Evans, Arthur J.: The Palace of Minos: a comparative account of the successive stages of the early Cretan civilization as illustred by the discoveries at Knossos (Band 2,1): Fresh lights on origins and external relations (London, 1928)

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Fallen from its floor, moreover, near the West wall, and sunken to Hoard
a level of about 75 cm. above the pavement of the pillar crypt below, was fe^dT
found a small hoard of silver vessels
(Fig. 221) that must have been con-
tained in a small wooden coffer which
had kept them together in their fall.
These vessels, clearly designed for
ceremonial use, consisted of three

Fig. 221.

Hoard of Silver Vessels from the
South House.

bowls of surpassingly tenuous fabric,
nested together, and a small handled

vessel like a modern cream jug (Fig. 221, b). One of the bowls (a) was
decorated with a repousse work design of' tailed' spirals of Middle Minoan tra-
dition : another (c) had an overlapping rim and a handle curving upwards.1

1 The vessel, Fig. 221, c. represents this interior view without the handle is given behind
bowl in profile with the handle restored. An the 'cream jug '.