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THE PALACE OF MINOS, ETC.
It consists of the remains of a three-cupped altar slab of black steatite,
originally supported on four legs, with a central projecting disk below
17 18 20 *21 22 • 23
Fig. 463. Inscription of Votive Ladle from Trullos, horizontally arranged.
sacred stone or omphalos—in other words the (3aiTv\o?
se, possibly, one of the stalagmitic cones from the
Fig. 464. 'Throne and Sceptre' Sign of Class B and Successive Degenerations.
cavern floor itself. Parts of the inscription, in the Linear Class A, remain
and afforded the first monumental evidence of the developed Cretan script.1
seqq.), where the survival of this 'baetylic'
altar form is shown in that of the later
KOINON KPHTON. See, too, Scripta Minoa, i,
PP- iZ-i-S-
The discovery by shepherds in this cave of
various votive relics, such as human and animal
figures of bronze and clay, miniature bronze
double-axe blades, and other weapons, led
to its preliminary investigation by Prof. F.
Halbherr and Dr. J. Hatzidakis in 1886 {Museo
di Ant. Classica, ii, p. 217 seqq. and PI. XIII).
From 1894 onwards I visited the cave on
repeated occasions and, apart from the result
of my partial excavation of 1896, obtained
from the peasants a considerable series of
objects, now in the Ashmolean Museum. But
the circumstances of the island rendered
methodical excavation impossible till 1900,
when Dr. Hogarth (working for the British
School at Athens and the Cretan Exploration
Fund) removed a vast superincumbent mass of
fallen rocks and carried out a thorough explora-
tion of the remains, not only in the entrance
hall of the cave, but in the deep-lying lower grot
with its stalagmitic pillars and subterranean pool.
(The Dictaean Cave, B. S. A., vi, p. 94 seqq.)
1 See my Further Discoveries of Cretan, &c.
Script, J. H. S., xvii, p. 350 seqq.
THE PALACE OF MINOS, ETC.
It consists of the remains of a three-cupped altar slab of black steatite,
originally supported on four legs, with a central projecting disk below
17 18 20 *21 22 • 23
Fig. 463. Inscription of Votive Ladle from Trullos, horizontally arranged.
sacred stone or omphalos—in other words the (3aiTv\o?
se, possibly, one of the stalagmitic cones from the
Fig. 464. 'Throne and Sceptre' Sign of Class B and Successive Degenerations.
cavern floor itself. Parts of the inscription, in the Linear Class A, remain
and afforded the first monumental evidence of the developed Cretan script.1
seqq.), where the survival of this 'baetylic'
altar form is shown in that of the later
KOINON KPHTON. See, too, Scripta Minoa, i,
PP- iZ-i-S-
The discovery by shepherds in this cave of
various votive relics, such as human and animal
figures of bronze and clay, miniature bronze
double-axe blades, and other weapons, led
to its preliminary investigation by Prof. F.
Halbherr and Dr. J. Hatzidakis in 1886 {Museo
di Ant. Classica, ii, p. 217 seqq. and PI. XIII).
From 1894 onwards I visited the cave on
repeated occasions and, apart from the result
of my partial excavation of 1896, obtained
from the peasants a considerable series of
objects, now in the Ashmolean Museum. But
the circumstances of the island rendered
methodical excavation impossible till 1900,
when Dr. Hogarth (working for the British
School at Athens and the Cretan Exploration
Fund) removed a vast superincumbent mass of
fallen rocks and carried out a thorough explora-
tion of the remains, not only in the entrance
hall of the cave, but in the deep-lying lower grot
with its stalagmitic pillars and subterranean pool.
(The Dictaean Cave, B. S. A., vi, p. 94 seqq.)
1 See my Further Discoveries of Cretan, &c.
Script, J. H. S., xvii, p. 350 seqq.