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UNDERGROUND SPRING-CHAMBER
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Age. Here again we find exemplified the same system of door-fastening
and the smoke-hole at the top of the more or less conical roofs presents
the peculiar feature of being provided with a movable cover somewhat
resembling the stopper of a bottle, in the hut itself, doubtless, designed for
use in times of heavy rain or snow. This, indeed, might explain the peculiar
form of the roof in another Cretan hut-urn from Phaestos, shown beside
it in the inset below (3).
But in this case con-
ditions both of space
and time make borrow-,
ing on the Cretan side
out of the question.
The Goddess in her
hut - shaped tabernacle
may be regarded as one
of the earliest of the
relics that mark the
period when the chamber
had become the goal of
Cylindri-
cal stands
with
triple
openings.
a b
Fig. 67. Cylindrical Supports with Openings.
votaries. With it may be grouped another somewhat parallel type of vessel
of cylindrical form with three openings—in this case, windows rather than
doors—of which a fragmentary and a nearly perfect specimen were found
(Fig. 67, b). The fragment shows an interlocking S pattern of Minoan
tradition and rounded openings. In the case of the more perfect vessel
the latter are oblong, with dark bands enclosing and connecting them like
the timbering about Minoan windows. Fig. 67, a, from the East Palace
slope at Knossos, which supplies the immediate forerunner of these vessels,
is a L. M. \\\b specimen, but the prototype goes back to M. M. III. It
seems possible that burning charcoal was placed in the lower part of these
utensils so as to keep warm the contents of vessels set on their rims. They
are often open below.1 Most remarkable of this open class is a stand from
projecting ears analogous to the Cretan. Both
this and the hut-urn from Hammar were pro-
vided with the movable lid over the smoke hole
described in the text. The urn from Phaestos
(Pernier, Mon. Ant,xn, 1902, p. 128, Fig. 55)
here referred to is placed beside the Smalie
example in the inset (b).
1 Some have broad feet, like one from
a, Sweden.
b, Phaestos.
'33
Age. Here again we find exemplified the same system of door-fastening
and the smoke-hole at the top of the more or less conical roofs presents
the peculiar feature of being provided with a movable cover somewhat
resembling the stopper of a bottle, in the hut itself, doubtless, designed for
use in times of heavy rain or snow. This, indeed, might explain the peculiar
form of the roof in another Cretan hut-urn from Phaestos, shown beside
it in the inset below (3).
But in this case con-
ditions both of space
and time make borrow-,
ing on the Cretan side
out of the question.
The Goddess in her
hut - shaped tabernacle
may be regarded as one
of the earliest of the
relics that mark the
period when the chamber
had become the goal of
Cylindri-
cal stands
with
triple
openings.
a b
Fig. 67. Cylindrical Supports with Openings.
votaries. With it may be grouped another somewhat parallel type of vessel
of cylindrical form with three openings—in this case, windows rather than
doors—of which a fragmentary and a nearly perfect specimen were found
(Fig. 67, b). The fragment shows an interlocking S pattern of Minoan
tradition and rounded openings. In the case of the more perfect vessel
the latter are oblong, with dark bands enclosing and connecting them like
the timbering about Minoan windows. Fig. 67, a, from the East Palace
slope at Knossos, which supplies the immediate forerunner of these vessels,
is a L. M. \\\b specimen, but the prototype goes back to M. M. III. It
seems possible that burning charcoal was placed in the lower part of these
utensils so as to keep warm the contents of vessels set on their rims. They
are often open below.1 Most remarkable of this open class is a stand from
projecting ears analogous to the Cretan. Both
this and the hut-urn from Hammar were pro-
vided with the movable lid over the smoke hole
described in the text. The urn from Phaestos
(Pernier, Mon. Ant,xn, 1902, p. 128, Fig. 55)
here referred to is placed beside the Smalie
example in the inset (b).
1 Some have broad feet, like one from
a, Sweden.
b, Phaestos.