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)

•CUPPED BLOCKS-PREHtSTORIC EGYPTIAN 98l
ends, there is no direct evidence of the borings that characterise the ends
of the Hierakonpohs block, and in one form 01. anQther ^ £££&

Fie. 910. ' Cupped Blocks ' prom Late Prehistoric Deposit below Later Temple, at
Hiekakonpolis ; a, b, Limestone ; c, Pottery.

what may be regarded as a derivative class found in parallel Nilotic and
Early Minoan deposits (see Fig. 941).' It must therefore be left a moot
point whether, as probably in the other cases, it was used tor suspension -
In any case the block front the Temple Tomb may with great probability
be regarded as of somewhat earlier date than that front the pre-dynast,c
Egyptian deposit.

Deriva-
tives of
similar
blocks in
Early
Minoan
ossuaries.

1 In the'parallel Nilotic type, Fig. 941, c, and
the specimens from the Mesara ossuaries, e,
/, the holes are in the middle of the block,
though differently arranged in the two cases.

2 The clay specimen from Hierakonpolis,
Fig. 940, c, shows no signs of having been used
for suspension.

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