4H

THE PALACE OF MINOS, ETC.

Imitated
in painted
clay ;
White-
dotted
Ware.

marked as belonging to the earlier M. M. Ill phase.1 A good illustrative
fragment from the circular walled rubbish pit or ' Kouloura ' beneath the
later West Court Pavement is given in Fig. 298, c, and beside it a sketch of
the most complete vessel of this class which was found in a deposit W. of the
Palace (Fig. 298, b).2 In these cases both the flat collar of the original and
the white-dotted zone of the body, here with a black ground, are clearly

reproduced. The upright set of the
handles is also characteristic, and the
flat, relatively broad rim is covered with
a white wash. Beneath it, too, are the
triple grooves. A good example of an
inlaid stone vessel of this class from
Isopata, near Knossos,3 with the shell
inlays well preserved, is shown beside
these in Fig. 298, a.

The vessels with which the bowl,
Fig. 297, was associated form valuable

Fig. 299 a. Small Jug with Moulded
Barley-Ears. (•§-)

Fig. 299 b. Barley Spray on Similar
Vessel.

links of connexion with a whole ceramic class belonging to the same earlier
M.M. Ill phase. They are distinguished by their black glazed bodies
sprinkled with white dots, which in this case may be a reflexion of shell
inlays like those of Figs. 297, 298 a. The dark ground of most of these
vases is itself an early characteristic, the M. M. Ill b pottery having generally
a paler, lilac ground.

1 Pieces occurred in the M.M. Ilia stratum Pottery in Crete (J. H. S., xxi), p.88, Fig. 14.
of the ' Room of the Stone Pier'. 3 See The Tomb of the Double Axes

2 Hogarth and "Welch, Primitive Painted (Archaeologia, lxv), p. 3 and Fig. 1.