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126 THE ARCHAEOLOGY OF CRETE
petras .
petsophas.
pseira
sphoungaras
vasilike .
zakros
kalamafka
piskokephali
prodhromos
botzanou
Deposit . Vase from below later house.
Bosanquet, B.S.A., VIII, 282.
Other vases. B.M. Cat., I,
A. S°7-9-
Sanctuary . Vases and figurines. Myres,
B. S.A., IX, 356.
Settlement . Houses and contents of first town.
Seager, Pseira, 9, iS.
Burials . . Larnax and pithos burials. Hall,
Sphoungaras, 56.
Settlement . Houses, &c. Seager, Trans. Penn.
Univ., II, 113.
Sanctuary . Votive figurines from overhanging
rock at Apano Zakros. P.ofM.,
I> 151-
(b) Surface Finds
Sherd from Kephalovrysis at the top of the
village, seen by the writer, 1935.
Walls and sherds seen by Evans. Diary, 12/4/94.
Figurines. Marinatos, J.H.S., 1932, 255.
Libation vase found here. Evans, J.H.S., 1894,
279.
2. MIDDLE MINOAN II (M.M.Il)
(See Map 8)
This period, as has already been said, is a purely Knossian
and Phaistian one.1 When the Minoan chronology was first
drawn up, M.M.n included much of what we now call M.M.16,
and as a result the list of sites where it has been discovered
must be treated with caution. Naturally, provincial sites im-
ported vases of the latest fashion from the great centres when-
ever they could, but it was only the most important which could
afford to do so, and these imports are found either in a stratum
with M.M.i vases or sometimes in a little deposit by them-
selves as if they were special treasures. Sacred caves such as
Kamarais, the Diktaian cave, and Trapeza, naturally were given
the best. The seal stones from Sto Dhaso and Kedhri in East
Crete need not surprise us, for they are easily transported ;
nor need the inscriptions at Mallia, for the importance of
writing was greater than mere objects. The deposit at Koup-
honisi where quantities of murex shells were found may well
be the relics of a royal industry, for the towering importance
1 Cf. page 94, n. 2, above for the evidence that elsewhere the
M.M.i style of pottery continued down to M.M.iii.
petras .
petsophas.
pseira
sphoungaras
vasilike .
zakros
kalamafka
piskokephali
prodhromos
botzanou
Deposit . Vase from below later house.
Bosanquet, B.S.A., VIII, 282.
Other vases. B.M. Cat., I,
A. S°7-9-
Sanctuary . Vases and figurines. Myres,
B. S.A., IX, 356.
Settlement . Houses and contents of first town.
Seager, Pseira, 9, iS.
Burials . . Larnax and pithos burials. Hall,
Sphoungaras, 56.
Settlement . Houses, &c. Seager, Trans. Penn.
Univ., II, 113.
Sanctuary . Votive figurines from overhanging
rock at Apano Zakros. P.ofM.,
I> 151-
(b) Surface Finds
Sherd from Kephalovrysis at the top of the
village, seen by the writer, 1935.
Walls and sherds seen by Evans. Diary, 12/4/94.
Figurines. Marinatos, J.H.S., 1932, 255.
Libation vase found here. Evans, J.H.S., 1894,
279.
2. MIDDLE MINOAN II (M.M.Il)
(See Map 8)
This period, as has already been said, is a purely Knossian
and Phaistian one.1 When the Minoan chronology was first
drawn up, M.M.n included much of what we now call M.M.16,
and as a result the list of sites where it has been discovered
must be treated with caution. Naturally, provincial sites im-
ported vases of the latest fashion from the great centres when-
ever they could, but it was only the most important which could
afford to do so, and these imports are found either in a stratum
with M.M.i vases or sometimes in a little deposit by them-
selves as if they were special treasures. Sacred caves such as
Kamarais, the Diktaian cave, and Trapeza, naturally were given
the best. The seal stones from Sto Dhaso and Kedhri in East
Crete need not surprise us, for they are easily transported ;
nor need the inscriptions at Mallia, for the importance of
writing was greater than mere objects. The deposit at Koup-
honisi where quantities of murex shells were found may well
be the relics of a royal industry, for the towering importance
1 Cf. page 94, n. 2, above for the evidence that elsewhere the
M.M.i style of pottery continued down to M.M.iii.