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EARLY MINOAN I (WITH SUB-NEOLITHIC)
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date—at Mochlos, and which is almost certainly to be regarded as a votive
deposit.1 The pottery here found must be referred to a comparatively early
stage of the present Period and is best described as 'Sub-Neolithic'. At Votjve
the same time the discovery in the shallow bowl of Figf. lQ.d, of a fragment Depositat
Mochlos.
of copper, perhaps part of a knife, shows that the use of metal was already be- 1 Chalco-
o-innine- The First Early Minoan Period may be described as ' Chalcolithic '. i1!)™:
In addition to heaps of plain pots and cups, usual in the votive deposits of
Minoan Crete, there was here found a red clay object with a horned projection
rising at each end, Fig. 16, c, of quite exceptional interest from the religious
point of view. There is great probability in Mr. Seager's view 2 that we have
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Fig. 16. Pottery from Early Votive Deposit, Mochlos {\).
in this horned obiect the precursor of the 1 1 lorns of Consecration ', generally Sacral
• -i at- Horns
formed of clay with a plaster coating, that mark the later Minoan sane- of Clay.
tuaries.3 In the succeeding Period the miniature votive form of the sacred
Double Axe, their principal cult object, was already in existence. The ritual
elements of Minoan cult can thus be traced back to the borders of the
Neolithic A^e.
Clay ladles with handles of varying lengths—abundant at Knossos among Ladles
the Neolithic forms—are well represented in this deposit (Fig. 1G, a, b) ; these and ups"
E. M. I ladles, however, are of reddish clay often covered with a red wash.
Another Neolithic type, the plain handleless cup of hemispherical form, is
also common (Fig. 16,/), as well as others with a flat bottom (J, k). The
1 Seager, Mochlos, pp. 92, 93, and Fig. 48, Nos. 29-42.
2 Op. at., p. 93. 3 See Vol. II.
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date—at Mochlos, and which is almost certainly to be regarded as a votive
deposit.1 The pottery here found must be referred to a comparatively early
stage of the present Period and is best described as 'Sub-Neolithic'. At Votjve
the same time the discovery in the shallow bowl of Figf. lQ.d, of a fragment Depositat
Mochlos.
of copper, perhaps part of a knife, shows that the use of metal was already be- 1 Chalco-
o-innine- The First Early Minoan Period may be described as ' Chalcolithic '. i1!)™:
In addition to heaps of plain pots and cups, usual in the votive deposits of
Minoan Crete, there was here found a red clay object with a horned projection
rising at each end, Fig. 16, c, of quite exceptional interest from the religious
point of view. There is great probability in Mr. Seager's view 2 that we have
■
A
Fig. 16. Pottery from Early Votive Deposit, Mochlos {\).
in this horned obiect the precursor of the 1 1 lorns of Consecration ', generally Sacral
• -i at- Horns
formed of clay with a plaster coating, that mark the later Minoan sane- of Clay.
tuaries.3 In the succeeding Period the miniature votive form of the sacred
Double Axe, their principal cult object, was already in existence. The ritual
elements of Minoan cult can thus be traced back to the borders of the
Neolithic A^e.
Clay ladles with handles of varying lengths—abundant at Knossos among Ladles
the Neolithic forms—are well represented in this deposit (Fig. 1G, a, b) ; these and ups"
E. M. I ladles, however, are of reddish clay often covered with a red wash.
Another Neolithic type, the plain handleless cup of hemispherical form, is
also common (Fig. 16,/), as well as others with a flat bottom (J, k). The
1 Seager, Mochlos, pp. 92, 93, and Fig. 48, Nos. 29-42.
2 Op. at., p. 93. 3 See Vol. II.