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PREFACE xiii
Antiquities, who has always placed his own information and the resources of
the Candia Museum at my disposal in the most obliging way.
To my French colleagues, Monsieur J. Charbonneux and, after him,
Monsieur F. Chapouthier, I am in a special way indebted for the friendly
permission to study on the spot their epoch-making discoveries in the early
Palace of Mallia about which I have been therefore able to give some first-
hand appreciations, illustrated by means of photographs liberally supplied by
the excavators themselves. The comparative value of these for the Knos-
sian Palace in its earliest shape is very great.
In the early Nilotic and Egyptian field I have received most valuable help
from Professor P. E. Newberry, who has placed valuable materials at my
disposal, and I have also had the benefit of the admirable drawings illustrative
of the Minoan tributaries depicted in the Theban tombs by Mr. and Mrs. de
Garis Davies. As in the past, moreover, I have received scholarly and pains-
taking help from Professor F. LI. Griffith of Oxford, from Dr. H. R. Hall,
Keeper of Oriental Antiquities in the British Museum, and from Dr. Alan
Gardiner, the Editor of the Journal of Egyptology.
I have endeavoured throughout this work to express, however imper-
fectly, my acknowledgement to the current publications of fellow workers.
But it is always possible—especially for those engaged largely in field
work—to miss printed materials, scattered as they now are beyond all corn-
passable range. That others may have corroborated conclusions indepen-
dently reached in the course of these inquiries is itself all to the good. Some
important contributions to Minoan archaeology, indeed, that have appeared
since this Volume was in the press I have, perforce, been enable to
refer to. Amongst these may be mentioned Professor Martin Nilsson's
important work on Minoan Religion,1 which traverses so much common
ground in all that affects that subject. For his generous references to
my own work I can only here offer my warm acknowledgements. My best
commentary is supplied by the new materials concerning the attributes and
cult of the great Minoan Goddess contained in this Volume, and in particular
the evidences of her chthonic aspect.
Nor can I make more than a very inadequate reference here to the
1 The Minoan-Mycenaean Religion and its Survival in Greek Religion. Lund, C. W. K.
Gleerup: Oxford University Press, &c, 1927.
Antiquities, who has always placed his own information and the resources of
the Candia Museum at my disposal in the most obliging way.
To my French colleagues, Monsieur J. Charbonneux and, after him,
Monsieur F. Chapouthier, I am in a special way indebted for the friendly
permission to study on the spot their epoch-making discoveries in the early
Palace of Mallia about which I have been therefore able to give some first-
hand appreciations, illustrated by means of photographs liberally supplied by
the excavators themselves. The comparative value of these for the Knos-
sian Palace in its earliest shape is very great.
In the early Nilotic and Egyptian field I have received most valuable help
from Professor P. E. Newberry, who has placed valuable materials at my
disposal, and I have also had the benefit of the admirable drawings illustrative
of the Minoan tributaries depicted in the Theban tombs by Mr. and Mrs. de
Garis Davies. As in the past, moreover, I have received scholarly and pains-
taking help from Professor F. LI. Griffith of Oxford, from Dr. H. R. Hall,
Keeper of Oriental Antiquities in the British Museum, and from Dr. Alan
Gardiner, the Editor of the Journal of Egyptology.
I have endeavoured throughout this work to express, however imper-
fectly, my acknowledgement to the current publications of fellow workers.
But it is always possible—especially for those engaged largely in field
work—to miss printed materials, scattered as they now are beyond all corn-
passable range. That others may have corroborated conclusions indepen-
dently reached in the course of these inquiries is itself all to the good. Some
important contributions to Minoan archaeology, indeed, that have appeared
since this Volume was in the press I have, perforce, been enable to
refer to. Amongst these may be mentioned Professor Martin Nilsson's
important work on Minoan Religion,1 which traverses so much common
ground in all that affects that subject. For his generous references to
my own work I can only here offer my warm acknowledgements. My best
commentary is supplied by the new materials concerning the attributes and
cult of the great Minoan Goddess contained in this Volume, and in particular
the evidences of her chthonic aspect.
Nor can I make more than a very inadequate reference here to the
1 The Minoan-Mycenaean Religion and its Survival in Greek Religion. Lund, C. W. K.
Gleerup: Oxford University Press, &c, 1927.