Pendlebury, John D.: The archaeology of Crete: an introduction (London, 1939)

POST-MINOAN CRETE

3r3

Proto-
geomctric

pierced at the top and incised with rough patterns were used
as pendants.1

Crete at this time was almost completely cut off from inter-
course with the world outside the Aegean. A few seals of Foreig
faience with rough hieroglyphs and a string of beads were Relations
found in Tomb i at Vrokastro, and a similar seal comes from
Eleutherna. They belong to the XXth-XXIInd Dynasty.2
A few more objects of faience come from the unpublished
tombs at Knossos. No imports of this date have been found
in Egypt.

Whence comes the vase shown in PI. XLII, i, which was
found in a small burial by the Temple Tomb, I do not know.
The paint is a dull purple, and the shape reminds one of the
predynastic stone vases of Egypt.

It is likewise impossible to say from what part of the Aegean
came the introduction of iron and the new style of dress which
needed the fibula.

The dating for the end of the Sub-Minoan Period is prob- Prob-
ably about 1050, and for that of the Protogeometric Period about cZZwhgv
900 B.C.3

SITES WHERE SUB-MINOAN AND PROTO-
GEOMETRIC REMAINS HAVE BEEN FOUND.

WEST CRETE

(a) Excavated Site

eleutherna . . . Deposit . . At Orthe Petra, W. of the

acropolis, near where the
famous (later) statue was
found. Payne, B.S.A., XXX,
266. Hartley, ibid., XXXI,
108. Egyptian seal. 'E<p. 'Aq%.,
1907, 163.

CENTRAL CRETE

(a) Excavated Sites

Agia paraskeve Tomb . . A.J.A., XL, 371, excavated by

N. Platon, 1935.

amnisos .... Deposit . Marinatos, Arch. Anz., 1935,

245-

anopolis . . . Cemetery . Halbherr, A.J.A., 1897, 254.

1 e.g. ibid., 121 f. 2 Ibid., 136.

3 Schweitzer, Vntersuchungen zur Chronologie der geometrischeii Stile
in Griechenland.