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7S0 MOUTH-PIECE OE FAIENCE ' RHYTON ' FROM ASHUR

of a veined limestone, of marble-like aspect (Fig. 760, c), found amongst th
offertory vessels of the Central Sanctuary at Knossos presenting 0n its bod/
arched flutings reduplicated, a characteristic kind of Minoan decoration tint



Faience
mouth-
piece
from
Ashur
akin to
Knossian.

Fig. 760. a, Separate Faience Mouth-piece of ' Rhyton ', Ashur ; i, similar of Marble-
lire Limestone, Knossos ; c, the whole Vessel.

has a considerably earlier history. The separate mouth-piece of this vase is
shown in Fig. 760/, and the whole vessel
inc. I twill be seen at once that the faience
specimen from Ashur, Fig. 7GO, a, bears
a distinct resemblance to it. The bosses
that are visible within the mouth of this,
suggestive of repousse work, may, indeed,
be taken to show that the immediate
model from which this faience object was
taken, was, as so often the case, of metal-
work. But it cannot be doubted that it
approximates to Fig. 760, b, and its fabric
could not safely be brought down later
than the middle of the Fifteenth Cen-
tury is.c. There can be no question of bringing it down to the date of the
'woman's head' goblets from the same site, which, like the similar relics from
Ras-Shamra, are shown by the parallel find of E nkomi to be of Ramesside date.
some two centuries later. On the Cretan side, it may be here recalled that
a part of a faience vessel, Fig. 761., presenting the same kind of reduplicated

Fig. 701. Tart of Faience
Vessel from M. M. Ill b Stratum,
S.E. Palace Ancle, Knossos.