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CHRONOLOGICAL EVIDENCE 403
of the Cretan class, distinguished by its brilliant vermilion glaze, from
a M. M. Ill a deposit in a basement N.W. of the Palace has been illustrated
above. Those from Phaestos, (d) the rim and handles of which have a milky
white wash, and which show a waved red band round the neck, must be
regarded as belonging to a maturer phase of the same Period. On the
other hand, the vases represented by Fig. 267, e, found above the ' Ivory
Deposit', which showed no remaining traces of painted decoration, and were
equipped with less elegantly set handles, must certainly be referred to
a somewhat degenerate stage of the fabric. They belong in fact to the
closing M. M. 111 b stage. That they were found—two of them fairly com-
plete—immediately above the ivories may point to their having been placed
there shortly after the precipitation of the latter. There was no inter-
vening deposit.
The little closet in which these remains lay had been re-used, like the
small chamber above the ' Queen's Bath-room', by squatters of the Re-
occupation period, and, in this case as in the other, there occurred, after an
interval of deposit 30 centimetres thick, a late floor-level on which were
' stirrup-vases' and two-handled jugs of L. M. Ill a date.
Corroborative chronological evidence of great interest was supplied by Frag-
the occurrence in the ' Ivory Deposit' of two very fine fragments of Minia- Minia-
ture Fresco. These, as shown above,1 relate to bull-grappling; scenes in 'ure
.,,.,. . Fresco
connexion with a pillar shrine presenting Double Axe symbols. It seems, with
moreover, extremely probable that another larger fragment found somewhat Deposit'
high up above the floor of the ' Queen's Megaron ' depicting part of a relating
charging bull, with acrobatic figures above,2 belonged to the same series, sports,
though it had drifted in another direction.
It seems possible that though, owing to the structural damage caused Upper
by the great Earthquake, a large part of the contents of this Upper chamber
Treasury had been precipitated into the Store Room below or the adjoining ].ater used
Stair Closet, some portion of it may have been upheld by what remained of chives.
represented by No. 40 of the Hieroglyphic sig- vase in the Cairo Museum from the Tomb of
nary (A. E., Scripta Minoa, i, p. 197). So, too, Queen Hatshepsut (c. 1480) (H. R. Hall, The
the early Egyptian carinated bowls of diorite Civilization ofGreece in the Bronze Age, p. 200,
and other materials appear with handles in Fig. 261). The upper tier of handles is here
their Minoan clay derivatives. The Minoan alone taken over, but, like these, the ringed
carinated bowl of Spartan basalt, p. 270, base is due to the reaction of a Cretan model
Fig. 182 above, had been given metal handles, resembling the ' amphora ' seen in the Senmut
A parallel Egyptian type, but nearer related to tomb (.P. of M., ii, Pt. II, p. 426, Fig. 247).
the Minoan 'pithoid amphoras' (P. of M., ii, * See above, pp. 207, 208, Figs. 141, 142.
Pt. II, p. 424 seqq.) is supplied by a marble 2 See above, p. 209, Fig. 143.
D d 2
of the Cretan class, distinguished by its brilliant vermilion glaze, from
a M. M. Ill a deposit in a basement N.W. of the Palace has been illustrated
above. Those from Phaestos, (d) the rim and handles of which have a milky
white wash, and which show a waved red band round the neck, must be
regarded as belonging to a maturer phase of the same Period. On the
other hand, the vases represented by Fig. 267, e, found above the ' Ivory
Deposit', which showed no remaining traces of painted decoration, and were
equipped with less elegantly set handles, must certainly be referred to
a somewhat degenerate stage of the fabric. They belong in fact to the
closing M. M. 111 b stage. That they were found—two of them fairly com-
plete—immediately above the ivories may point to their having been placed
there shortly after the precipitation of the latter. There was no inter-
vening deposit.
The little closet in which these remains lay had been re-used, like the
small chamber above the ' Queen's Bath-room', by squatters of the Re-
occupation period, and, in this case as in the other, there occurred, after an
interval of deposit 30 centimetres thick, a late floor-level on which were
' stirrup-vases' and two-handled jugs of L. M. Ill a date.
Corroborative chronological evidence of great interest was supplied by Frag-
the occurrence in the ' Ivory Deposit' of two very fine fragments of Minia- Minia-
ture Fresco. These, as shown above,1 relate to bull-grappling; scenes in 'ure
.,,.,. . Fresco
connexion with a pillar shrine presenting Double Axe symbols. It seems, with
moreover, extremely probable that another larger fragment found somewhat Deposit'
high up above the floor of the ' Queen's Megaron ' depicting part of a relating
charging bull, with acrobatic figures above,2 belonged to the same series, sports,
though it had drifted in another direction.
It seems possible that though, owing to the structural damage caused Upper
by the great Earthquake, a large part of the contents of this Upper chamber
Treasury had been precipitated into the Store Room below or the adjoining ].ater used
Stair Closet, some portion of it may have been upheld by what remained of chives.
represented by No. 40 of the Hieroglyphic sig- vase in the Cairo Museum from the Tomb of
nary (A. E., Scripta Minoa, i, p. 197). So, too, Queen Hatshepsut (c. 1480) (H. R. Hall, The
the early Egyptian carinated bowls of diorite Civilization ofGreece in the Bronze Age, p. 200,
and other materials appear with handles in Fig. 261). The upper tier of handles is here
their Minoan clay derivatives. The Minoan alone taken over, but, like these, the ringed
carinated bowl of Spartan basalt, p. 270, base is due to the reaction of a Cretan model
Fig. 182 above, had been given metal handles, resembling the ' amphora ' seen in the Senmut
A parallel Egyptian type, but nearer related to tomb (.P. of M., ii, Pt. II, p. 426, Fig. 247).
the Minoan 'pithoid amphoras' (P. of M., ii, * See above, pp. 207, 208, Figs. 141, 142.
Pt. II, p. 424 seqq.) is supplied by a marble 2 See above, p. 209, Fig. 143.
D d 2