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 4,2): Camp-stool Fresco, long-robed priests and beneficent genii [...] (London, 1935)

MINOAN COMPARISONS OF RAS-SHAMRA VESSELS 777

Enkomi,1 absolutely conforms to the Knossian traditions. The ' rhyton' with
the bull's head in relief (Fig. 756, It), though unique in this respect, shows
a decided relation to the fluted stone vessels of the kind from the Central

Fig. 75G. Painted 'Rhytons' (a, b) and 'Stirrup Vase', c, from Minet-el-Beida.

Treasury,2 at Knossos (see Fig. 760, c), while an analogy for the projecting
animal's head is supplied by the earlier L. M. I a rhyton, from Palaikastro3
with the long-horned agriml's head rising from its shoulder. Fig. 756, c, on
the other hand, a large' stirrup vase', from the extensive ' Enceinte Deposit','1
with its dark reddish ground and spiraliform ornament laid on in white,
might at first sight recall one of the M. M. Ill b jars from the 'Temple
Repositories'. The tradition is clear, but the 'stirrup vase' type itself
indicates a somewhat later date. In the same way the alabaster vase5

E.g. B.M. Excavs., p. 40, Fig. 68, no. rogi
(Tomb 69).

Otherwise known as the' StoneVase Room'.

1 Cf. P. of AJ., ii, Pt. II, p. 537, Fig. 341,

where a comparison is also drawn with the

similar head rising from the top of a vessel

among the gifts from Kefliu-land on the
Rekhmava Tomb.

■' Schaeffer, Fouilks lie Minct-d-Beida et de
Ras-Shamm (1931), Syria, xiii, PI. VII, 1 and
pp. 5, 6.

1 //'., PI. IV, 4 and p. 3.