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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Magazine of the Lily Jars.

Magazine The little Magazine or closet, which proved to contain pottery of great

Lily Jars, interest, was enclosed on its Western and Northern side by a clay partition,
only 12 centimetres (or 4^ inches) thick and faced on both sides with red
plaster.1 The general arrangement of the pottery in this little store closet

Fig. 422. M. M. Ill Candlestick from Magazine of Lily Vases (\c).

appears in the Plan, Fig. 419, and a view of it as first brought to light is shown
in Fig. 420. At the further end were piles of jars with a beautiful decoration
of clumps of lilies, white on the lilac brown glaze ground (Fig. 421, 7, 10),
specimens of which are more fully illustrated in Fig. 444 below. About the

Fig. 423 a. Egyptian Clay Candlestick, Fig. 423 b. Early Minoan Candle-
Fourth Dynasty (Ashmolean Museum) (-^). stick, Siva near Phaestos.

middle of the closet stood a large full-bellied jar with two handles to
its rim and two smaller on its shoulders, the dark brown glaze medium
of which was decorated by broad white spiral bands recalling those of the
pitchers so abundantly represented in the Temple Repositories.

1 1 cm. thick.