Evans, Arthur J.: The Palace of Minos: a comparative account of the successive stages of the early Cretan civilization as illustred by the discoveries at Knossos (Band 1): The Neolithic and Early and Middle Minoan Ages (London, 1921)

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however, spouts show a general tendency to abbreviation, the open channel,
too, becomes more truncated, and, pari passu with this, the tubular part

Fig. 76. E. M. Ill Ware from Mochlos, &c.

of the spout becomes shorter. By the beginning of the first Middle Minoan
Period this tubular section shows a tendency to disappear entirely 1 and
the abbreviated open part of the spout is simply bridged over by the rim

1 One from Mochlos {op. cit., Fig. 50, 92) with
hatched incisions on its shoulders is regarded
bySeager as transitional. E. M. Ill to M. M. I.
A type of vessel with side-handles (derived from
the early perforated ledge-handles of E. M. I)
is still found in the early part of M. M. I which
shows the survival of a similar type of spout

(cf. p. 144, Fig. 105, below). A similar vase is
illustrated by Miss E. H. Hall {Excavations in
Eastern Crete: Sphoungaras, p. 55, Fig. 28,/and
cp. p. 56. Owing to the fact that it presented
' traces of circles of red paint' she assigns it to
M. M. I, but adds ' on other grounds it might
well be called Early Minoan II '.