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ROCK CHAMBER RE-USED EOR BURIAL
for ritual functions. But the sepulchral chamber excavated in the original
rock face beyond, and now apparently left open to votaries, supplied, as we
have seen, an equivalent shrine for the same baetylic cult.
After an interval of time, however, marked in the building itself by
Fig. 95-i. Bronze Knife with Ivory Plates to Handle a, b, and Razor c:
from Sepulchral Deposit. (|)
Rock
chamber
re-used
for burial.
Pit with
sepulchral
relics.
Ivory
Comb.
the deposit of some good L. M. I b pottery,1 this rock-cut inner pillar crypt
was once more made to serve as a place of burial in addition to its ritual
function.
Near the corner of the vault, to the right of the entrance, was found
a small pit some two and a half feet square and two feet deep, of which an
angle is shown in Fig. 953,2 containing what was clearly a deposit of relics
in a sepulchral connexion.
These relics, which did not themselves include any human remains,
had been a good deal disturbed, but they are shown in a collective form in
Fig. 960. Of objects in precious metals, only a broken gold finger ring of
light fabric was found, with its bezel wanting. Two bronze implements
occurred, the knife (Fig. 954, a, l>) of a usual Late Minoan form, with well-
preserved ivory handle plates, and Fig. 954, c representing another common
type, usually identified with a razor.
An ivory comb, Fig. 955, with the teeth broken off, recalls a class of
objects already well known from Minoan tombs both of Crete and of
1 A good example is supplied by the small " This figure aiso shows the ' cupped block \
'hole-spouted' vase, Fig. 225, p. 290 above, replaced at the foot of the central monolithic
with painted decoration including 'waz-lilies', pillar,
stellate flowers, and an 'adder-mark' border.
ROCK CHAMBER RE-USED EOR BURIAL
for ritual functions. But the sepulchral chamber excavated in the original
rock face beyond, and now apparently left open to votaries, supplied, as we
have seen, an equivalent shrine for the same baetylic cult.
After an interval of time, however, marked in the building itself by
Fig. 95-i. Bronze Knife with Ivory Plates to Handle a, b, and Razor c:
from Sepulchral Deposit. (|)
Rock
chamber
re-used
for burial.
Pit with
sepulchral
relics.
Ivory
Comb.
the deposit of some good L. M. I b pottery,1 this rock-cut inner pillar crypt
was once more made to serve as a place of burial in addition to its ritual
function.
Near the corner of the vault, to the right of the entrance, was found
a small pit some two and a half feet square and two feet deep, of which an
angle is shown in Fig. 953,2 containing what was clearly a deposit of relics
in a sepulchral connexion.
These relics, which did not themselves include any human remains,
had been a good deal disturbed, but they are shown in a collective form in
Fig. 960. Of objects in precious metals, only a broken gold finger ring of
light fabric was found, with its bezel wanting. Two bronze implements
occurred, the knife (Fig. 954, a, l>) of a usual Late Minoan form, with well-
preserved ivory handle plates, and Fig. 954, c representing another common
type, usually identified with a razor.
An ivory comb, Fig. 955, with the teeth broken off, recalls a class of
objects already well known from Minoan tombs both of Crete and of
1 A good example is supplied by the small " This figure aiso shows the ' cupped block \
'hole-spouted' vase, Fig. 225, p. 290 above, replaced at the foot of the central monolithic
with painted decoration including 'waz-lilies', pillar,
stellate flowers, and an 'adder-mark' border.