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)

900 UNFINISHED 'AMPHORA' ON WORKSHOP FLOOR

exquisite egg-shell wares of ceramic polychromy and the varied types f
objects executed in the native faience. Near the great 'amphora' there
stood on the same floor the much smaller example (Fig. 870), of the same
general shape, but without decorative details and with its contours simnlv
roughed out. It was only 25 centimetres (10 inches) high, and its material
was a kind of limestone.

The unfinished state of the stone ' amphoras' on the workshop floor
fits in with the appearance of the neighbouring basement floors, cluttered
with heaps of lime and suggestive of a hasty departure of plasterers enoaaed
in their work. In this region we find on every hand the signs of a sudden
catastrophe. We shall meet with similar phenomena in the case of the
fine alabaslra on the floor of the ' Room of the Throne'. There the vases
remained unfilled, in this case they were never completed.

Fig. 876. Smaller 'Amphora' from 'Sculptor's
Workshop ' as roughed out.