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the two component parts have grown together, but the once separate upper
rim of the stand is still sharply profiled. It is interesting to note,
moreover, that the same coalescence took place in a handleless Egyptian
type from Buhen (Fig. 302 It had been covered with a pinkish slip.

Fig. 301. Pedestalled Poly- Fig. 302 a. Egyptian Alabaster Fig. 302 b. Egyptian
chrome Vase imitated from Vase and Burnished Clay Stand. Clay Vase {Buhen, PI. 48,
Egyptian Alabastron. Twelfth Dynasty. s. xliii).

No specimens of vessels belonging to the 'white-dotted' class 'White-
described above seem to have occurred among the rich deposits of pottery Pottery—
brought to ligfht at Knossos in the Magazines and floor-cists belonging ^J;M-
to the close of the present Period. There is good reason, therefore, for
referring them to a somewhat earlier phase.

But this conclusion is of special interest in view of a further discovery
which stands in inseparable connexion with the actual contents of the

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