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CONNEXIONS: LIBYAN AND EGYPTIAN FACTORS 31
of a smaller bowl showing a flat moulded base, and, internally, an incised ring
due to the working of a tubular drill, by means of which the central core was
cut out. The core had been broken away and the surface smoothed but hot
sufficiently to erase the ringed incision. (See Fig. 28, p. 59.)
It is a noteworthy fact that numerous stone vessels, whole or frag- Phase of
mentary, belonging to the pre-dynastic or proto-dynastic class that came to poned"1*
light occurred not in the Palace itself1 but sporadically, on its borders, y„ases \n
• 11 -nt tir t^i 1 Knossian
principally the North-West. There can be little doubt that they represent series,
part of the materials dumped down at the time when the top of the original
' Tell' was levelled away to secure a flat area for the construction of the
a 61 b2 c d
Fig. 13. Comparative Examples of Pre-dynastic and Cretan Figurines.
a, Naqada; b i, b 2, Knossos; c, Mesara ; • d, Hierakonpolis.
Palace as we know it. Their place, indeed, in the Knossian series now
stands clearly defined by the remains of the early stone vessels found in
the uppermost Neolithic stratum, though a certain proportion may be
referred to the transitional, sub-Neolithic phase of the First Early Minoan
Period. The more magnificent examples, such as the porphyry bowl, Fig. 12,
can hardly have formed part of ordinary domestic furniture. They may
well have served a religious function in some early residential seat.
Although, so far as the Cretan evidence goes, the occurrence of the Varied
actual remains of this early Nilotic class of stone vessels has been confined iotic^n_'"
to the site of Knossos, it has been already shown that certain forms of Early fluences.
Minoan vases of indigenous materials also go back to pre-dynastic Egyptian
1 In one exceptional case a fragment was thus supplied the prototypes of certain carinated
found embedded in a Palace wall (P. of M., i, clay bowls of M. M. I date (P. of M., i, p. 178,
p. 86, Fig. 55 b). The syenite bowl beneath Fig. 127, /). A small stone jar of pre-dynastic
the S. Propylaeum (op. cit., p. 67, Fig. 31) lay form occurred in a Mycenae tomb (Athens
in what we now know to have been made Mus., No. r), and fragments of a bowl in
earth. It is at the same time clear that such a Mycenaean deposit at Asine.
hard stone vessels long survived in use. They
of a smaller bowl showing a flat moulded base, and, internally, an incised ring
due to the working of a tubular drill, by means of which the central core was
cut out. The core had been broken away and the surface smoothed but hot
sufficiently to erase the ringed incision. (See Fig. 28, p. 59.)
It is a noteworthy fact that numerous stone vessels, whole or frag- Phase of
mentary, belonging to the pre-dynastic or proto-dynastic class that came to poned"1*
light occurred not in the Palace itself1 but sporadically, on its borders, y„ases \n
• 11 -nt tir t^i 1 Knossian
principally the North-West. There can be little doubt that they represent series,
part of the materials dumped down at the time when the top of the original
' Tell' was levelled away to secure a flat area for the construction of the
a 61 b2 c d
Fig. 13. Comparative Examples of Pre-dynastic and Cretan Figurines.
a, Naqada; b i, b 2, Knossos; c, Mesara ; • d, Hierakonpolis.
Palace as we know it. Their place, indeed, in the Knossian series now
stands clearly defined by the remains of the early stone vessels found in
the uppermost Neolithic stratum, though a certain proportion may be
referred to the transitional, sub-Neolithic phase of the First Early Minoan
Period. The more magnificent examples, such as the porphyry bowl, Fig. 12,
can hardly have formed part of ordinary domestic furniture. They may
well have served a religious function in some early residential seat.
Although, so far as the Cretan evidence goes, the occurrence of the Varied
actual remains of this early Nilotic class of stone vessels has been confined iotic^n_'"
to the site of Knossos, it has been already shown that certain forms of Early fluences.
Minoan vases of indigenous materials also go back to pre-dynastic Egyptian
1 In one exceptional case a fragment was thus supplied the prototypes of certain carinated
found embedded in a Palace wall (P. of M., i, clay bowls of M. M. I date (P. of M., i, p. 178,
p. 86, Fig. 55 b). The syenite bowl beneath Fig. 127, /). A small stone jar of pre-dynastic
the S. Propylaeum (op. cit., p. 67, Fig. 31) lay form occurred in a Mycenae tomb (Athens
in what we now know to have been made Mus., No. r), and fragments of a bowl in
earth. It is at the same time clear that such a Mycenaean deposit at Asine.
hard stone vessels long survived in use. They