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TOMBS OF RAS-SHAMRA COMPARED WITH ISOPATA 77!
Nahr-el-Kebir to Aleppo and Mesopotamia or to Hama and Horns,1 and it Opposite
was, doubtless, in this way that specimens of the fine fabrics of faience and saCi"
porcelains tendre, equally well represented in the richest tombs of Salamis and link
and of Minet-el-Beida,2 penetrated to the Euphrates. The most charac- phrates:
teristic of these, the goblets presenting what may best be regarded as the cypro"0'
r,nddess's face with Hathoric head-piece, were, in fact, found in the early Minoan
J faience
Ishtar Temple at Assur.3 trade.
Structural Identity of the Corbelled Tombs of Minet-el-Beida and Ras-
Shamra with the Royal Tomb of Isopata and Allied Cretan Group.
The tombs containing Minoan relics brought to light at Minet-el-Beida Structural
and by the Library site on the neighbouring akropolis of Ras-Shamra afford, details of
not only in their general structure, but in the characteristic details connected g,as"
with them, direct and surprising evidence of a connexion with Knossos itself. Tombs
They throw, indeed, a retrospective light on certain details in the construe- with
tion of the Royal Tomb at Isopata4 that had not hitherto been explained. p0f,of
The general architectural resemblance presented by the Ras-Shamra Tomb at
group, with their keeled vaults, to the Isopata Tomb in its original aspect
was recognized by their excavator.5 There, too, we see, on a somewhat
lesser scale, rectangular built chambers approached by a descending dromos, openings
with high corbelled vaults more or less ' lanceolate' in section. But a '"
remarkable feature in their structure carries this general resemblance to connected
1 See Professor Dussaud's comprehensive historic Tombs of Knossos, i, Quaritch, roo6
survey, Syria, x, p. 21. {Archaeoiogia, lix), p. 136 seqq.
■ For Tomb VI, see Professor Claude F.-A. r' Claude F.-A. Schaeffer, Fouilks de'Minel-
Schaeffer, Syria, xiv (1933), Pt. ii, p. 105 seqq. el-Beida et de Ras-Shamra (ro2o), Syria, x,
and Plates XI, XII. p. 29T, n. 2. So far as corbelled keel vaulting
:i Itdoesnotfrndaplacein Andrae,;lrch<iisehe goes, attention has also been drawn by Dr.
Ischtar-Tempel in Ass/or, or in Farbige Keramih Einar Gjerstad {Summary of Swedish Excava-
aus Assur (1923). See, however, H. R. Hall tio/is in Cyprus, Syria, x, see p. 65), to the
{J. H. S., xlvitt, 1928), p. 64 seqq., who makes structure of the great tomb, with dromos and
good the Cypro-Minoan claim to be the descending staircase, at Trahonas. Built tombs
source of the ' woman-head cups '. Those of of oblong form with the upper part of the side
Assur, which might be regarded as rather walls corbelled and roofed by large slabs were
degenerate copies of the best of Enkomi and found at Enkomi {B.M. Excavs., &c, p. 5,
Ras-Shamra, are from the Ishtar temple, reputed Fig. 5). The evidence, however, of the
to date from the time of Tukulti-Enurta I characteristic 'blind openings' and 'blind
\c. 1260-123S ft.a). wells' does not seem as yet to be forthcoming
* For the Isopata Tomb see A. E., The Pre- in Cyprus.
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Nahr-el-Kebir to Aleppo and Mesopotamia or to Hama and Horns,1 and it Opposite
was, doubtless, in this way that specimens of the fine fabrics of faience and saCi"
porcelains tendre, equally well represented in the richest tombs of Salamis and link
and of Minet-el-Beida,2 penetrated to the Euphrates. The most charac- phrates:
teristic of these, the goblets presenting what may best be regarded as the cypro"0'
r,nddess's face with Hathoric head-piece, were, in fact, found in the early Minoan
J faience
Ishtar Temple at Assur.3 trade.
Structural Identity of the Corbelled Tombs of Minet-el-Beida and Ras-
Shamra with the Royal Tomb of Isopata and Allied Cretan Group.
The tombs containing Minoan relics brought to light at Minet-el-Beida Structural
and by the Library site on the neighbouring akropolis of Ras-Shamra afford, details of
not only in their general structure, but in the characteristic details connected g,as"
with them, direct and surprising evidence of a connexion with Knossos itself. Tombs
They throw, indeed, a retrospective light on certain details in the construe- with
tion of the Royal Tomb at Isopata4 that had not hitherto been explained. p0f,of
The general architectural resemblance presented by the Ras-Shamra Tomb at
group, with their keeled vaults, to the Isopata Tomb in its original aspect
was recognized by their excavator.5 There, too, we see, on a somewhat
lesser scale, rectangular built chambers approached by a descending dromos, openings
with high corbelled vaults more or less ' lanceolate' in section. But a '"
remarkable feature in their structure carries this general resemblance to connected
1 See Professor Dussaud's comprehensive historic Tombs of Knossos, i, Quaritch, roo6
survey, Syria, x, p. 21. {Archaeoiogia, lix), p. 136 seqq.
■ For Tomb VI, see Professor Claude F.-A. r' Claude F.-A. Schaeffer, Fouilks de'Minel-
Schaeffer, Syria, xiv (1933), Pt. ii, p. 105 seqq. el-Beida et de Ras-Shamra (ro2o), Syria, x,
and Plates XI, XII. p. 29T, n. 2. So far as corbelled keel vaulting
:i Itdoesnotfrndaplacein Andrae,;lrch<iisehe goes, attention has also been drawn by Dr.
Ischtar-Tempel in Ass/or, or in Farbige Keramih Einar Gjerstad {Summary of Swedish Excava-
aus Assur (1923). See, however, H. R. Hall tio/is in Cyprus, Syria, x, see p. 65), to the
{J. H. S., xlvitt, 1928), p. 64 seqq., who makes structure of the great tomb, with dromos and
good the Cypro-Minoan claim to be the descending staircase, at Trahonas. Built tombs
source of the ' woman-head cups '. Those of of oblong form with the upper part of the side
Assur, which might be regarded as rather walls corbelled and roofed by large slabs were
degenerate copies of the best of Enkomi and found at Enkomi {B.M. Excavs., &c, p. 5,
Ras-Shamra, are from the Ishtar temple, reputed Fig. 5). The evidence, however, of the
to date from the time of Tukulti-Enurta I characteristic 'blind openings' and 'blind
\c. 1260-123S ft.a). wells' does not seem as yet to be forthcoming
* For the Isopata Tomb see A. E., The Pre- in Cyprus.
IV** o E