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)

M. M. I: CERAMIC PHASES

the floor of the First Magazine'.1 The surface of these shows a survival of
the red and black 'mottled' technique of the preceding Age, but the tenuity of
fabric, already noted in some of its wares, is here even surpassed, at least as
regards the average thickness of the walls, which does not exceed a single
millimetre.

The Minoan egg-shell ware, of which such brilliant polychrome examples
are forthcoming during the early part of the succeeding M. M. II Period,



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Fig. 120. Objects in Various Materials from 'Vat Room' Deposit (M.M.I).

had in fact already attained its nc plus ultra of fineness at Knossos by the
very opening of the Middle Minoan Age. In sympathy with this, moreover,
as is shown by the remains of a vase of marble-like material which also
occurred in the Vat Room Deposit (Fig. 120), a similar tenuity of fabric was

1 Knossos, Report, 1901 {B. S. A., yii), p. 48; native formatore was quite unable to piece
These ' tumblers ' were found in a much broken them together,
condition and so thin were their walls that our