Evans, Arthur: The shaft graves and bee-hive tombs of Mycenae and their interrelation (London, 1929)

CONNEXION BETWEEN KNOSSOS AND MYCENAE 91

Tomb of remains of limestone vessels with circular borings
of the M.M. Ill a Knossian deposits.

The best parallel to these stone fabrics has to
be sought in the remains associated with the lid
of the Hyksos King Khyan in the ' Initiatory
Area' to the North of the great Minoan Palace.
The breccia material, on the other hand, of the
associated fragment of the bull s-head rhyton with
quatrefoil inlays takes us to the neighbouring quar-
ries of the Kakon Oros. Of special significance,
moreover, are the remains of the large ' Medallion
pithoi' from the ' Clytemnestra' Tomb, since here
we see reproductions in green Cretan steatite, of
a type of vessel, best represented in the ' Royal
Magazines' of the Middle Palace at Knossos, and
of which again, no specimen
has been found on any other
site.

The presence, indeed,
of these palatial vessels
brings the great sepulchral
vaults of Mycenae into a
specially close relation with
the residential centre of the
Minoan Priest-Kings, as it
existed on Cretan soil in
the age that preceded their
construction. The depen-
dence of the bull reliefs
on the Elgin slabs from
the entrance area of the
'Atreus' Tomb is itself only
one of a series of significant
phenomena. The existing
remains of the Palace at My-
cenae itself, so far as they
have been preserved to us, Fit
suggest a very direct inspi-
ration from the same source.

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