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THE VAULTED TOMBS OF MESARA
the On the other peak it would appear that there was a Middle Minoan shrine,
settlement m which were found the objects shown in Plate XXXIII, viz. four cylindrical
Shrine clay figures (5002, 5003, 5004, 5005) which resemble the well-known figures
from the sanctuary of Gournia,1 and those from Prinia,2 another long, conical
figure (5001), a fragment of a sacred table of clay (5020) like the sacred table
from the Middle Minoan shrine at Phaestos,3 a sacred vessel of stone like
No. 188 from the same shrine,4 a stone object (1018) like a pulley, perhaps a
baetyl, and a few Middle Minoan clay vases (e.g. 5011, 5006, 5025, and 5026).
I am reserving the discussion of this building and its sacred contents for
another place.
1 H. Boyd Hawes, Gournia, pp. 47-48, Plate XI, 3 Mon. Ant., XIV, p. 482 (cstratto, p. 178, fig.
cult objects. 88 a, b, c).
2 Atk. Mitt., XXVI, S. 247, figs. 1-5, Taf. XII. * Ibid., p. 479, fig- 87.
THE VAULTED TOMBS OF MESARA
the On the other peak it would appear that there was a Middle Minoan shrine,
settlement m which were found the objects shown in Plate XXXIII, viz. four cylindrical
Shrine clay figures (5002, 5003, 5004, 5005) which resemble the well-known figures
from the sanctuary of Gournia,1 and those from Prinia,2 another long, conical
figure (5001), a fragment of a sacred table of clay (5020) like the sacred table
from the Middle Minoan shrine at Phaestos,3 a sacred vessel of stone like
No. 188 from the same shrine,4 a stone object (1018) like a pulley, perhaps a
baetyl, and a few Middle Minoan clay vases (e.g. 5011, 5006, 5025, and 5026).
I am reserving the discussion of this building and its sacred contents for
another place.
1 H. Boyd Hawes, Gournia, pp. 47-48, Plate XI, 3 Mon. Ant., XIV, p. 482 (cstratto, p. 178, fig.
cult objects. 88 a, b, c).
2 Atk. Mitt., XXVI, S. 247, figs. 1-5, Taf. XII. * Ibid., p. 479, fig- 87.