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THE PALACE OF MINOS, ETC.
590
early M. M. Ill fabric, the clay surface of which is tinted with a red wash,
is seen in Fig. 434, b. This cup was found with a nest of others of similar
form fabric on a M.M. Ill floor of a house to the North-West of the Palace.
Fig. 434. a, Cup, showing Spiral Fluting ; b, Base of Cup with String Marks. ({
Spiral fluting both inside and out was produced in the case of these
cups by the pressure of a slender finger-tip winding upwards from the bottom,
accompanied by counter-pressure on the exterior (Fig. 4.34, a). Signs of the
quick wheel are very generally present on all but the largest vessels of this
Period.
however, that these markings are not infrequent
on the later class of M. M. II ware. Several
instances occurred, for instance, on the base
of vessels from the Late M. M. II floor of the
Area of the Loom-Weights. The procedure
is well known to modern potters from Japan
to Britain. Monsieur M. L. Franchet (who
systematically ignores previous researches)
makes the same observation with regard to
these elliptical striations {Rapport sur une
Mission en Crete et en Egypte, p. 39 ; Nouv.
Arch, des Missions scientijiques, xxii (1917).
The suggestion made in Boyd Hawes,
Gournia, p. 42, PI. VIII, 32, 33, that certain
stone disks were potters' tables, but there left
open, is made his own by M. Franchet {pp. cit.
p. 43 seqq., and cf. Pis. I and II) and sup-
ported by fresh specimens from Crete as well
as by Hindu and other analogies. These
stone disks are often roughened below, and
show traces of the cement by which they were
probably attached to wooden supports. Their
weight gave momentum to the rotatory move-
ment. The specimen (Knossos, '72'), how-
ever, is in fact part of a tripod stand, for the
legs of which triple pairs of rivet holes are seen
below. A clay example from Tylissos is given
by Dr. J. Hatzidakis, 'Ap^. 'Ec£., 19 12, pp. 230,
231, and Fig. 39 (below). These disks seem
to be mostly Late Minoan. For useful com-
parative material on this and other ques-
tions connected with the primitive potter's
craft see Franchet, Ce'ramique primitive,
Paris, 19H.
590
early M. M. Ill fabric, the clay surface of which is tinted with a red wash,
is seen in Fig. 434, b. This cup was found with a nest of others of similar
form fabric on a M.M. Ill floor of a house to the North-West of the Palace.
Fig. 434. a, Cup, showing Spiral Fluting ; b, Base of Cup with String Marks. ({
Spiral fluting both inside and out was produced in the case of these
cups by the pressure of a slender finger-tip winding upwards from the bottom,
accompanied by counter-pressure on the exterior (Fig. 4.34, a). Signs of the
quick wheel are very generally present on all but the largest vessels of this
Period.
however, that these markings are not infrequent
on the later class of M. M. II ware. Several
instances occurred, for instance, on the base
of vessels from the Late M. M. II floor of the
Area of the Loom-Weights. The procedure
is well known to modern potters from Japan
to Britain. Monsieur M. L. Franchet (who
systematically ignores previous researches)
makes the same observation with regard to
these elliptical striations {Rapport sur une
Mission en Crete et en Egypte, p. 39 ; Nouv.
Arch, des Missions scientijiques, xxii (1917).
The suggestion made in Boyd Hawes,
Gournia, p. 42, PI. VIII, 32, 33, that certain
stone disks were potters' tables, but there left
open, is made his own by M. Franchet {pp. cit.
p. 43 seqq., and cf. Pis. I and II) and sup-
ported by fresh specimens from Crete as well
as by Hindu and other analogies. These
stone disks are often roughened below, and
show traces of the cement by which they were
probably attached to wooden supports. Their
weight gave momentum to the rotatory move-
ment. The specimen (Knossos, '72'), how-
ever, is in fact part of a tripod stand, for the
legs of which triple pairs of rivet holes are seen
below. A clay example from Tylissos is given
by Dr. J. Hatzidakis, 'Ap^. 'Ec£., 19 12, pp. 230,
231, and Fig. 39 (below). These disks seem
to be mostly Late Minoan. For useful com-
parative material on this and other ques-
tions connected with the primitive potter's
craft see Franchet, Ce'ramique primitive,
Paris, 19H.