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occurrence close to it of a triton-shell,1 a usual concomitant of these
sanctuaries. Such conch-shells were in fact used as trumpets in Minoan cult
for calling down the divinity to altars of offering-, as is shown on a crystal
lentoid already illustrated which was found in the Idaean Cave. In the S.E.
angle of this chamber were found a steatite 'pyxis', a cup, with dull

Fig. 425. View of Entrance to 'Magazine of False-spouted Jars',

showing Clay Partition.

red spirals on a pale buff ground, and other small vessels, but the objects of
worship had been removed.

Magazine of the False-spouted Jars,

This lobby led on the left to two inner store-rooms divided by a clay
and plaster partition like that described in the case of the ' Magazine of the
Lily Jars '.2 The clay core of this was in places cooked red, showing that a

1 In Knossos, Report, 1902, p. 82, the conch- large jars. The sanctuary character of the
shell and pyxis are erroneously described as lobby was also missed,
having been found in the Magazine with the 2 See above, p. 576, Fig. 420.