Evans, Arthur J.: Scripta minoa: the written documents of minoan Crete with special reference to the archives of Knossos (Band 1): The hieroglyphic and primitive linear classes (Oxford, 1909)

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Triple least to the early part of the second millennium before our era. The threefold

receptacl
for liba-

receptade rcceptacle of the Dictaean Table itself, indeed, suggests interesting analogies with



a ritual usage that goes back to the earliest religious stratum of Greece. In the

Fig. 7. The Dictaean Libation Table and Baetylic Pillar, restored.

case ol such primitive worship as that of the Shades of the Departed,1 and again
that of the Nymphs, a triple libation was frequently offered. The /AeA.iKpijra, indeed,
which, followed in turn by sweet wine and water, made up these offerings, would
have been specially appropriate in the Cave Sanctuary where, according to the legend,

x In the Odyssey (x. 519-20) the offerings to the Dead before the falls of Styx are thus described;