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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This remarkable relic was found in the Western bay of the great Libation
entrance hall or Upper Grot, about two metres down, on the original floor of ^f3^ ™u
the Cave. It lay at the bottom of a votive or sacrificial deposit consisting Sacrificial
of earth much blackened with carbonized materials, ashes, the bones of oxen, Layer'

Fig. 465. The Psychro Libation Table, restored, (i c.)

swine, and goats, together with the horn of an Agrimi or Cretan wild goat
a foot and half in length. In this deposit, which proved to have a consider-
able extension, were also found quantities of pottery and other relics,
including the votive double-axe blade and the stepped base, executed in
the same black steatite as the Libation Table, which have been illustrated in

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