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EARLY MINOAN II
85
Triada, belonging to a much later date,1 should not only be a sistrum—an
instrument of purely Egyptian association—but a sistrum of
a distinctly archaic form.
Amongst other instances of undoubted indebtedness to Egypt Faience
B Geld s
is the occurrence of objects of glazed paste in native 'faience' 2 &c.
Fig. 53. 0f a pa]e bluish green colour, resembling that in use during
Bead tne early dynasties of Egypt. In Tomb VI at Mochlos, in a purely
Mochlos. E. M. II medium, in addition to beads of this material there
came to light a much decayed 'faience' bowl.3 Among the beads, a pear-
shaped form (Fig. 53)4 answers to a common Egyptian type which Prof.
Flinders Petrie ingeniously derives from the cone-shell beads of the
Prehistoric Aoe/'
The earlier wave of influence that reached Crete across the Libyan Sea Fourth to
Sixth
had, as we have seen, carried in its wake elements belonging to the Late Dynasty
Pre-dynastic Period and to a less extent of the two earliest dynasties. Influ~
y, J ences.
To this there now succeeds another wave representative of the middle
phase of the Early Kingdom and including the period from the Fourth to the
Sixth Dynasty.
The Palace site of Knossos has brought forth cumulative evidence both
of the actual import and of the prolonged imitation of a class of shallow bowls,
generally executed in hard materials, and characterized by an angular or
' carinated' contour. Diorite bowls of this kind, of exquisite fabric, were ' Cari~
nated '
found in the tomb of Sneferu (Snofru), c. 2840-2820 b. c. (Fig's. 54 and 55, a), Bowls of
and are a representative product of the Fourth Dynasty. A fragment I)l0rite-
of a typical example in alabaster has also been found in the recently explored
temple of King Sahure G of the Fifth Dynasty, c. 2673-2661 b. c, and though
similar evidence regarding the Sixth Dynasty is not as yet forthcoming, we
may assume that such carinated bowls continued to be executed throughout
the brilliant central phase of the Early Kingdom in Egypt.
Fragments of two shallow bowls in diorite with this distinctive carinated
contour were found on the Palace site at Knossos.7 It will be seen from
1 L. M. I. See Vol. II. 5 The cone-shells themselves, or a variety
2 For the Minoan faience see especially with a higher spire, were reproduced in corne-
p. 486 below. Its fabric continued in Crete Han and lapis lazuli at the time of the Twelfth
from E. M. II to the last Palace Period, Dynasty.
L. M. II. c L. Eorchardt, Grabdenkmal des Sahure,
3 Mochlos, p. 54, vi. 22. Band I, p. 116, Fig. 152. From the temple
i Somewhat enlarged. From a sketch made of the King at Abusir.
by me at Mochlos at the time of the excava- 7 A. J. E., Knossos Report, 1902, p. 122
tion. seqq. (B. S. A., viii).
85
Triada, belonging to a much later date,1 should not only be a sistrum—an
instrument of purely Egyptian association—but a sistrum of
a distinctly archaic form.
Amongst other instances of undoubted indebtedness to Egypt Faience
B Geld s
is the occurrence of objects of glazed paste in native 'faience' 2 &c.
Fig. 53. 0f a pa]e bluish green colour, resembling that in use during
Bead tne early dynasties of Egypt. In Tomb VI at Mochlos, in a purely
Mochlos. E. M. II medium, in addition to beads of this material there
came to light a much decayed 'faience' bowl.3 Among the beads, a pear-
shaped form (Fig. 53)4 answers to a common Egyptian type which Prof.
Flinders Petrie ingeniously derives from the cone-shell beads of the
Prehistoric Aoe/'
The earlier wave of influence that reached Crete across the Libyan Sea Fourth to
Sixth
had, as we have seen, carried in its wake elements belonging to the Late Dynasty
Pre-dynastic Period and to a less extent of the two earliest dynasties. Influ~
y, J ences.
To this there now succeeds another wave representative of the middle
phase of the Early Kingdom and including the period from the Fourth to the
Sixth Dynasty.
The Palace site of Knossos has brought forth cumulative evidence both
of the actual import and of the prolonged imitation of a class of shallow bowls,
generally executed in hard materials, and characterized by an angular or
' carinated' contour. Diorite bowls of this kind, of exquisite fabric, were ' Cari~
nated '
found in the tomb of Sneferu (Snofru), c. 2840-2820 b. c. (Fig's. 54 and 55, a), Bowls of
and are a representative product of the Fourth Dynasty. A fragment I)l0rite-
of a typical example in alabaster has also been found in the recently explored
temple of King Sahure G of the Fifth Dynasty, c. 2673-2661 b. c, and though
similar evidence regarding the Sixth Dynasty is not as yet forthcoming, we
may assume that such carinated bowls continued to be executed throughout
the brilliant central phase of the Early Kingdom in Egypt.
Fragments of two shallow bowls in diorite with this distinctive carinated
contour were found on the Palace site at Knossos.7 It will be seen from
1 L. M. I. See Vol. II. 5 The cone-shells themselves, or a variety
2 For the Minoan faience see especially with a higher spire, were reproduced in corne-
p. 486 below. Its fabric continued in Crete Han and lapis lazuli at the time of the Twelfth
from E. M. II to the last Palace Period, Dynasty.
L. M. II. c L. Eorchardt, Grabdenkmal des Sahure,
3 Mochlos, p. 54, vi. 22. Band I, p. 116, Fig. 152. From the temple
i Somewhat enlarged. From a sketch made of the King at Abusir.
by me at Mochlos at the time of the excava- 7 A. J. E., Knossos Report, 1902, p. 122
tion. seqq. (B. S. A., viii).