Evans, Arthur J.: The Palace of Minos: a comparative account of the successive stages of the early Cretan civilization as illustred by the discoveries at Knossos (Band 4,1): Emergence of outer western enceinte, with new illustrations, artistic and religious, of the Middle Minoan Phase (London, 1935)

364 PEDESTALLED GOBLETS OF METAL AND CLAY

narrowing as it approaches the base, is far from forming a solid stem. An
early specimen (a) from Palaikastro is given at the head of the comparative
group illustrated in Fig. 304,1 where the vivid colouring and white embellish-
ment show that it belongs to the mature L. M. I a phase. In this case
the clay imitation of a rivet-head at the junction of the handle and rim

Antecedent Forms of Clay Goblets, showing Single Handles, a, Palaikastro
(L. M. I a); 6, Vapheio Tomb (L. M. lb); c, Phaestos (L. M. I b).

clearly points to a metal prototype. A series of L. M. I b goblets like those
with the ' adder mark' round their rims, Fig. 304, c, have also only one
handle, there terminating in the adder's head. The Vapheio specimen (6)
of the same approximate date, belongs to this'one-handled class.

But experience seems to have shown that in the case of these large
pedestalled bowls, whether of metal or clay, a second handle was both a con-
venience to its user and of better security to the fabric of the vessel. In
the L. M. II Period, if we may judge from the bronze specimens, Fig. 305, 6,
found in the ' Tomb of the Tripod Hearths' at Zafer Papoura, and another
of silver from the 'Royal Tomb' at Isopata, as restored in Fig. 305, a?
the two-handled form was corning into vogue. The pedestalled gold cup

1 As restored in Palaikastro Excavations:
Suppl. Paper II, PI. XVII b. See R. C.
Bosanquet, p. 34. This vessel had a hole in
its base and may therefore have been made
use of as a flower-pot of the class described

above (cf. P. of M., iii, pp. 277-9).

- In my Preh. Tombs of Knossos, p. IS5»
Fig. 139, it is restored, with less probability,
as having only one handle.