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 2,2): Town houses in Knossos of the new era and restored West Palace Section (London, 1928)

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of restoration, but their elongated type is well represented by the con-
temporary specimen (Fig.
241 is) from the North-East
Magazines of the Palace.
This specimen, indeed, is of
particular interest since it
belongs to an absolutely
parallel stratum, having
been found at a slightly
higher level than the
original M. M. 111 b floor
of these Magazines. Good
parallels are found atTylis"
sos.1 The ' trickle' orna-
ment, itself of very ancient
derivation,is a featureof all
this family of store-jars.

On the same floor, be-
side a pithos of the rope-
work type here illustrated,
there came to light in the
Sixth Magazine the sealing
(Fig. 242, a, b, c) formed of
a thick nodule of clay and
doubtless used for securing
some valuable possession.
It is inscribed on two
sides with characters of the
Linear Class A.2 A new
feature here is the sign
after the ' facing head ' on
Fig. 242, b, which resembles
a truncated lion's head and
supplies an interesting
parallel to the bull's heads
similarly truncated, that

Similar
jars from
Palace,
Tylissos,
&c.

M.M. Ill
seal-im-
pression.

Discovery
of in-
scribed
clay seal-
ing pre-
senting
lion's
head
' rhyton'.

Fig. 211 b. M.M. Ill b Pithos with Conventionized
Cord Decoration, from Kxossos.

Hatzidakis, TVA«x<tos Mh-okkj) ('E<£. 'ApX-)- Comparative Table, P. of M.t i, p/642). The

The second sign seen on Fig. 242, c, seems preceding sign also occurs in Class B, but the

to be a variant of Type 12 d, of this class (see simpler form here seen is more characteristic

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