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PREFACE
XI
On Egyptological matters I have received valuable assistance from my
Oxford colleague, Mr. F. LI. Griffith, while Professor Flinders Petrie,
the late Dr. L. W. King and Dr. H. R. Hall of the British Museum, and
Mr. C. C. Edgar, of the Cairo Museum, have supplied me with much required
information.
In cases where the same conclusions may have been put forward
by other investigators before the appearance of these pages, I can at least
claim that my own views as here expressed have been independently
arrived at through a continuous experience of the results of the excava-
tions both at Knossos and on other Cretan sites. The writer has, therefore,
some right to be allowed to set down his own conclusions, gradually formed,
in the course of years, from a first-hand knowledge of the materials, without
seeking to inquire at every turn whether similar opinions may have been
already expressed in print in other quarters. Where I have been con-
sciously indebted to the researches or ideas of others, I have, indeed, always
endeavoured to express my acknowledgements. I was fortunate in securing
the services of Dr. Duncan Mackenzie as my Assistant in the excavations,
and my thanks are exceptionally clue to him for the continued help that he
has rendered to me at every turn in the course of the present work, and for
his careful revision of the proofs. His special archaeological knowledge,
particularly in the ceramic field,1 is so widely recognized that it is with great
satisfaction that I am able to record that in all main points in my scheme
of classification he is in complete agreement with me.
In 1913, in order to decide various important problems regarding the
building which remained to be elucidated, I undertook a supplementary
campaign of excavation on the Palace site, in the course of which I executed
about a hundred fresh sounclino's beneath the floors.
Difficulties and preoccupations, however, caused by the Great War
delayed the publication of this work, the materials for which were already in
an advanced state in 1914. Since then, moreover, a vast amount of new
R. M. Burrows in The Discoveries in Crete and their bearing on the History of ancient Civilisation,
London (John Murray), 1907 ; to Professor Rene Dussaud's Civilisations pre'helle'niques dans
le bassin de la mer Ege'e, Paris (Geuthner), 1914; or to the learned series of contributions by
Dr. H. R. Hall, of which the last are contained in his History of the Near East (Methuen and
Co.), London, 1919.
1 Two monographs on Minoan pottery have been published by Ur. Mackenzie in the
Journal of Hellenic Studies, vols, xxiii, pp. 152-205 ; xxvi, pp. 243-67. See too his comparative
studies on the relations of Crete and Melos in Excavations at Phylakopi, pp. 238-72, and on
Cretan Palaces and the Aegean Civilization, in B. S. A., XI-XIV.
XI
On Egyptological matters I have received valuable assistance from my
Oxford colleague, Mr. F. LI. Griffith, while Professor Flinders Petrie,
the late Dr. L. W. King and Dr. H. R. Hall of the British Museum, and
Mr. C. C. Edgar, of the Cairo Museum, have supplied me with much required
information.
In cases where the same conclusions may have been put forward
by other investigators before the appearance of these pages, I can at least
claim that my own views as here expressed have been independently
arrived at through a continuous experience of the results of the excava-
tions both at Knossos and on other Cretan sites. The writer has, therefore,
some right to be allowed to set down his own conclusions, gradually formed,
in the course of years, from a first-hand knowledge of the materials, without
seeking to inquire at every turn whether similar opinions may have been
already expressed in print in other quarters. Where I have been con-
sciously indebted to the researches or ideas of others, I have, indeed, always
endeavoured to express my acknowledgements. I was fortunate in securing
the services of Dr. Duncan Mackenzie as my Assistant in the excavations,
and my thanks are exceptionally clue to him for the continued help that he
has rendered to me at every turn in the course of the present work, and for
his careful revision of the proofs. His special archaeological knowledge,
particularly in the ceramic field,1 is so widely recognized that it is with great
satisfaction that I am able to record that in all main points in my scheme
of classification he is in complete agreement with me.
In 1913, in order to decide various important problems regarding the
building which remained to be elucidated, I undertook a supplementary
campaign of excavation on the Palace site, in the course of which I executed
about a hundred fresh sounclino's beneath the floors.
Difficulties and preoccupations, however, caused by the Great War
delayed the publication of this work, the materials for which were already in
an advanced state in 1914. Since then, moreover, a vast amount of new
R. M. Burrows in The Discoveries in Crete and their bearing on the History of ancient Civilisation,
London (John Murray), 1907 ; to Professor Rene Dussaud's Civilisations pre'helle'niques dans
le bassin de la mer Ege'e, Paris (Geuthner), 1914; or to the learned series of contributions by
Dr. H. R. Hall, of which the last are contained in his History of the Near East (Methuen and
Co.), London, 1919.
1 Two monographs on Minoan pottery have been published by Ur. Mackenzie in the
Journal of Hellenic Studies, vols, xxiii, pp. 152-205 ; xxvi, pp. 243-67. See too his comparative
studies on the relations of Crete and Melos in Excavations at Phylakopi, pp. 238-72, and on
Cretan Palaces and the Aegean Civilization, in B. S. A., XI-XIV.