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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THE PALACE OF MINOS, ETC.

succeeding" Section.1 The fine jar, Fig. 430, which stood on the same floor
with them must therefore also be considered as somewhat earlier than the
fabrics of the various Magazines above described, which were covered in
at the close of this Period. The profile of the rim is very characteristic of
M. M. Ill jars, and it will be seen from its associations that the vessel
belongs to the earlier part of this Period.

The high build of the inscribed cups (Fig. 431, a and b) is in fact conclusive
in this respect, the contour of a, indeed, recalling cups of the latest M. M. II

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Fig. 431. M. M. Ill a Cups with Ink-written Inscriptions (-|).

m. m. in phase. The gradual modification of the contour was well illustrated by the
a and b resu^s of supplementary excavations made in 1913 beneath the pavement of
the ' Room of the Stone Pier' as well as in the adjoining area by a blind
well. Two distinct strata were there brought to light separated by a floor
of white beaten clay.2 In the lower of these, answering to the M. M. Ill a
stage, were plain clay cups with the typical profiles shown in Fig. 432, a, a, ar
In the upper layer extending to 70 centimetres beneath the pavement
the cups were decidedly lower and broader in their proportions (Fig. 432 b^b)^
closely approaching indeed the L. M. I Class.

1 See Fig. 431 a, b, and below, p. 613 seqq., their greater diameter 9-3 to 8 cm. .

Figs. 450-2. 2 See above, p. 366, note 2. 4 The height of the cups (b, b) was from

3 The height of the cups of the earlier 5-5 to 4-5 cm., their greatest breadth 11-5 to

stratum (a, a, a) varied from about 6-5 to 5-8 cm,, 10 cm.