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SCRIPTA MINOA
seal, we see a beautiful delineation of a fish and sepia in a rock-girt pool. Nothing can
exceed the exquisite naturalism of this design.
Itsc,°se The close of this Third Middle Minoan Period was marked at Knossos by a
extensive widespread catastrophe in the Palace and its dependencies, followed, perhaps after
Either owing to the effects of the catastrophe or to the subsequent structural changes,
certain chambers and repositories belonging to the original structure were now filled
in or covered over, in many cases containing relics belonging to the last days of the
Palace in its original form. The progress of the excavations thus brought to light in
various parts of the site a series of contemporary deposits of this character which
were clearly separated off from the overlying remains of the building as remodelled
during the early part of the Late Minoan Age.
Fig. ii. Clay Sealings with impressions of Minoan Gems (J).
Hiero-
glyphic
Disk from
Phaestos.
I. $4. THE HIEROGLYPHIC DISK FROM PHAESTOS
It has already been noticed in the preceding Section that a clay tablet with
a hieroglyphic inscription of the same class as those of Knossos was discovered in
the Palace of Phaestos. While this work was in the press, in July 1908, Dr. Pernier
of the Italian Mission, in the course of supplementary excavations beneath some Hellenic
constructions at the north-eastern extremity of the Phaestian acropolis, brought to
light a chamber in which, amongst various objects, illustrating the concluding phase of
the Middle Minoan Period,1 was a clay disk covered on both sides with a hieroglyphic
inscription larger than any yet discovered.
A detailed account of this must be reserved for the concluding part of the present
volume. Thanks, however, to the kindness of Dr. Pernier, who has placed at my
1 J am indebted to Professor Halbherr for this piece of information.
seal, we see a beautiful delineation of a fish and sepia in a rock-girt pool. Nothing can
exceed the exquisite naturalism of this design.
Itsc,°se The close of this Third Middle Minoan Period was marked at Knossos by a
extensive widespread catastrophe in the Palace and its dependencies, followed, perhaps after
Either owing to the effects of the catastrophe or to the subsequent structural changes,
certain chambers and repositories belonging to the original structure were now filled
in or covered over, in many cases containing relics belonging to the last days of the
Palace in its original form. The progress of the excavations thus brought to light in
various parts of the site a series of contemporary deposits of this character which
were clearly separated off from the overlying remains of the building as remodelled
during the early part of the Late Minoan Age.
Fig. ii. Clay Sealings with impressions of Minoan Gems (J).
Hiero-
glyphic
Disk from
Phaestos.
I. $4. THE HIEROGLYPHIC DISK FROM PHAESTOS
It has already been noticed in the preceding Section that a clay tablet with
a hieroglyphic inscription of the same class as those of Knossos was discovered in
the Palace of Phaestos. While this work was in the press, in July 1908, Dr. Pernier
of the Italian Mission, in the course of supplementary excavations beneath some Hellenic
constructions at the north-eastern extremity of the Phaestian acropolis, brought to
light a chamber in which, amongst various objects, illustrating the concluding phase of
the Middle Minoan Period,1 was a clay disk covered on both sides with a hieroglyphic
inscription larger than any yet discovered.
A detailed account of this must be reserved for the concluding part of the present
volume. Thanks, however, to the kindness of Dr. Pernier, who has placed at my
1 J am indebted to Professor Halbherr for this piece of information.