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POST-MINOAN CRETE
323
of a lion, a lion and an eagle, and two lions devouring a stag.1
The old Minoan spirit had not quite died out. It only needed
a fresh impetus, which in this case seems to have come from
the islands and from Melos in particular.
No foreign import can be dated with certainty to this period.
The fine bronze statuette of Amen-Ra from the Diktaian Cave
belongs most probably to the same deposit as the rest of the
bronzes, but its date has been put as early as XVIIIth to
XlXth Dynasty, and as late as the Saite Period.2 Crete, in-
deed, seems to have been in a backwater at this time, though
imported Attic vases appear at Knossos and Vrokastro.3 The
nearest parallels to the pottery have been found in Rhodes for
Central Crete and Thessaly for East Crete.4
The most probable dating for the end of the true Geometric
Period is about 700 in the East, and about 750 in Central
Crete, where it was followed by a transitional semi-orientalizing
period, to be described in the next chapter, for which we may
allow about fifty years.
Geometric
Foreign
Relations
Geometric
Chronology
SITES WHERE GEOMETRIC REMAINS HAVE
WEST CRETE
ELEUTHERNA . .
KHANIA .
GAVDHOS
TRAKHILA
BEEN FOUND
(a) Excavated Sites
Deposit . At Orthe Petra, W. of the
acropolis. Payne, B.S.A.,
XXX, 266 ; Hartley, ibid.,
XXXI, 109.
Cemetery . Graves in the main road
nearTouzla. Stavropoulos,
J.H.S., 1929, 235.
(b) Surface Finds
Sherds at Karavi. Levi, Art and Archaeology,
1927, 176 ff.
Sherds seen by the writer, 1935.
*-B.M. Catalogue of Gems, 180, 181, 183.
" J.H.S., LI I, 126. Aegyptiaca, No. 15, and Journal des Savants,
1931, 326.
3 Vrokastro, PI. XXVI. B.S.A., XXXI, 89, 92.
4 Ibid., XXIX, 272, 277 ; XXXI, 105. Prehistoric Thessaly,
323
of a lion, a lion and an eagle, and two lions devouring a stag.1
The old Minoan spirit had not quite died out. It only needed
a fresh impetus, which in this case seems to have come from
the islands and from Melos in particular.
No foreign import can be dated with certainty to this period.
The fine bronze statuette of Amen-Ra from the Diktaian Cave
belongs most probably to the same deposit as the rest of the
bronzes, but its date has been put as early as XVIIIth to
XlXth Dynasty, and as late as the Saite Period.2 Crete, in-
deed, seems to have been in a backwater at this time, though
imported Attic vases appear at Knossos and Vrokastro.3 The
nearest parallels to the pottery have been found in Rhodes for
Central Crete and Thessaly for East Crete.4
The most probable dating for the end of the true Geometric
Period is about 700 in the East, and about 750 in Central
Crete, where it was followed by a transitional semi-orientalizing
period, to be described in the next chapter, for which we may
allow about fifty years.
Geometric
Foreign
Relations
Geometric
Chronology
SITES WHERE GEOMETRIC REMAINS HAVE
WEST CRETE
ELEUTHERNA . .
KHANIA .
GAVDHOS
TRAKHILA
BEEN FOUND
(a) Excavated Sites
Deposit . At Orthe Petra, W. of the
acropolis. Payne, B.S.A.,
XXX, 266 ; Hartley, ibid.,
XXXI, 109.
Cemetery . Graves in the main road
nearTouzla. Stavropoulos,
J.H.S., 1929, 235.
(b) Surface Finds
Sherds at Karavi. Levi, Art and Archaeology,
1927, 176 ff.
Sherds seen by the writer, 1935.
*-B.M. Catalogue of Gems, 180, 181, 183.
" J.H.S., LI I, 126. Aegyptiaca, No. 15, and Journal des Savants,
1931, 326.
3 Vrokastro, PI. XXVI. B.S.A., XXXI, 89, 92.
4 Ibid., XXIX, 272, 277 ; XXXI, 105. Prehistoric Thessaly,