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THE PALACE OF MINOS, ETC.

Fig. 315 above. It is to be observed that the lowest stratum, beneath which
the fragment of the Table lay, contained M. M. Ill painted sherds, some
with plant designs white on dark.

In the immediately adjoining area to the East, explored by Mr. Hogarth
in the course of his methodical excavation of the Cave in 1900, there came to

Fig. 466. Remaining part of Inscribed Libation Table of Black Steatite, (a)

light an altar-like structure of roughly squared stones, about which were
remains of a series of smaller libation vessels, the earlier also of black
steatite and with single cups surrounded by a raised rim, exactly resem-
bling those of the Temple Repository. One of these presents three
linear signs.1

1 Hogarth, op. at., p. 114, Fig. 50. Two of the characters are of abnormal form.