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§ 14- M. M. II : (F) Egyptian Monument and Relations.
Diorite Egyptian Monument of User found in Palace—Tzvelfth
or early Thirteenth Dynasty date; Connected with Nome of Goddess
Wazet (Aphroditopolite) ; Minoan intercourse with- Egypt, uninterrupted
to c. 1760—approximate date of close of M. M. II; Cretan crafts-
men employed for Pyramids of Illahun and Hawara ; Egyptian religious
infltience on Crete; Sea-communications—discovery of submerged pre-Hel-
lenic port of Isle of Pharos ; Colossal construction of harbour works ; Esti-
mate of Minoan and Egyptian factors in their execution ; Port of Pharos
visited by Menelaos ; Question of Minoan ports of Crete; Considerable sub-
mergence 011 N. Coast; Ancient harbour and port town of Knossos—includes
Venetian port of Candia ; Island of Dia ; Minoan port of Hagia Pclagia ;
Catastrophe at end of M. M. II synchronous with break-up of Egyptian
unity ; Perhaps symptomatic of wider movements in E. Mediterranean Basin.
Chrono- As noted above, the fine polychrome ware of the developed M. M. II
Equa^ style if) derives a special importance from the chronological equations
dons with supplied by the discovery of similar pottery in Egyptian deposits of
Dyn. approximately ascertained elate, belonging to the latter part of the
byPEgyp- Twelfth Dynasty or the beginning of the Thirteenth.
tian Finds But the synchronisms thus established find a remarkable corrobora-
ofM.M.II _ .: 1 • 1 t» 1 c t7 1r t 1
Pottery, tion irom a discovery made in the ralace 01 Knossos itself, in the
Diorite North-West area of the Central Court, near the Antechamber of the
Monu- later ' Room of the Throne there was brought to light the lower part
found in °^ a seatec^ Egyptian figure of diorite of a late Middle Kingdom style and
Palace. with hieroglyphic inscriptions on three sides of its base. The monument
was found about 70 centimetres below the surface of the Court, at a point where
the later limestone slabbing had been removed. As it lay clearly below the
earliest Late Minoan level, it was from the first evident that the date of its
deposit fell within the limits of the Middle Minoan Age. In neighbouring
parts of the West Quarter of the Palace a well-marked M. M. Ill deposit
occupied this position,1 but as a matter of fact the Monument occurred In
association with painted fragments of the M. M. II b polychrome style.2
1 It was owing to this that in my Essai de 2 These fragments were vaguely referred to
Classification, cScc., 1906, p. 9, the Monument in my 1900 Report (p. 27) as ' Kamares', in
was erroneously assigned to the M. M. Ill accordance with the nomenclature then in
Period. vogue.
Diorite Egyptian Monument of User found in Palace—Tzvelfth
or early Thirteenth Dynasty date; Connected with Nome of Goddess
Wazet (Aphroditopolite) ; Minoan intercourse with- Egypt, uninterrupted
to c. 1760—approximate date of close of M. M. II; Cretan crafts-
men employed for Pyramids of Illahun and Hawara ; Egyptian religious
infltience on Crete; Sea-communications—discovery of submerged pre-Hel-
lenic port of Isle of Pharos ; Colossal construction of harbour works ; Esti-
mate of Minoan and Egyptian factors in their execution ; Port of Pharos
visited by Menelaos ; Question of Minoan ports of Crete; Considerable sub-
mergence 011 N. Coast; Ancient harbour and port town of Knossos—includes
Venetian port of Candia ; Island of Dia ; Minoan port of Hagia Pclagia ;
Catastrophe at end of M. M. II synchronous with break-up of Egyptian
unity ; Perhaps symptomatic of wider movements in E. Mediterranean Basin.
Chrono- As noted above, the fine polychrome ware of the developed M. M. II
Equa^ style if) derives a special importance from the chronological equations
dons with supplied by the discovery of similar pottery in Egyptian deposits of
Dyn. approximately ascertained elate, belonging to the latter part of the
byPEgyp- Twelfth Dynasty or the beginning of the Thirteenth.
tian Finds But the synchronisms thus established find a remarkable corrobora-
ofM.M.II _ .: 1 • 1 t» 1 c t7 1r t 1
Pottery, tion irom a discovery made in the ralace 01 Knossos itself, in the
Diorite North-West area of the Central Court, near the Antechamber of the
Monu- later ' Room of the Throne there was brought to light the lower part
found in °^ a seatec^ Egyptian figure of diorite of a late Middle Kingdom style and
Palace. with hieroglyphic inscriptions on three sides of its base. The monument
was found about 70 centimetres below the surface of the Court, at a point where
the later limestone slabbing had been removed. As it lay clearly below the
earliest Late Minoan level, it was from the first evident that the date of its
deposit fell within the limits of the Middle Minoan Age. In neighbouring
parts of the West Quarter of the Palace a well-marked M. M. Ill deposit
occupied this position,1 but as a matter of fact the Monument occurred In
association with painted fragments of the M. M. II b polychrome style.2
1 It was owing to this that in my Essai de 2 These fragments were vaguely referred to
Classification, cScc., 1906, p. 9, the Monument in my 1900 Report (p. 27) as ' Kamares', in
was erroneously assigned to the M. M. Ill accordance with the nomenclature then in
Period. vogue.