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M.M. Ill: THE SNAKE GODDESS AND RELICS 497
the floor, was also possibly due to the presence of animal matter. The
burnt corn also found in some abundance may have also had an offertory
character.
In the same stratum of this Repository there came to light a series of Libation
steatite Libation Tables (see Fig. 355, upper row). These receptacles, which Tables'
taper gradually to a small base below, show on their square upper face
a shallow cup-like hollow with a raised rim. They exactly resemble the
Libation Tables with a single cup found in the votive deposit of the
Dictaean Cave.1 This type represents a simpler variety of that with three
receptacles, exhibiting the early linear inscription, found beneath the same
Fig. 355. Libation Tables of Steatite and other materials ; W. Repository.
Cave deposit. A good example of one of these is seen in the centre of the group
in Fig. 377.2 Together with these typical forms of libation vessels there
occurred a series of more or less cylindrical objects, the material of which
seemed to be identical with the gritty paste that forms the core of the
faience ware. These were hollowed out above into shallow basins showing
that they had also served for libations.
As already noted, the actual cult objects and fittings of the Shrine had
been mostly swept into the Eastern Repository. The relics there found
included a wholly unique collection of objets dart, executed with extra-
ordinary skill in this indigenous kind of porcelain, the fabric, but not the
1 A similar steatite libation table was Others occurred at Palaikastro and elsewhere,
obtained by me from a sanctuary at Arvi, on 2 This libation vessel appears in the figure
the S.E. coast of Crete (/. H. S., xvii, p. 357). in a somewhat disproportionate scale.
I K k
Faience
Relics
from E.
Reposi-
tory.
the floor, was also possibly due to the presence of animal matter. The
burnt corn also found in some abundance may have also had an offertory
character.
In the same stratum of this Repository there came to light a series of Libation
steatite Libation Tables (see Fig. 355, upper row). These receptacles, which Tables'
taper gradually to a small base below, show on their square upper face
a shallow cup-like hollow with a raised rim. They exactly resemble the
Libation Tables with a single cup found in the votive deposit of the
Dictaean Cave.1 This type represents a simpler variety of that with three
receptacles, exhibiting the early linear inscription, found beneath the same
Fig. 355. Libation Tables of Steatite and other materials ; W. Repository.
Cave deposit. A good example of one of these is seen in the centre of the group
in Fig. 377.2 Together with these typical forms of libation vessels there
occurred a series of more or less cylindrical objects, the material of which
seemed to be identical with the gritty paste that forms the core of the
faience ware. These were hollowed out above into shallow basins showing
that they had also served for libations.
As already noted, the actual cult objects and fittings of the Shrine had
been mostly swept into the Eastern Repository. The relics there found
included a wholly unique collection of objets dart, executed with extra-
ordinary skill in this indigenous kind of porcelain, the fabric, but not the
1 A similar steatite libation table was Others occurred at Palaikastro and elsewhere,
obtained by me from a sanctuary at Arvi, on 2 This libation vessel appears in the figure
the S.E. coast of Crete (/. H. S., xvii, p. 357). in a somewhat disproportionate scale.
I K k
Faience
Relics
from E.
Reposi-
tory.