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§ 39- The Transit Road in Relation to North and West : Amber
Route : Iberic, Britannic, and Maltese Connexions.
The Central Road in relation to Overseas commerce; Ancient Transit
Routes ; Nauplia to Gulf of Corinth—a further link, seized by Minoans ;
Maritime connexions with South Italy; Tin routes to the West; The
' Maraviglie'; Irish halberds in Po Valley and in Sixth Shaft Grave, Mycenae ;
Amber Trade by East Adriatic Coast to Greece and Crete; Minoan influences
on Amber Route—Vapheio Cup type imitated in Elbe Valley; Cretan tin
supply possibly from Italian side; Did Minoans carry tin to Egypt ?
Suggestive Eleventh Dynasty Relief; Egyptian tin flask of Aegean type ; Was
there a direct Iberian route, via Malta ? Minoan and Aegean traces in Maltese
Megalithic Monuments ; Malta on Mediterranean highivay ; its Monuments
advanced examples of a Western Group ; Sanctuaries associated with Cult of
Dead; Pillar Cult parallel with Minoan ; Indications of Chalcolithic context
of Maltese Monuments; Maltese curvilinear patterns a secondary stagey-
Painted decoration of Hal-Saflieni—Minoan prototypes ; The ' disk' motive ;
Miniature Altar-like structure of Minoan class; Incised building with isodomic
masonry—its pillared opening ; Foliated designs parallel to Minoan ; Chrono-
logical data—overlying Bronze Age stratum at Hal-Tarxien ; Libyan affinities
of Maltese Cult; Pillar Trinities; Oracular rites ; Connexions of Minoan
Religion with Delta Goddess ; The Libyan ' Dea Coeleslis'.
The continuation of the Minoan Built Way, of which there are indications The
somewhat South-East of the Little Palace and again farther North of that transit
point, skirting the modern road to Candia,1 brings us to another aspect of Rout.e in
this Central transit route, as a link between the overseas traffic of the Libyan to Over-
Sea and that of the Aegean basin. The harbour town of Knossos, moreover, Q^n,
was also, as we shall see, the abutting point of a coastal and overland merce.
route from the Easternmost havens of the Island, which brought the great
Minoan centre into connexion with an Oriental trade line that followed the
Southern coast of Asia Minor from the Syrian ports beyond. This also
brought Cretan commerce at the same time into contact with the maritime
outlets of the rich ore-bearing Cilician region.
To this tributary route from the East we shall return below, in particular
connexion with a series of relics found in or near the harbour town of
Knossos and with the clear evidences of Anatolian contact afforded by the
early Palace at Mallia, farther along the coast.
1 See above, p. 153 seqq.
Route : Iberic, Britannic, and Maltese Connexions.
The Central Road in relation to Overseas commerce; Ancient Transit
Routes ; Nauplia to Gulf of Corinth—a further link, seized by Minoans ;
Maritime connexions with South Italy; Tin routes to the West; The
' Maraviglie'; Irish halberds in Po Valley and in Sixth Shaft Grave, Mycenae ;
Amber Trade by East Adriatic Coast to Greece and Crete; Minoan influences
on Amber Route—Vapheio Cup type imitated in Elbe Valley; Cretan tin
supply possibly from Italian side; Did Minoans carry tin to Egypt ?
Suggestive Eleventh Dynasty Relief; Egyptian tin flask of Aegean type ; Was
there a direct Iberian route, via Malta ? Minoan and Aegean traces in Maltese
Megalithic Monuments ; Malta on Mediterranean highivay ; its Monuments
advanced examples of a Western Group ; Sanctuaries associated with Cult of
Dead; Pillar Cult parallel with Minoan ; Indications of Chalcolithic context
of Maltese Monuments; Maltese curvilinear patterns a secondary stagey-
Painted decoration of Hal-Saflieni—Minoan prototypes ; The ' disk' motive ;
Miniature Altar-like structure of Minoan class; Incised building with isodomic
masonry—its pillared opening ; Foliated designs parallel to Minoan ; Chrono-
logical data—overlying Bronze Age stratum at Hal-Tarxien ; Libyan affinities
of Maltese Cult; Pillar Trinities; Oracular rites ; Connexions of Minoan
Religion with Delta Goddess ; The Libyan ' Dea Coeleslis'.
The continuation of the Minoan Built Way, of which there are indications The
somewhat South-East of the Little Palace and again farther North of that transit
point, skirting the modern road to Candia,1 brings us to another aspect of Rout.e in
this Central transit route, as a link between the overseas traffic of the Libyan to Over-
Sea and that of the Aegean basin. The harbour town of Knossos, moreover, Q^n,
was also, as we shall see, the abutting point of a coastal and overland merce.
route from the Easternmost havens of the Island, which brought the great
Minoan centre into connexion with an Oriental trade line that followed the
Southern coast of Asia Minor from the Syrian ports beyond. This also
brought Cretan commerce at the same time into contact with the maritime
outlets of the rich ore-bearing Cilician region.
To this tributary route from the East we shall return below, in particular
connexion with a series of relics found in or near the harbour town of
Knossos and with the clear evidences of Anatolian contact afforded by the
early Palace at Mallia, farther along the coast.
1 See above, p. 153 seqq.