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)

FAIENCE IMPORTS: A ' MOUTH-PIECE' FROM ASHUR 779

Middle Minoan Period at Knossos1 (Fig. 759,c),but specimens from Phaestos
(Fi°'- 759.D) seem to 'De Dest referred to L. M. I. There is at least one good
piece of evidence from the last quarter of the Sixteenth Century B.C. and

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Fig. 759. Evolution of Minoan Pedestalled Vase of Painted Clay from Egyptian
Alabastron and Stand, a, of the XIIth Dynasty ; b, Egyptian Clay Form, Buhen ;
c, M. M. Ilia, Knossos; d, Phaestos; e,Knossos, above Ivory Deposit.

the first half of the Fifteenth—by the time, that is, when the envoys from
Keftiu-Iand were making their offerings to the Viziers of Hatshepsut and
Thothmes III—that Minoan artistic products were already penetrating from
the Syrian coast to the Euphrates.

' Mouth-piece of Faience ' Rhyton' of Minoan Fabric from Ashur.

Among the faience relics from Ashur is the separate mouth-piece of
a type of ' rhyton ' of the ' elongated' class,2 such as is seen in the hands
of the tribute bearers on the Rekhmara tomb, c. 1450 B.C. 'Rhytons'
with the rim and neck in one piece detached from the body, into which it
is made to fit, are already represented by steatite examples dating from the
transitional M. M. Ill—L. M. I a epoch, at which time composite fabrics of
various kinds were much in vogue. Probably of L.M. I b date is the specimen

P. of M., iii, pp. 402, 403, and Fig. 267 ; of this class by successive stages from earlier
reproduced here in Fig. 759. vessels in the shape of ostrich eggs, see P. of

" For the derivation of the Minoan' rhytons' M., ii, Pt. I, p. 225, Fig. 129.

Mouth-
piece of
faience
' rhyton'
from

Ashur, of
Minoan
fabric.