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THE PALACE OF MINOS, ETC.
Censers
or
Chafing-
pans.
Pottery
Stores
of N.E.
Maga-
zines.
kind of form of ordinary domestic use. Apart from the fact that they were
thus connected above as well as below, they recall the proto-Egyptian
double vases, especially the goblets on a common base,1 which had certainly
a religious destination. Like the pipkins and the pans to be described
below, they were covered with perforated conical lids.
The most remarkable of the vessels found in this deposit, however,
were the single pans of the same form as the last, and provided with similar
perforated lids but with a double interior. Within the outer wall of these
vessels, as is well shown by Fig. 412, 2nd row, and separated from it by a
narrow interspace, is a second recipient, sometimes rising only half-way to the
level of the outer rim. This inner receptacle has perforations both on its sides
and base, and in many but not in all cases there were also borings opposite
these in the outer walls. These perforations, repeated in the lid which in
some cases was blackened, show that the inner pan was devised for the
combustion of some material. Whether, however, the vessels were intended
to be simple chafing-pans or for the burning of incense it is difficult to
decide. For either purpose, the interspace between the outer and inner
walls may have been intended to keep the exterior of the pan at a tempera-
ture not too high for them to be conveniently grasped by the hands.
We have here a parallel form to a class of clay ' fire-boxes ' which, under
variant shapes, can be traced back in Crete to the beginning of the Middle
Minoan Age.2 Their principal feature is a perforated cavity rising to a boss
above, and with an orifice at its base (or sometimes at the side) through
which the burning charcoal was introduced and which was afterwards
plugged.
The North-East Magazines.
The same process of deliberate filling in at the close of the Middle
Minoan Age of which we have evidence in the Royal Magazines was carried
out in the area immediately North that included the North-East Hall
and adjoining Magazines.
1 he North-East Magazines contained a plentiful store of the ordinary
pottery of this Period, and their contents differ in character from those of
1 e. g. Petrie, Naqada and Ballets, PI. XXIX,
So, 84, 86.
their bases, was found at Phaestos among the
later elements of the Palace (note made on
the spot). These examples seem to be the
ancestors of a L. M. Ill type of double pan
found in Crete (one obtained by me from
2 A plain specimen, unfortunately broken
round the rim, was found inside a polychrome
M. M. I a jar under the floor of the Third
Kedria, near Girapetra; in Candia Museum; Magazine at Knossos (Knossos, Report, 1900,
cf. too Gournia, PI. X, 6). p. 21).
THE PALACE OF MINOS, ETC.
Censers
or
Chafing-
pans.
Pottery
Stores
of N.E.
Maga-
zines.
kind of form of ordinary domestic use. Apart from the fact that they were
thus connected above as well as below, they recall the proto-Egyptian
double vases, especially the goblets on a common base,1 which had certainly
a religious destination. Like the pipkins and the pans to be described
below, they were covered with perforated conical lids.
The most remarkable of the vessels found in this deposit, however,
were the single pans of the same form as the last, and provided with similar
perforated lids but with a double interior. Within the outer wall of these
vessels, as is well shown by Fig. 412, 2nd row, and separated from it by a
narrow interspace, is a second recipient, sometimes rising only half-way to the
level of the outer rim. This inner receptacle has perforations both on its sides
and base, and in many but not in all cases there were also borings opposite
these in the outer walls. These perforations, repeated in the lid which in
some cases was blackened, show that the inner pan was devised for the
combustion of some material. Whether, however, the vessels were intended
to be simple chafing-pans or for the burning of incense it is difficult to
decide. For either purpose, the interspace between the outer and inner
walls may have been intended to keep the exterior of the pan at a tempera-
ture not too high for them to be conveniently grasped by the hands.
We have here a parallel form to a class of clay ' fire-boxes ' which, under
variant shapes, can be traced back in Crete to the beginning of the Middle
Minoan Age.2 Their principal feature is a perforated cavity rising to a boss
above, and with an orifice at its base (or sometimes at the side) through
which the burning charcoal was introduced and which was afterwards
plugged.
The North-East Magazines.
The same process of deliberate filling in at the close of the Middle
Minoan Age of which we have evidence in the Royal Magazines was carried
out in the area immediately North that included the North-East Hall
and adjoining Magazines.
1 he North-East Magazines contained a plentiful store of the ordinary
pottery of this Period, and their contents differ in character from those of
1 e. g. Petrie, Naqada and Ballets, PI. XXIX,
So, 84, 86.
their bases, was found at Phaestos among the
later elements of the Palace (note made on
the spot). These examples seem to be the
ancestors of a L. M. Ill type of double pan
found in Crete (one obtained by me from
2 A plain specimen, unfortunately broken
round the rim, was found inside a polychrome
M. M. I a jar under the floor of the Third
Kedria, near Girapetra; in Candia Museum; Magazine at Knossos (Knossos, Report, 1900,
cf. too Gournia, PI. X, 6). p. 21).