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must also be reasonably regarded as having reached the Island from
the same source. If it was used as any kind of receptacle it must have

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greater capacity.

It is now possible Parallel

to supplement this evi- recently
dence by the inclu- f°u,nd at

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sion of another steatite
figure of a crouched
Sphinx in dark steatite
closely resembling that
from HagiaTriada. It
was found togetherwith
a Minoan female figur-
ine of great interest at
Tylissos, an important
settlement, West of
Knossos, which may be
archaeologically re-

Fig. 291. a, b, c, Steatite Sphinx from Tylissos {c. §).

garded as an offshoot of the great Minoan Centre. Thanks to the great
courtesy of its possessor, Dr. G. F. Reber, I have been able to illustrate this
object, which in its style and dimensions as well as most of its details stands
very near the other, and was obviously of contemporary fabric (see Fig. 291).