Evans, Arthur J.: The Palace of Minos: a comparative account of the successive stages of the early Cretan civilization as illustred by the discoveries at Knossos (Band 1): The Neolithic and Early and Middle Minoan Ages (London, 1921)

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show a light clay-coloured surface, except that a is broadly decorated with a

triple spray of reddish brown. With them were plain barrel-shaped pots Pot with

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with tripod bases,1 one of which contained a grey deposit with fish's tebrae 6
vertebrae—an interesting contribution to our knowledge of the Minoan
dietary. A contemporary intaglio 2 found North of the site shows a fisher-

Fig 403. Group of Vessels from S.W. Basement. (| c.)

man holding a cuttle-fish and a very plump fish, probably the much-esteemed
Cretan ' Skaros'. Fish-bones are easily missed in an excavation, but the

1 Similar pots were found in the N.E.
Magazines. See below, Fig. 414.

2 A sardonyx of the 1 flattened cylinder'
form much in vogue in this Period. See
p. 677, Fig. 497, below.