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M. M. Ill : LINEAR SCRIPT A AND ITS SACRAL USAGE 625
at Knossos, which I have ventured to identify with a throne and crook or
sceptre, seen in profile. A comparative series of these showing successive
degradations from the original type is given in Fig. 464. The final
degeneration might be
taken for the letters
' Ti ' !
This comparison
may be taken to show
that the hill shrine of
Trullos stood in a
special relation to the
Palace. The
Recurring
Dedica-
tory
Formula.
sign-
group 11-14 is of still
greaterimportance from
the fact that it recurs
totidem litter is in a
prominent position on
the most interesting
of all lYlinoan cult ob-
jects, the black steatite
Libation Table from
the Cave Sanctuary
of Psychro on Mount
Lasithi, a few hours
from the site of
Karnessos.1 as Lyktos
was known to the in-
It is
Fig. 462. Ladle-shaped Vessel of Limestone from Trullos, di„enous st0ck.
with Inscription of Linear Class A &
indeed difficult to doubt
Appear-
ance of
Identical
Sign-
group on
Psychro
that it must be identified with the reputed Birth Cave of the Cretan Zeus Table™
according to the Lyktian tradition preserved by Hesiod.2 The large frag-
ments of the Libation Table, of which a restored representation is given in
Fig. 465, was obtained by me in 1896 3 from the base of the Votive deposit.
1 Kapv^o"0"07roXts.
2 Theogonia, 11. 477 seqq. The cave to which
Rhea is made to speed with the infant Zeus is
placed Aiyata) lv 6'pei (1. 484), a name unknown
to later geographers, but it is also described as
in Dikta, which in historical times was confined
I S S
to the Eastern promontory of the island. The
Psychro Cave was, par excellence, the Mountain
Cave Sanctuary of the Lyktos district.
3 See Further Discoveries of Cretan, <5rv.
Script, J. H. S., xvii, p. 350 seqq.; Myc. Tree and
Pillar Cult, p. 14 seqq. (/.U.S., xxi, p. 112
at Knossos, which I have ventured to identify with a throne and crook or
sceptre, seen in profile. A comparative series of these showing successive
degradations from the original type is given in Fig. 464. The final
degeneration might be
taken for the letters
' Ti ' !
This comparison
may be taken to show
that the hill shrine of
Trullos stood in a
special relation to the
Palace. The
Recurring
Dedica-
tory
Formula.
sign-
group 11-14 is of still
greaterimportance from
the fact that it recurs
totidem litter is in a
prominent position on
the most interesting
of all lYlinoan cult ob-
jects, the black steatite
Libation Table from
the Cave Sanctuary
of Psychro on Mount
Lasithi, a few hours
from the site of
Karnessos.1 as Lyktos
was known to the in-
It is
Fig. 462. Ladle-shaped Vessel of Limestone from Trullos, di„enous st0ck.
with Inscription of Linear Class A &
indeed difficult to doubt
Appear-
ance of
Identical
Sign-
group on
Psychro
that it must be identified with the reputed Birth Cave of the Cretan Zeus Table™
according to the Lyktian tradition preserved by Hesiod.2 The large frag-
ments of the Libation Table, of which a restored representation is given in
Fig. 465, was obtained by me in 1896 3 from the base of the Votive deposit.
1 Kapv^o"0"07roXts.
2 Theogonia, 11. 477 seqq. The cave to which
Rhea is made to speed with the infant Zeus is
placed Aiyata) lv 6'pei (1. 484), a name unknown
to later geographers, but it is also described as
in Dikta, which in historical times was confined
I S S
to the Eastern promontory of the island. The
Psychro Cave was, par excellence, the Mountain
Cave Sanctuary of the Lyktos district.
3 See Further Discoveries of Cretan, <5rv.
Script, J. H. S., xvii, p. 350 seqq.; Myc. Tree and
Pillar Cult, p. 14 seqq. (/.U.S., xxi, p. 112