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TRADITIONAL ANATOLIAN CONNEXIONS 13
crouching and squatting types of Neolithic tradition to the more extended
posture of later usage,1 Minoan and Cycladic, though the legs are here mere
stumps. It is still pronouncedly steatopygous and symptoms of approaching
maternity are clearly indicated. It is possible that the punctuated decoration
was suggested by the practice of tattooing. The original height of this
figurine would have been about 6 cm., but two fragments from this deposit,
on^ showing the greater part of a hand, Fig. 3, aa, the other a piece of the
wrist (from another figure but on the same scale), prove that much larger
clay images must have existed. The fingers are stumped off, but the
breadth of the hand is about 4 cm. The open palm seen here proves that the
'adoring' type of image such as we find it at Knossos in the Late Minoan
shrine of the Double Axes and elsewhere2 is an inheritance from Neolithic
times. Fig. 3, 2, is a rude animal's head, perhaps the Cretan short-horn.
Beyond the perforated shells and an amulet described below, the only Beads,
trace of personal ornaments was supplied by two beads, one made of a small j^"^,.
black steatite disk (Fig. 5, /), the other 1 • 1 cm. in diameter, of a fine ments,
mottled stone, Fig. 5, e. The typical bone punch or awl with its knuckled
butt (Fig. 3, h) recalls numerous similar specimens from Magaza, and the
^hisel-like bone instrument, Fig. 3, g, may have been used in smoothing the
surface of pots. Womens' industry was illustrated by a clay spool3 and
numerous spindle-whorls of the same material,4 one of them showing signs
of pricked decoration. Sponge-like lumps of pumice-stone—such as are cast
up by the sea on the neighbouring coast—were of frequent occurrence but
further worn, as with scouring. Slate disks used for pot-stands were
also found, at times in groups, on the floors.
Besides the usual globular hammerstones and limestone mauls, mostly Stone
of round or oval contour, for crushing corn, about a dozen polished stone mint's,
implements including broken specimens came to light in this area. The
stone axes were, as usual in the Cretan Neolithic series, of two main types
and of the usual materials, one thick and generally a good deal roughened
at the butt as Fig. 3, a (greenstone), the other flatter and more triangular,
as Fig. 3, b (serpentine). Part of a jadeite implement, apparently of the
latter form, has a sharp, brilliantly polished edge. Fig. 3, c, of a hard
schistose material may represent an adze, and e shows the cutting end of Flake of
a jasper chisel. Together with other obsidian flakes, was the knife, Fig. 5, a, p^r"n"t
Obsidian,
1 A very similar figure with truncated legs 3 Resembling vol. i, Fig. 10, 2 with similar from
was found at Palaikastro (in Candia Museum). pricked decoration. xzxi.
2 See below, p. 337, Fig. 189, and p. 340, * Cf. vol. i, Fig. 10, 7-9.
Fig. 193, and compare Fig. 63, p. 129.
crouching and squatting types of Neolithic tradition to the more extended
posture of later usage,1 Minoan and Cycladic, though the legs are here mere
stumps. It is still pronouncedly steatopygous and symptoms of approaching
maternity are clearly indicated. It is possible that the punctuated decoration
was suggested by the practice of tattooing. The original height of this
figurine would have been about 6 cm., but two fragments from this deposit,
on^ showing the greater part of a hand, Fig. 3, aa, the other a piece of the
wrist (from another figure but on the same scale), prove that much larger
clay images must have existed. The fingers are stumped off, but the
breadth of the hand is about 4 cm. The open palm seen here proves that the
'adoring' type of image such as we find it at Knossos in the Late Minoan
shrine of the Double Axes and elsewhere2 is an inheritance from Neolithic
times. Fig. 3, 2, is a rude animal's head, perhaps the Cretan short-horn.
Beyond the perforated shells and an amulet described below, the only Beads,
trace of personal ornaments was supplied by two beads, one made of a small j^"^,.
black steatite disk (Fig. 5, /), the other 1 • 1 cm. in diameter, of a fine ments,
mottled stone, Fig. 5, e. The typical bone punch or awl with its knuckled
butt (Fig. 3, h) recalls numerous similar specimens from Magaza, and the
^hisel-like bone instrument, Fig. 3, g, may have been used in smoothing the
surface of pots. Womens' industry was illustrated by a clay spool3 and
numerous spindle-whorls of the same material,4 one of them showing signs
of pricked decoration. Sponge-like lumps of pumice-stone—such as are cast
up by the sea on the neighbouring coast—were of frequent occurrence but
further worn, as with scouring. Slate disks used for pot-stands were
also found, at times in groups, on the floors.
Besides the usual globular hammerstones and limestone mauls, mostly Stone
of round or oval contour, for crushing corn, about a dozen polished stone mint's,
implements including broken specimens came to light in this area. The
stone axes were, as usual in the Cretan Neolithic series, of two main types
and of the usual materials, one thick and generally a good deal roughened
at the butt as Fig. 3, a (greenstone), the other flatter and more triangular,
as Fig. 3, b (serpentine). Part of a jadeite implement, apparently of the
latter form, has a sharp, brilliantly polished edge. Fig. 3, c, of a hard
schistose material may represent an adze, and e shows the cutting end of Flake of
a jasper chisel. Together with other obsidian flakes, was the knife, Fig. 5, a, p^r"n"t
Obsidian,
1 A very similar figure with truncated legs 3 Resembling vol. i, Fig. 10, 2 with similar from
was found at Palaikastro (in Candia Museum). pricked decoration. xzxi.
2 See below, p. 337, Fig. 189, and p. 340, * Cf. vol. i, Fig. 10, 7-9.
Fig. 193, and compare Fig. 63, p. 129.