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THE PALACE OF MINOS, ETC.
Magazine
of the
False-
spouted
Store-
jars.
Their
Evolution
from
Smaller
Jugs.
conflagration had here preceded the filling in. The more Western of
these Magazines formed an elongated compartment along which the gypsum
pavement was continued. This compartment contained two or three small
vessels ; the more roomy Magazine on the left, however, had three fine jars
ranged against its S. wall, and in front of these, together with other smaller
vessels an elegant one-handled jug. This vase, which was 43 centimetres in
height, showed besides its white bands some traces of flowers and foliage on
its purplish brown ground.
The large jars themselves, which repeat the same colour scheme, in two
cases presented the peculiarity, very characteristic of this epoch, of showing
a false or atrophied spout, that to the right in Fig. 426 a mere knob. In
other words, these jars bear in their conformation the evidence that they were
originally derived from mere handled jugs with a spout for pouring and
Fig. 426. Rims of Jars, showing Atrophied or False Spouts,
easily raised by the hand. They have been heightened and enlarged
and provided with a stout collar like those of the early pithoi, and the spout
has been either blocked or reduced to a mere rudimentary excrescence.1
This conversion of small portable jugs into jars which were intended as fix-
tures for storage itself affords an interesting commentary on the gradual
recovery that succeeded on the great catastrophe at the close of M. M. II,
and which seems to have marked the earlier course of the present Period.
Pithoi of the old capacious type had mostly disappeared. Only gradually,
Sympto- pari passu with the increase in wealth in such commodities as oil, did a new
improved class of store-jar evolve itself out of humbler vessels. This is not, indeed,
C.0?1- to say that among the Minoan lords a more direct tradition did not survive
ditions. .
of the earlier corded pithoi. The evidence of this is supplied by the
' Medallion pithoi'.
The finest of the jars discovered in the above Magazine, which was
i-10 metre in height, is reproduced in Fig. 427 a. It shows the atrophied
1 In the case of the ' lily jars', described knob or raised disk in place of the spout of
below, and others of the class, we see a mere the prototype.
THE PALACE OF MINOS, ETC.
Magazine
of the
False-
spouted
Store-
jars.
Their
Evolution
from
Smaller
Jugs.
conflagration had here preceded the filling in. The more Western of
these Magazines formed an elongated compartment along which the gypsum
pavement was continued. This compartment contained two or three small
vessels ; the more roomy Magazine on the left, however, had three fine jars
ranged against its S. wall, and in front of these, together with other smaller
vessels an elegant one-handled jug. This vase, which was 43 centimetres in
height, showed besides its white bands some traces of flowers and foliage on
its purplish brown ground.
The large jars themselves, which repeat the same colour scheme, in two
cases presented the peculiarity, very characteristic of this epoch, of showing
a false or atrophied spout, that to the right in Fig. 426 a mere knob. In
other words, these jars bear in their conformation the evidence that they were
originally derived from mere handled jugs with a spout for pouring and
Fig. 426. Rims of Jars, showing Atrophied or False Spouts,
easily raised by the hand. They have been heightened and enlarged
and provided with a stout collar like those of the early pithoi, and the spout
has been either blocked or reduced to a mere rudimentary excrescence.1
This conversion of small portable jugs into jars which were intended as fix-
tures for storage itself affords an interesting commentary on the gradual
recovery that succeeded on the great catastrophe at the close of M. M. II,
and which seems to have marked the earlier course of the present Period.
Pithoi of the old capacious type had mostly disappeared. Only gradually,
Sympto- pari passu with the increase in wealth in such commodities as oil, did a new
improved class of store-jar evolve itself out of humbler vessels. This is not, indeed,
C.0?1- to say that among the Minoan lords a more direct tradition did not survive
ditions. .
of the earlier corded pithoi. The evidence of this is supplied by the
' Medallion pithoi'.
The finest of the jars discovered in the above Magazine, which was
i-10 metre in height, is reproduced in Fig. 427 a. It shows the atrophied
1 In the case of the ' lily jars', described knob or raised disk in place of the spout of
below, and others of the class, we see a mere the prototype.