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778 PEDESTALLED ALABASTER VASE OF MINOAN TYPE
(Fig. 757) represents a Minoan creation—derived from a painted Middl
Kingdom Egyptian alabastron, with its stand incorporated and handle
added, more Credo?1 (cf. Fig. 759 a). That this alabaster type in a slivhtlv
developed form survived into
the succeeding Age is well
established by a four-handled
variant of it imperfectly pre-
served in the Cairo Museum
(Fig. 75S a). This is en-
FlG.
57. ' Alabaster ' Vase,
Minet-el-Beida.
Fig. 758 b. Inscription on
Alabastron, Fig. 758 a, show-
ing Cartouche of Queen
Hatshepsut.
Fig. 758 a. Alabaster Vase
in Cairo Museum.
graved with the cartouche of Queen Hatshepsut (Fig. 758 <5).3 Its form
and handles are of Minoan style, and it may be approximately referred to
the close of the Sixteenth Century is.c.
A parallel type of pedestalled vase in painted clay, but with horizontally
set and more prominent handles, can be traced back well into thelhird
1 See on this my observations, J3, of M., i,
pp. 416, 417 and Figs. 301, 302, and compare
Id., iii, pp. 402, 403, and Fig. 267 : reproduced
here in Fig. 759. Dr. H. R. Hall, who has re-
produced the vase (Fig. 758tf) in his Civilization
of Greece in the Bronze Age, p. 200, Fig. 261,
describes it as possibly of' foreign marble', and
compares the handles with those of ' pithoid!
Minoan 'amphoras' and jars {P. of Ml, ii,
Pt II, p. 422 seqq.), the essential feature of
which, however, is the two or more rows, such
as that depicted in Senmut's tomb. The real,
composite prototype is there missed. A good
example of the true Egyptian type of alabaster
'amphora'—which has no handles—is given
by Fr. W. von Bissirig, Cat. Gen. des Antiqidtei
an Muse'e de Caire, Steingefasse, No. 1837'.''
PI. IV.
3 From a photograph kindly supplied me by
the Director of Cairo Museum.
(Fig. 757) represents a Minoan creation—derived from a painted Middl
Kingdom Egyptian alabastron, with its stand incorporated and handle
added, more Credo?1 (cf. Fig. 759 a). That this alabaster type in a slivhtlv
developed form survived into
the succeeding Age is well
established by a four-handled
variant of it imperfectly pre-
served in the Cairo Museum
(Fig. 75S a). This is en-
FlG.
57. ' Alabaster ' Vase,
Minet-el-Beida.
Fig. 758 b. Inscription on
Alabastron, Fig. 758 a, show-
ing Cartouche of Queen
Hatshepsut.
Fig. 758 a. Alabaster Vase
in Cairo Museum.
graved with the cartouche of Queen Hatshepsut (Fig. 758 <5).3 Its form
and handles are of Minoan style, and it may be approximately referred to
the close of the Sixteenth Century is.c.
A parallel type of pedestalled vase in painted clay, but with horizontally
set and more prominent handles, can be traced back well into thelhird
1 See on this my observations, J3, of M., i,
pp. 416, 417 and Figs. 301, 302, and compare
Id., iii, pp. 402, 403, and Fig. 267 : reproduced
here in Fig. 759. Dr. H. R. Hall, who has re-
produced the vase (Fig. 758tf) in his Civilization
of Greece in the Bronze Age, p. 200, Fig. 261,
describes it as possibly of' foreign marble', and
compares the handles with those of ' pithoid!
Minoan 'amphoras' and jars {P. of Ml, ii,
Pt II, p. 422 seqq.), the essential feature of
which, however, is the two or more rows, such
as that depicted in Senmut's tomb. The real,
composite prototype is there missed. A good
example of the true Egyptian type of alabaster
'amphora'—which has no handles—is given
by Fr. W. von Bissirig, Cat. Gen. des Antiqidtei
an Muse'e de Caire, Steingefasse, No. 1837'.''
PI. IV.
3 From a photograph kindly supplied me by
the Director of Cairo Museum.