted gold.
25. Necklace of beads of lapis lazuli. The shapes are sufficiently shown in fig. 130.
The arrangement, however, there given is conjectural. The section of the square type of
the elongated beads approaches that of certain paste beads found in a chamber-tomb at
Phaestos.e The lapis lazuli examples of the present necklace are, however, more elegant
a In Cretan Pictographs, etc. Quaritch, 1895, p. 117 seqq.
b Quibell, El Kab, plate x. pp. 17, 30.
c A. J. E., Report: Knossos. B. S. A. viii. p. 121 seqq. and ix. p. 98.
d Eg. Augo, G-ournia, Zakro, and Palaikastro. See H. R. Hastings {American Journal of
Archaeology, ix. 279), who also regards them as hair-pins.
• Savignoni, Nec.ropoli di Phaestos, 141, fig. 100 c.