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)

THE PALACE OF MINOS, ETC.

Further
Recur-
rence of
Trullos
Group on
Palai-
kastro
Table.

unique bears a certain resemblance to the Egyptian festival sign. Of special
interest in connexion with the Mountain cult of Knossos, however, is the

second group §YYZi w^cn corresponds with that presented by the group
of signs 11-14 on the votive stone ladle from Trullos. The first two
characters of this group appear in an inscription, also of the Linear Class A,
incised on a black steatite libation table with a single, rimmed cup and
stepped base found in a cave near Palaikastro.1 Eighteen signs are visible
on the upper surface of this table of which face b, as shown in my copy,

A

Fig. 468. Inscription of Linear Class A on Steatite Libation Table

from Cave, Palaikastro.

Fig- 468, begins with the first two signs of this group ^ Y, though unfor-
tunately the narrow part of the margin which should have contained its
completion is broken away. The Palaikastro cave stands in a near relation
to the later site of the Dictaean Temple of the Cretan Zeus, and it is
interesting to note that a good specimen of a mottled steatite table of similar
type, though apparently uninscribecl, was obtained by me in 1894 from the
Knoll of Tartar! in the striking cleft of Arvi on the South Coast,2 where in

1 U.S.A., xii, p. 2. The remains of the
table were found by Mr. C. T. Currelly. The
cave was later used for L. M. Ill ' larnax'
burials, but the inscribed libation table is
clearly of the same date as that of Psychro

which in turn is equated with those of the
Temple Repository of Knossos (M. M. Ill b).

2 Near Ariano. The libation table is now in
the Ashmolean Museum.