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M. M. Ill : THE PALACE POTTERY STORES
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of the common hanclle-less class,1 plainly connect themselves with drinkables,
while the three-legged pipkins with perforated covers would stand in a culinary
connexion. The small ewers with the raised ring's or collars where the neck
joins the body, and the teat-like knobs that decorate their walls and handles
betray the influence of metallic models.2 The
knobs are evidently a decorative imitation of rivet
heads, while in metal vases of kindred forms the
joint of the separate plates that compose the neck
and body is often masked by a raised ring. On
a faience libation vessel of the last Palace Period
both the neck-ring and the studs round the shoulders
—in that case, however, more slightly bossed—are
similarly taken over from an original in metalwork.3
The insistence on this feature with the teat-
like form of the knobs, however, on the present
series suggests the question whether, in whatever
way they originated, they may not have had some
religious association in connexion with the Mother
Goddess. The best parallel, indeed, is afforded
by a later clay image (Fig. 413), certainly represent-
ing a noXvfiacrTos form of divinity recalling the
Ephesian Artemis, found in the pillar-room of an
early house at Hagia Triada.4
The archaic features visible in these ewers,
as well as their unique character, are themselves
a reason for suspecting that they may have had a ritual destination. The
survival of a Middle Minoan tradition is further brought out by the raised
decoration of one of the vessels 5 which is reminiscent of the barbotine
style. The presumption of a religious usage, moreover, is borne out by
some of the associated forms. The double pots set at the two ends of
a flat base,6 and with their upper rims again connected, do not suggest any
Decora-
tion.
Com-
parison
with
many-
breasted
Figure.
Fig. 413. Clay Figure
of Female Divinity of
Many - breasted Type.
H. Triada (i c).
Probable
Ritual
Use of
Pots.
1 These present the sharp-cut base charac-
teristic of cups of this type belonging to the
transitional M. M. III-L. M. I epoch.
- There seems to be here no direct relation-
ship to the ' knobbed' decoration of the
M. M. I—II pithoi, though knobs in a modified
shape appear on some smaller vessels of the
early part of the Middle Minoan Age.
3 See Vol. II. The raised ring round
the neck is also frequent, for the same
reason, on composite stone vases, e.g. p. 412,
Fig. 296.
4 Paribeni, Mon. Ant., xiv, p. 725, Fig. 24.
The house had been later used as a tomb, and
the image itself is certainly of L. M. Ill date.
5 The seventh in order in Fig. 412.
0 The flat base of a similar object, with the
two pans above it broken off and showing only
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of the common hanclle-less class,1 plainly connect themselves with drinkables,
while the three-legged pipkins with perforated covers would stand in a culinary
connexion. The small ewers with the raised ring's or collars where the neck
joins the body, and the teat-like knobs that decorate their walls and handles
betray the influence of metallic models.2 The
knobs are evidently a decorative imitation of rivet
heads, while in metal vases of kindred forms the
joint of the separate plates that compose the neck
and body is often masked by a raised ring. On
a faience libation vessel of the last Palace Period
both the neck-ring and the studs round the shoulders
—in that case, however, more slightly bossed—are
similarly taken over from an original in metalwork.3
The insistence on this feature with the teat-
like form of the knobs, however, on the present
series suggests the question whether, in whatever
way they originated, they may not have had some
religious association in connexion with the Mother
Goddess. The best parallel, indeed, is afforded
by a later clay image (Fig. 413), certainly represent-
ing a noXvfiacrTos form of divinity recalling the
Ephesian Artemis, found in the pillar-room of an
early house at Hagia Triada.4
The archaic features visible in these ewers,
as well as their unique character, are themselves
a reason for suspecting that they may have had a ritual destination. The
survival of a Middle Minoan tradition is further brought out by the raised
decoration of one of the vessels 5 which is reminiscent of the barbotine
style. The presumption of a religious usage, moreover, is borne out by
some of the associated forms. The double pots set at the two ends of
a flat base,6 and with their upper rims again connected, do not suggest any
Decora-
tion.
Com-
parison
with
many-
breasted
Figure.
Fig. 413. Clay Figure
of Female Divinity of
Many - breasted Type.
H. Triada (i c).
Probable
Ritual
Use of
Pots.
1 These present the sharp-cut base charac-
teristic of cups of this type belonging to the
transitional M. M. III-L. M. I epoch.
- There seems to be here no direct relation-
ship to the ' knobbed' decoration of the
M. M. I—II pithoi, though knobs in a modified
shape appear on some smaller vessels of the
early part of the Middle Minoan Age.
3 See Vol. II. The raised ring round
the neck is also frequent, for the same
reason, on composite stone vases, e.g. p. 412,
Fig. 296.
4 Paribeni, Mon. Ant., xiv, p. 725, Fig. 24.
The house had been later used as a tomb, and
the image itself is certainly of L. M. Ill date.
5 The seventh in order in Fig. 412.
0 The flat base of a similar object, with the
two pans above it broken off and showing only