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AND ASSOCIATED GROUP AT KNOSSOS
5i
On the inner right-hand corner of the floor was a flat clay ' alabastron ' (2 r,
fig. 67) of the usual class, with plain undulating and beaded decoration. Near the
opposite corner was a plain pedestalled cup (2 /, fig. 68), with two handles of
a form derived from a class of similar goblets in precious metals, of which ex-
amples were found in the Shaft Graves of Mycenae. Clay cups of this type
become commoner in the succeeding Third Late Minoan Age.
The whole series of painted vases found in this tomb forms a very homo-
geneous group, and they were obviously in several cases the work of the same
hands. Certain typical motives, such as the waved pattern, that appears on 2 /
Fig. 69. Ritual vessel. (}J
and 2 n, the shoulder ornament of 2 m and 2 n, and a variety of decorative spray
common to 2 m and 2 n, link on one with another. So many, indeed, are the points
of conformity, that they may well be described as belonging to the same ' set'. The
style is uniform and answers to that of the concluding age of the Palace of
Knossos, in other words, the second Late Minoan Period. It is the ' Palace
Style' in its most fully developed phase.
In the angle of the floor area immediately in front of the column in relief
were found some relics of exceptional interest. In this space, in a broken con-
dition, lay the remains of a vessel1 which, from its doubly coiled handles, and in
1 During some early disturbance of the tomb a fragment of this vessel had been separated from
the rest and was found just inside the doorway.
h 2
5i
On the inner right-hand corner of the floor was a flat clay ' alabastron ' (2 r,
fig. 67) of the usual class, with plain undulating and beaded decoration. Near the
opposite corner was a plain pedestalled cup (2 /, fig. 68), with two handles of
a form derived from a class of similar goblets in precious metals, of which ex-
amples were found in the Shaft Graves of Mycenae. Clay cups of this type
become commoner in the succeeding Third Late Minoan Age.
The whole series of painted vases found in this tomb forms a very homo-
geneous group, and they were obviously in several cases the work of the same
hands. Certain typical motives, such as the waved pattern, that appears on 2 /
Fig. 69. Ritual vessel. (}J
and 2 n, the shoulder ornament of 2 m and 2 n, and a variety of decorative spray
common to 2 m and 2 n, link on one with another. So many, indeed, are the points
of conformity, that they may well be described as belonging to the same ' set'. The
style is uniform and answers to that of the concluding age of the Palace of
Knossos, in other words, the second Late Minoan Period. It is the ' Palace
Style' in its most fully developed phase.
In the angle of the floor area immediately in front of the column in relief
were found some relics of exceptional interest. In this space, in a broken con-
dition, lay the remains of a vessel1 which, from its doubly coiled handles, and in
1 During some early disturbance of the tomb a fragment of this vessel had been separated from
the rest and was found just inside the doorway.
h 2