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animal very successfully, if we do not look too carefully into details. Very porti'
few traces remain of the blackish wash that covered it. Height, with the clay objects
horns, -195 m.; length of body -11 m. Whether it was an offering, or what it
was, is uncertain.
(6) Five clay lamps were found. (Plate XXXVII.) Lamps
5091, 5092, 5093. These three are all of much the same shape, an open
flat-bottomed bowl for the oil with a cut through the broad rim to take the
wick, and opposite to it a stick handle projecting from the rim horizontally.
Their walls are thick and the clay heavy. All three are hand-made, and all
show clear marks of fire, which has blackened the burner and the brim near
it. They are about -04 m. high, and the diameter of the oil bowl is from *07 m.
to -08 m.1 Only 5092 has a reddish wash inside and out.
Their fabric and shape give these lamps the appearance of being Early
Minoan, but the shape probably lasted through the Middle Minoan age.
5090. This has a deeper oil bowl and a large loop handle, and the burner
projects to form a nozzle ; altogether a more developed and later shape. Nozzle
and most of the rim are black from burning. Height -045 m., diameter of
opening -055 m.
5094. This is a lamp of a different type standing on a high cylindrical
stem which widens at the base. The open oil receptacle is very shallow. Two
cuts in the brim for wicks opposite one another show marks of burning. Under
the oil chamber is a cavity which is carried up through the side to two projections
on the rim, one of which has a hole and served no doubt to fill the cavity with
a steadying weight of water. There was a red wash all over, but only traces
remain. Height -13 m., upper diameter >125 m.
This lamp is certainly Middle Minoan, and we may look on it as the clay
original from which developed the large stemmed lamps of Late Minoan days.
It was found with a pithos interment.
(7) 5074 (Plate XXXVII). This is an altar or table of offerings of brick- Table of Offerings
red clay with a brown wash on the upper surface. It was put together from
pieces found outside the tholos, and the only missing parts are the three feet.
There is a narrow raised border which projects slightly over the side. Height
without the feet -03 m., diameter -39 m.
That it is a piece of sacred furniture is probable, but its exact use in a
cemetery we cannot tell. Later we shall meet with a piece of a similar table
from a house at Kalathiana (p. 86). Minoan clay tables of offerings, or
altars, on three feet have been found in quantities, both round and rectangular,
of baked clay or of crude clay encased in plaster. They have been found, to
mention only a few places, at Phaestos 2 in both palaces, in the shrine at
Gournia,3 in the house at Chamaizi,4 in the small shrine at Knossos,5 and in
1 For the similar lamp from Tomb E at Hagi'a 3 H. Boyd Hawes, Gournia, p. 48, Plate XI, 7.
Rirene see p. 52, No. 5015, Plate XXXVI a. 4 'E<f>. 'APX. (1906), <re\. 143, IW. 8.
2 Man. Ant., XII, Tav. VIII, and XIV, Tav. 5 B.S.A., VIII, p. 96, fig. 55.
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animal very successfully, if we do not look too carefully into details. Very porti'
few traces remain of the blackish wash that covered it. Height, with the clay objects
horns, -195 m.; length of body -11 m. Whether it was an offering, or what it
was, is uncertain.
(6) Five clay lamps were found. (Plate XXXVII.) Lamps
5091, 5092, 5093. These three are all of much the same shape, an open
flat-bottomed bowl for the oil with a cut through the broad rim to take the
wick, and opposite to it a stick handle projecting from the rim horizontally.
Their walls are thick and the clay heavy. All three are hand-made, and all
show clear marks of fire, which has blackened the burner and the brim near
it. They are about -04 m. high, and the diameter of the oil bowl is from *07 m.
to -08 m.1 Only 5092 has a reddish wash inside and out.
Their fabric and shape give these lamps the appearance of being Early
Minoan, but the shape probably lasted through the Middle Minoan age.
5090. This has a deeper oil bowl and a large loop handle, and the burner
projects to form a nozzle ; altogether a more developed and later shape. Nozzle
and most of the rim are black from burning. Height -045 m., diameter of
opening -055 m.
5094. This is a lamp of a different type standing on a high cylindrical
stem which widens at the base. The open oil receptacle is very shallow. Two
cuts in the brim for wicks opposite one another show marks of burning. Under
the oil chamber is a cavity which is carried up through the side to two projections
on the rim, one of which has a hole and served no doubt to fill the cavity with
a steadying weight of water. There was a red wash all over, but only traces
remain. Height -13 m., upper diameter >125 m.
This lamp is certainly Middle Minoan, and we may look on it as the clay
original from which developed the large stemmed lamps of Late Minoan days.
It was found with a pithos interment.
(7) 5074 (Plate XXXVII). This is an altar or table of offerings of brick- Table of Offerings
red clay with a brown wash on the upper surface. It was put together from
pieces found outside the tholos, and the only missing parts are the three feet.
There is a narrow raised border which projects slightly over the side. Height
without the feet -03 m., diameter -39 m.
That it is a piece of sacred furniture is probable, but its exact use in a
cemetery we cannot tell. Later we shall meet with a piece of a similar table
from a house at Kalathiana (p. 86). Minoan clay tables of offerings, or
altars, on three feet have been found in quantities, both round and rectangular,
of baked clay or of crude clay encased in plaster. They have been found, to
mention only a few places, at Phaestos 2 in both palaces, in the shrine at
Gournia,3 in the house at Chamaizi,4 in the small shrine at Knossos,5 and in
1 For the similar lamp from Tomb E at Hagi'a 3 H. Boyd Hawes, Gournia, p. 48, Plate XI, 7.
Rirene see p. 52, No. 5015, Plate XXXVI a. 4 'E<f>. 'APX. (1906), <re\. 143, IW. 8.
2 Man. Ant., XII, Tav. VIII, and XIV, Tav. 5 B.S.A., VIII, p. 96, fig. 55.
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