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Stela in
Knossian
chamber
tomb,
Mavro
Spelio.
up on
246 STELAE FOUND WITHIN VAULTS OF TOMBS
stone platform on the top of the tholos, upon which stelae were setl B '
is more probable that in this case, too, the grave-stones had been set un
the floor of the vault, where
their individual relation-
ship to the interments
would be clearly marked.
The evidence of careful
socketing in a stone base
itself illustrates Schlie-
mann'sobservations regard-
ing the tomb-stone found
over the Third Shaft
Grave.
A good instance in
point has now been sup-
plied by the early cemetery
of Mavro Spelio atKnossos,
that lies on the height
beyond the Kairatos, the
large rock-chambers of
which, though they con-
tinued in use to L.M. III,
in all cases seem to have
gone back well into the
Middle Minoan Age. Here Mr. E. J. Forsdyke, in the course of his excava-
tion of Tomb IV, came across the limestone slab, about 3 feet high,
shown in Fig. 1S5,2 in which we must surely recognize a sepulchral stela-
Although its upper curve is but rudely fashioned, its lower part, as we shall
see, was definitely shaped with a view to fixing it in an upright position.
The fore-part of this tomb had been destroyed, and the slab lay in tlie
left-hand compartment of the back of the vault. There can be no
question, therefore, of its having been part of the door-blocking, t|ie
entrance itself having long disappeared, and indeed such blockings always
consist of comparatively small rough stones. There were no deep p
Fig. 185. Stela from Chamber Tomb IV, Mavro
Spelio, Knossos, with Mark oe the Lkvel to which
it had been inserted below.
1 StamataklS, ttepl rnv Trapa to 'Hpaiov
KaGapiatla'TOS Tucpou {Aik. Mitth.j 1S78, p.
271 seqq.).
"■ E. J. Forsdyke, The Mavro Spelio Ceme-
tery at Knossos (£. S. A., xxviii, p. 243 seqq.;
sonic-
used
see p. 248, and p. 255, F'ig. 7).
' The lower section of the slab
what obscured in Fig. 185 by Hie blocks|>ol0
to fix it in an upright position for my P'
graph.
Knossian
chamber
tomb,
Mavro
Spelio.
up on
246 STELAE FOUND WITHIN VAULTS OF TOMBS
stone platform on the top of the tholos, upon which stelae were setl B '
is more probable that in this case, too, the grave-stones had been set un
the floor of the vault, where
their individual relation-
ship to the interments
would be clearly marked.
The evidence of careful
socketing in a stone base
itself illustrates Schlie-
mann'sobservations regard-
ing the tomb-stone found
over the Third Shaft
Grave.
A good instance in
point has now been sup-
plied by the early cemetery
of Mavro Spelio atKnossos,
that lies on the height
beyond the Kairatos, the
large rock-chambers of
which, though they con-
tinued in use to L.M. III,
in all cases seem to have
gone back well into the
Middle Minoan Age. Here Mr. E. J. Forsdyke, in the course of his excava-
tion of Tomb IV, came across the limestone slab, about 3 feet high,
shown in Fig. 1S5,2 in which we must surely recognize a sepulchral stela-
Although its upper curve is but rudely fashioned, its lower part, as we shall
see, was definitely shaped with a view to fixing it in an upright position.
The fore-part of this tomb had been destroyed, and the slab lay in tlie
left-hand compartment of the back of the vault. There can be no
question, therefore, of its having been part of the door-blocking, t|ie
entrance itself having long disappeared, and indeed such blockings always
consist of comparatively small rough stones. There were no deep p
Fig. 185. Stela from Chamber Tomb IV, Mavro
Spelio, Knossos, with Mark oe the Lkvel to which
it had been inserted below.
1 StamataklS, ttepl rnv Trapa to 'Hpaiov
KaGapiatla'TOS Tucpou {Aik. Mitth.j 1S78, p.
271 seqq.).
"■ E. J. Forsdyke, The Mavro Spelio Ceme-
tery at Knossos (£. S. A., xxviii, p. 243 seqq.;
sonic-
used
see p. 248, and p. 255, F'ig. 7).
' The lower section of the slab
what obscured in Fig. 185 by Hie blocks|>ol0
to fix it in an upright position for my P'
graph.