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similar coils. This design, indeed, may be taken to indicate that ceiling
patterns representing the Orchomenos type in a somewhat more primitive
form already existed in what may have been an earlier Palace of M. M. I a
date.

Conclu- The sequence in which the present Period stands to the last Early

sions c\.s

toChrono- Minoan would carry its beginnings well up into the Eleventh Dynasty, or to

logical

Limits of
M. M. I.

Fig. 151. Clay Sealing from M. M. I a Deposit, Knossos. (c.

c. 2100 b. c. On the other hand, the appearance of the scarab type of seal-
stone, particularly of that shown in Fig. 147 above, which is executed in hard
stone, points to a time when Twelfth Dynasty influence was already beginning
to make itself felt. We may conclude that the mature style of M. M. I a
already somewhat overlapped the Twelfth Dynasty of Egypt w^hich begins
about 20CO b.c. The latest phase of this Period may extend to about
1900 b.c, shortly after which date, as wre shall see, imported M. M. II a
pottery begins to appear at Kahun.