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§ 24. M. M. Ill : (I) Knossian Faience: The Beads.
Faience
Fabrics
from IVth
Shaft
Grave
identical
with those
of Temple
Reposi-
tories.
Evidence
of Early
Develop-
ment of
Native
Faience
in Crete.
Faience fabrics from IVth Shaft Grave identical with those of Temple
Repositories at Knossos ; Evidences of early development of native faience in
Crete ; Its Egyptian origin ; Moulds found at Knossos ; Analysis of Knossian
faience {Researches of Church and Heatori); Method of manufacture; The
Palace fabric of Knossos ; The faience beads—imitations of Egyptian types •
History of the ' segmented' variety ; Diffusion of faience bead types by Minoau
Commerce ; Occurrence of segmented and other imported forms in S.E. Spain
and British Isles; Chronological bearing on Western Bronze Age ; General
indications of Minoan connexions with West Mediterranean Basin ; Festoons,
apparently of beads and pendants, between Columns of Minoan shrines.
Attention has been called at the end of the last Section to the absolute
correspondence, not only in the form, but in the texture of the material, the
hue and even the details of the decoration visible in the remains of the
faience inlays of the two draught-boards—one from the Western Temple
Repository at Knossos, the other from the Fourth Shaft Grave at Mycenae.
The phenomenon itself has a double value from the archaeological point of
view. Since the identical relics from the Repository were found in associa-
tion with pottery of the M. M. Ill b class, we have a definite clue to the date
of those found in the mainland interment. Both, moreover, were clearly the
products of the same fabric, and the overwhelming balance of the evidence
shows that the place of origin in both cases was a faience factory at
Knossos, in connexion with the Great Palace. Like the ' Sacral Knots' of
the same material displaying the ' Minoan tartan ', found together with the
inlays in the Shaft Grave, the whole group of faience relics there discovered
must be regarded as of Cretan importation.
This exquisite Minoan glazed ware, the most extraordinary revelation
of which was afforded by the group of the Snake Goddess and her votaries
found in the Eastern Repository, brings us face to face with what towards
the close of the Middle Minoan Age maybe regarded as perhaps the highest
technical accomplishment of the indigenous art. This native fabric, not
only of beads but of actual vessels, has been shown to go back to the Second
Early Minoan Period. In the ' proto-Palatial' deposit, again, of M.M.I a date,
Faience
Fabrics
from IVth
Shaft
Grave
identical
with those
of Temple
Reposi-
tories.
Evidence
of Early
Develop-
ment of
Native
Faience
in Crete.
Faience fabrics from IVth Shaft Grave identical with those of Temple
Repositories at Knossos ; Evidences of early development of native faience in
Crete ; Its Egyptian origin ; Moulds found at Knossos ; Analysis of Knossian
faience {Researches of Church and Heatori); Method of manufacture; The
Palace fabric of Knossos ; The faience beads—imitations of Egyptian types •
History of the ' segmented' variety ; Diffusion of faience bead types by Minoau
Commerce ; Occurrence of segmented and other imported forms in S.E. Spain
and British Isles; Chronological bearing on Western Bronze Age ; General
indications of Minoan connexions with West Mediterranean Basin ; Festoons,
apparently of beads and pendants, between Columns of Minoan shrines.
Attention has been called at the end of the last Section to the absolute
correspondence, not only in the form, but in the texture of the material, the
hue and even the details of the decoration visible in the remains of the
faience inlays of the two draught-boards—one from the Western Temple
Repository at Knossos, the other from the Fourth Shaft Grave at Mycenae.
The phenomenon itself has a double value from the archaeological point of
view. Since the identical relics from the Repository were found in associa-
tion with pottery of the M. M. Ill b class, we have a definite clue to the date
of those found in the mainland interment. Both, moreover, were clearly the
products of the same fabric, and the overwhelming balance of the evidence
shows that the place of origin in both cases was a faience factory at
Knossos, in connexion with the Great Palace. Like the ' Sacral Knots' of
the same material displaying the ' Minoan tartan ', found together with the
inlays in the Shaft Grave, the whole group of faience relics there discovered
must be regarded as of Cretan importation.
This exquisite Minoan glazed ware, the most extraordinary revelation
of which was afforded by the group of the Snake Goddess and her votaries
found in the Eastern Repository, brings us face to face with what towards
the close of the Middle Minoan Age maybe regarded as perhaps the highest
technical accomplishment of the indigenous art. This native fabric, not
only of beads but of actual vessels, has been shown to go back to the Second
Early Minoan Period. In the ' proto-Palatial' deposit, again, of M.M.I a date,