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596 DEPOSIT B IN CENTRAL SHRINE
Deposit of Broken Sealings in Central Shrine.
A religious connexion, even more direct than that inferred in the case
Central of Deposit A, could be established for a hoard of fragmentary' clay seal
(m impressions, here referred to as B, found within the North Columnar Wino-
of the little shrine on the West side of the Central Court.1 The signet-
types consisted of not more than two or three varieties, all illustrating
the cult of the Minoan Rhea and clearly referring to a single sanctuary
(see Fig. 597 a, e). The Goddess is imaged as standing on a peak
between her guardian lions and beside a sanctuary building, in which we
may reasonably recognize that actually brought to light on the rocky crest
of Mount Juktas.'2
In this case, the broken sealings, instead of being scattered over a
considerable space, were found, approximately at the same level, just above
the floor, in the narrow space enclosed by the North wing of the Portico, and
the evidence, therefore, weighs against their having been broken by falling
from an upper repository. The breakage in this case may well have been due
to the opening of documents secured by them. It looks as if the priestly
superintendent of the sanctuary on the peak had been in regular correspon-
dence with his colleague of the Central Palace Shrine.
' The 'Archives Deposit'. C.
The a. more extensive series of seal impressions (C) stands in connexion
Deposit' with what, in its final palatial form, has been called the ' Room of the
Archives', in the Domestic Quarter. The 'Ivory Deposit' and other
precious relics found in the spaces immediately below had stood in relation
to this room under its earlier aspect as the 'East Treasury'.3 In an
upper layer of the floor of the same basement chamber—familiarly called
the 'Lair'—and in the adjoining spaces above this more precious deposit
was a stratum containing more or less fragmentary sealings, together with
a few tablets of Class B, which had evidently reached their present posi-
tion owing to the collapse of the floor of the room above. On its Eastern
1 P. of M, ii, Pt. II, pp. SoS, S09. The Revolution, an independent Government came
scene, as shown in Fig. 597 a, c, below, was into power, the Knossian signet-type thus
put together by me by means of overlapping pieced together was adopted for a new postage
pieces of several fragmentary specimens, stamp,
and the whole was subsequently drawn by - .//;., i, p. 154 seqq.
Monsieur E. Gillieton, pere. When, after the 3 See ibid., iii, p. 399 seqq.
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596 DEPOSIT B IN CENTRAL SHRINE
Deposit of Broken Sealings in Central Shrine.
A religious connexion, even more direct than that inferred in the case
Central of Deposit A, could be established for a hoard of fragmentary' clay seal
(m impressions, here referred to as B, found within the North Columnar Wino-
of the little shrine on the West side of the Central Court.1 The signet-
types consisted of not more than two or three varieties, all illustrating
the cult of the Minoan Rhea and clearly referring to a single sanctuary
(see Fig. 597 a, e). The Goddess is imaged as standing on a peak
between her guardian lions and beside a sanctuary building, in which we
may reasonably recognize that actually brought to light on the rocky crest
of Mount Juktas.'2
In this case, the broken sealings, instead of being scattered over a
considerable space, were found, approximately at the same level, just above
the floor, in the narrow space enclosed by the North wing of the Portico, and
the evidence, therefore, weighs against their having been broken by falling
from an upper repository. The breakage in this case may well have been due
to the opening of documents secured by them. It looks as if the priestly
superintendent of the sanctuary on the peak had been in regular correspon-
dence with his colleague of the Central Palace Shrine.
' The 'Archives Deposit'. C.
The a. more extensive series of seal impressions (C) stands in connexion
Deposit' with what, in its final palatial form, has been called the ' Room of the
Archives', in the Domestic Quarter. The 'Ivory Deposit' and other
precious relics found in the spaces immediately below had stood in relation
to this room under its earlier aspect as the 'East Treasury'.3 In an
upper layer of the floor of the same basement chamber—familiarly called
the 'Lair'—and in the adjoining spaces above this more precious deposit
was a stratum containing more or less fragmentary sealings, together with
a few tablets of Class B, which had evidently reached their present posi-
tion owing to the collapse of the floor of the room above. On its Eastern
1 P. of M, ii, Pt. II, pp. SoS, S09. The Revolution, an independent Government came
scene, as shown in Fig. 597 a, c, below, was into power, the Knossian signet-type thus
put together by me by means of overlapping pieced together was adopted for a new postage
pieces of several fragmentary specimens, stamp,
and the whole was subsequently drawn by - .//;., i, p. 154 seqq.
Monsieur E. Gillieton, pere. When, after the 3 See ibid., iii, p. 399 seqq.