346
WERE THE BULLETS ACHAEAN?
Greek
settle-
ment.
Period
of sea
raids.
Shrine—and the ' proto-geometrical' period that belongs already to the early
days of actual conquest. But on the Palace site itself relics of this inter-
mediate class are conspicuous by their absence.1 From the close of the
' Reoccupation' period onwards the site as a whole remained derelict for
long ages to come, a desolation only partly broken at a much later date by
the planting there of the small Greek sanctuary near the Upper Propylaeum.2
That this sudden desertion of the site was the result of a raid from over-
seas is a highly probable conclusion. As in the case of the later Vikings
who ravaged our own shores, it is reasonable to suppose that here too
a period of piratic descents preceded that of actual conquest. The Egyptian
records of Rameses III at Medinet Habu give us, indeed, a vivid picture of
such sea raids in which the Akaiwasha took part.3
1 Some vessels of this class were found at 2 See above, p. 6.
a higher level on the South-East borders of the s See P. o/M., i, pp. 664, 665, and Fig. 489.
site in the early days of the excavation.
Fig. 198. Fetishes in Form of Natural Concretions from Reoccupation Shrine,
Little Palace, Knossos.
WERE THE BULLETS ACHAEAN?
Greek
settle-
ment.
Period
of sea
raids.
Shrine—and the ' proto-geometrical' period that belongs already to the early
days of actual conquest. But on the Palace site itself relics of this inter-
mediate class are conspicuous by their absence.1 From the close of the
' Reoccupation' period onwards the site as a whole remained derelict for
long ages to come, a desolation only partly broken at a much later date by
the planting there of the small Greek sanctuary near the Upper Propylaeum.2
That this sudden desertion of the site was the result of a raid from over-
seas is a highly probable conclusion. As in the case of the later Vikings
who ravaged our own shores, it is reasonable to suppose that here too
a period of piratic descents preceded that of actual conquest. The Egyptian
records of Rameses III at Medinet Habu give us, indeed, a vivid picture of
such sea raids in which the Akaiwasha took part.3
1 Some vessels of this class were found at 2 See above, p. 6.
a higher level on the South-East borders of the s See P. o/M., i, pp. 664, 665, and Fig. 489.
site in the early days of the excavation.
Fig. 198. Fetishes in Form of Natural Concretions from Reoccupation Shrine,
Little Palace, Knossos.