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934 REMAINS PARALLEL TO OTHER M. M. Ill TREASURES
Loculus with Remains of Egyptian Faience, Lafis Lazuli, &c.
Niche in What must be regarded as an integral part of the same Treasure
further which in this case had fallen more directly from the floor above, was dis'
relics. covered in a small niche or loculus made in the wall to the rio-ht 0f ji
Throne, in the North-East corner of the Room, just above the gypsum
bench. Worked into this were some pieces of brilliant blue and oreen
faience, or porcelaine tendre, from its style certainly of Egyptian fabric
some further pieces of rock crystal for inlaying and others of lapis lazuli
together with fragments of a large vessel of amethystine spar, with traces of
carving, that showed that it had belonged to some larger objet dart. With
these was also found a good deal of gold-foil, the segregated position in which
this part of the deposit lay having preserved it from the treasure-seekers
who seem to have overhauled the relics in the Lustral Basin.
It will be seen that this whole deposit, including" objects in a variety of
choice materials and of singular beauty—more than one of them unique in
the history of Art—is inseparable in many of its characteristic forms from
a group of hoards brought to light in both Palace sections and belongino-
Relics all to the Great Transitional epoch of the close of M. M. Ill b. Taking the
III<date. Later Palace in the broadest sense of the word as having owed its
essential features to the Great Rebuilding at the close of M. M. Ill, we
may set these surviving relics of the minor arts beside the high reliefs of the
Northern Portico and the Great East Hall as representing a direct in-
heritance from the Great Age. If, as it seems, these were stored in this
more recent structure either in the chamber immediately above that of the
Throne, or, as might seem more probable, in some adjoining Treasury
repository, we are bound to conclude that, down to the last days of the
Palace, they were still available for the delectation or use of the Priest-
kings of what has been here regarded as a later dynasty.
As the remains—of which only the merest fraction have survived to
us—included, not to speak of inlaid caskets, more than one of the
magnificent ivory and gold gaming-tables at that time in vogue, with their
crystal and faience incrustations, besides what may have been a panoply ol
royal arms, they must together have occupied considerable space. 1 he
present adaptation of the loggia, from which they seem to have been
precipitated, for the exhibition of replicas of frescoes and of other artistic
relics belonging to the building may itself find some warrant in Min°an
precedent.
Loculus with Remains of Egyptian Faience, Lafis Lazuli, &c.
Niche in What must be regarded as an integral part of the same Treasure
further which in this case had fallen more directly from the floor above, was dis'
relics. covered in a small niche or loculus made in the wall to the rio-ht 0f ji
Throne, in the North-East corner of the Room, just above the gypsum
bench. Worked into this were some pieces of brilliant blue and oreen
faience, or porcelaine tendre, from its style certainly of Egyptian fabric
some further pieces of rock crystal for inlaying and others of lapis lazuli
together with fragments of a large vessel of amethystine spar, with traces of
carving, that showed that it had belonged to some larger objet dart. With
these was also found a good deal of gold-foil, the segregated position in which
this part of the deposit lay having preserved it from the treasure-seekers
who seem to have overhauled the relics in the Lustral Basin.
It will be seen that this whole deposit, including" objects in a variety of
choice materials and of singular beauty—more than one of them unique in
the history of Art—is inseparable in many of its characteristic forms from
a group of hoards brought to light in both Palace sections and belongino-
Relics all to the Great Transitional epoch of the close of M. M. Ill b. Taking the
III<date. Later Palace in the broadest sense of the word as having owed its
essential features to the Great Rebuilding at the close of M. M. Ill, we
may set these surviving relics of the minor arts beside the high reliefs of the
Northern Portico and the Great East Hall as representing a direct in-
heritance from the Great Age. If, as it seems, these were stored in this
more recent structure either in the chamber immediately above that of the
Throne, or, as might seem more probable, in some adjoining Treasury
repository, we are bound to conclude that, down to the last days of the
Palace, they were still available for the delectation or use of the Priest-
kings of what has been here regarded as a later dynasty.
As the remains—of which only the merest fraction have survived to
us—included, not to speak of inlaid caskets, more than one of the
magnificent ivory and gold gaming-tables at that time in vogue, with their
crystal and faience incrustations, besides what may have been a panoply ol
royal arms, they must together have occupied considerable space. 1 he
present adaptation of the loggia, from which they seem to have been
precipitated, for the exhibition of replicas of frescoes and of other artistic
relics belonging to the building may itself find some warrant in Min°an
precedent.