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THE PALACE OF MINOS, ETC.

chrome vase, Fig. 199, most nearly equated with the Abydos specimen,
shows the intermediate form, Fig. 200, c.

The evidence supplied by the Egyptian cylinders points to the close of
the nineteenth century b.c., for the date of the imported Cretan vessel found
in the Abydos tomb and the parallel example from Knossos, belonging
it would appear to the earlier part of M. M. II b, may be regarded as of

d

Twelfth
and Early
Thir-
teenth
Dynasty
Associa-
tions.

Fig. 200. Evolution of Flower-Chain Pattern on Vases into Foliate Bands.
{a, M. M. I; 6, c, Mature M. M. II; d, Close of M. M. II; e, M. M. Ill a.)

approximately contemporary fabric, which does not represent quite the latest
phase of M.M. lid.

The great epoch of Kahun carries the chronological limit somewhat
lower. As indicated by the hieratic papyri there discovered, it extends from
the reign of Amenemhat III to those of Ra-sekhem-khu-taui and Sekhem-
ka-ra, the first kings of the Thirteenth Dynasty, or, approximately, from
1849 to 1765 plc. The general trend of the evidence, indeed, leads to the
conclusion that the latest M. M. II phase may be brought down to a date
approaching the close of the Eighteenth Century b.c.