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LAPIDARY'S STORE OF SPARTAN BASALT
Pre-
sumed
wooden
steps
from
lower
store-
room
to work-
shop
above.
Fig. 182. Bowl of Spartan Basalt from 'Royal Tomb', Isopata.
found in the ' Royal Tomb ' at Isopata (Fig. 182)' belonging to the latest
epoch of the Palace (L. M. II), but from the signs that it bore of the re-
adaptation of the handles this vessel must be regarded as an heirloom
rather than a
contemporary
work. Its ca-
rinated form,
in fact, derives
from the beau-
tifully ' keeled'
bowls of trans-
lucent diorite
of Fourth Dy-
nasty Egyp-
tian fabric,
fragments be-
loncrinp- to
several speci-
mens of which were found on and around the Palace site.2 It may, however,
with great probability be ascribed to the Palace fabric connected with this
store. Certain intaglios of Cretan provenance are known of this material,
belonging to the early part of the Late Minoan Age ; these, indeed, include
the very fine specimen originally described by Milchoefer, representing a
Minoan Genius leading a bull. The fact alone that the rock itself was
derived from stone of Mount Taygetos leads us to infer that its use in
Minoan Crete was posterior to the close connexion with the Peloponnese
established about the beginning of the Third Middle Minoan Period. It is
probable that part at least of the store of Spartan basalt found in this
basement Magazine may go back to the epoch of its construction in
M. M. Ill b, but its use may well have continued to the last days of the
Palace. Considering, indeed, that this store lay immediately beneath the
workshop of the lapidary whose work, as we shall see,3 was rudely interrupted
by the final catastrophe, we may well believe that he had some way of
access to it—by means of a ladder or wooden steps—an arrangement
similar to that already illustrated by the workshop of the maker of stone
lamps in the house outside the South-East Palace Angle.4
1 Reproduced from P. of M.,
Fig. 56.
2 Ibid., p. 85 seqq.
p. 87, 3 See P. of M., Vol. iv.
4 Ibid., ii, Pt. I, pp. 297, 2c
LAPIDARY'S STORE OF SPARTAN BASALT
Pre-
sumed
wooden
steps
from
lower
store-
room
to work-
shop
above.
Fig. 182. Bowl of Spartan Basalt from 'Royal Tomb', Isopata.
found in the ' Royal Tomb ' at Isopata (Fig. 182)' belonging to the latest
epoch of the Palace (L. M. II), but from the signs that it bore of the re-
adaptation of the handles this vessel must be regarded as an heirloom
rather than a
contemporary
work. Its ca-
rinated form,
in fact, derives
from the beau-
tifully ' keeled'
bowls of trans-
lucent diorite
of Fourth Dy-
nasty Egyp-
tian fabric,
fragments be-
loncrinp- to
several speci-
mens of which were found on and around the Palace site.2 It may, however,
with great probability be ascribed to the Palace fabric connected with this
store. Certain intaglios of Cretan provenance are known of this material,
belonging to the early part of the Late Minoan Age ; these, indeed, include
the very fine specimen originally described by Milchoefer, representing a
Minoan Genius leading a bull. The fact alone that the rock itself was
derived from stone of Mount Taygetos leads us to infer that its use in
Minoan Crete was posterior to the close connexion with the Peloponnese
established about the beginning of the Third Middle Minoan Period. It is
probable that part at least of the store of Spartan basalt found in this
basement Magazine may go back to the epoch of its construction in
M. M. Ill b, but its use may well have continued to the last days of the
Palace. Considering, indeed, that this store lay immediately beneath the
workshop of the lapidary whose work, as we shall see,3 was rudely interrupted
by the final catastrophe, we may well believe that he had some way of
access to it—by means of a ladder or wooden steps—an arrangement
similar to that already illustrated by the workshop of the maker of stone
lamps in the house outside the South-East Palace Angle.4
1 Reproduced from P. of M.,
Fig. 56.
2 Ibid., p. 85 seqq.
p. 87, 3 See P. of M., Vol. iv.
4 Ibid., ii, Pt. I, pp. 297, 2c