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edith h. hall-excavations in eastern crete.
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the sealing surface must be regarded as the prototype of those
representations of goddesses standing between animals or birds
heraldically placed, which are so charac-
teristic of Cretan culture.
2. Ivory seal with curved top and
geometric design on the sealing surface
(Fig.. 25, b).
This seal is similar to one from a
house on Mochlos.1 It may be compared,
also, to two unpublished seals from Agia
Triada (Nos. 463 and 438 in the Candia
Mu seum Catalog), and to a seal published
in Mem. R. 1st. Lomb., 1904, Vol. XXI,
Tav. X.
3. Small ivory spindle whorl.
4. Ivory idol (head missing) like
those from Koumasa and one from Agia
Triada published in Mem. R. 1st. Lomb.,
1904, Vol. XXI, Tav. XI, lower row, sec-
ond from the right end.
5. Bronze tweezers or snuffers (Fig. 26).
6. Triton shells.
Fig. 25.—Early Minoan ii
Ivory Seals. Scale 2:3.
Fig. 26.—Bronze Tweezers from Early Minoan Deposit A. Scale 2:3.
EARLY MINOAN DEPOSIT B
The other Early Minoan deposit on the Sphoungaras hill began
at a point one metre from the opening of the rock-shelter and ex-
tended west along the cliff and then south over the small neolithic
stratum described on p. 46. A part of this area had been already
explored by Mrs. Hawes and had yielded a number of vases.4
lA. J. A., XIII (1909), p. 280.
2 See Transactions, Vol. I, Part III, p. 179 f., and Gournia, p. 56. The vases here pub-
lished must now, in thj light of subsequent excavations, be regarded as Early Minoan II, not
as Earlv Minoan I.
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the sealing surface must be regarded as the prototype of those
representations of goddesses standing between animals or birds
heraldically placed, which are so charac-
teristic of Cretan culture.
2. Ivory seal with curved top and
geometric design on the sealing surface
(Fig.. 25, b).
This seal is similar to one from a
house on Mochlos.1 It may be compared,
also, to two unpublished seals from Agia
Triada (Nos. 463 and 438 in the Candia
Mu seum Catalog), and to a seal published
in Mem. R. 1st. Lomb., 1904, Vol. XXI,
Tav. X.
3. Small ivory spindle whorl.
4. Ivory idol (head missing) like
those from Koumasa and one from Agia
Triada published in Mem. R. 1st. Lomb.,
1904, Vol. XXI, Tav. XI, lower row, sec-
ond from the right end.
5. Bronze tweezers or snuffers (Fig. 26).
6. Triton shells.
Fig. 25.—Early Minoan ii
Ivory Seals. Scale 2:3.
Fig. 26.—Bronze Tweezers from Early Minoan Deposit A. Scale 2:3.
EARLY MINOAN DEPOSIT B
The other Early Minoan deposit on the Sphoungaras hill began
at a point one metre from the opening of the rock-shelter and ex-
tended west along the cliff and then south over the small neolithic
stratum described on p. 46. A part of this area had been already
explored by Mrs. Hawes and had yielded a number of vases.4
lA. J. A., XIII (1909), p. 280.
2 See Transactions, Vol. I, Part III, p. 179 f., and Gournia, p. 56. The vases here pub-
lished must now, in thj light of subsequent excavations, be regarded as Early Minoan II, not
as Earlv Minoan I.