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THE PALACE OF MINOS, ETC.
Other
contem-
porary
finds of
Seal-im-
pressions
at Knos-
sos.
of deposits and the fuller scenes depicted on the reliefs of the steatite
rhytons—a correspondence of such a kind as to argue contemporaneity in
date. This class of vessel
will be more fully con-
sidered in a later Section
of this work.
Certain other small
hoards or isolated finds of
clay seal-impressions at
Knossos, belonging to de-
posits of approximately the
same date as the Temple
Repository, help to sup-
plement the evidence that
it supplies. Among these
may be mentioned sealings
or fragments of such found
in the Area of the Jewel
Fresco,1 and others which
occurred by the blocked
opening of the ' Corridor of
the Bays ' and which must
be brought into connexion
with the knobbed ritual
vessels found there and with
the Medallion Pithoi of the
adjoining Magazine, all be-
longing to the closing
M. M. 111 phase.2 Another
group of sealings of distinctly early affinities—some of them perhaps slightly
overlapping the bounds of this Period—came to light below the later
'Service Staircase' of the ' Domestic Quarter'.3 Among these was the com-
1 Among these impressions was a standing sealings clearly of a later style and associated
Fig. 501. Votive Bronze Figure from the
Sacrificial Stratum of the Psychro Cave.
figure of a bull, from an intaglio of the ' flat-
tened cylinder' type, a seated bull from a
stone of amygdaloid form, and a fragmentary
sealing showing part of an adorant against a
plait-work background.
2 On the pavement of the Middle E.-AV.
Corridor was also found a scattered deposit of
with clay tablets of the Linear Class B belong-
ing to the last Palace Epoch.
3 See p. 713. In this deposit were found
several designs showing lions seizing bulls
or deer, and others representing grains of corn,
a type of very early tradition.
THE PALACE OF MINOS, ETC.
Other
contem-
porary
finds of
Seal-im-
pressions
at Knos-
sos.
of deposits and the fuller scenes depicted on the reliefs of the steatite
rhytons—a correspondence of such a kind as to argue contemporaneity in
date. This class of vessel
will be more fully con-
sidered in a later Section
of this work.
Certain other small
hoards or isolated finds of
clay seal-impressions at
Knossos, belonging to de-
posits of approximately the
same date as the Temple
Repository, help to sup-
plement the evidence that
it supplies. Among these
may be mentioned sealings
or fragments of such found
in the Area of the Jewel
Fresco,1 and others which
occurred by the blocked
opening of the ' Corridor of
the Bays ' and which must
be brought into connexion
with the knobbed ritual
vessels found there and with
the Medallion Pithoi of the
adjoining Magazine, all be-
longing to the closing
M. M. 111 phase.2 Another
group of sealings of distinctly early affinities—some of them perhaps slightly
overlapping the bounds of this Period—came to light below the later
'Service Staircase' of the ' Domestic Quarter'.3 Among these was the com-
1 Among these impressions was a standing sealings clearly of a later style and associated
Fig. 501. Votive Bronze Figure from the
Sacrificial Stratum of the Psychro Cave.
figure of a bull, from an intaglio of the ' flat-
tened cylinder' type, a seated bull from a
stone of amygdaloid form, and a fragmentary
sealing showing part of an adorant against a
plait-work background.
2 On the pavement of the Middle E.-AV.
Corridor was also found a scattered deposit of
with clay tablets of the Linear Class B belong-
ing to the last Palace Epoch.
3 See p. 713. In this deposit were found
several designs showing lions seizing bulls
or deer, and others representing grains of corn,
a type of very early tradition.