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2087 (Plate XXXIX a). This is another very beautiful tumbler, widening porti
at the mouth. It is of black marble streaked with veins of colour. Unfortunately stone objects
the half is missing. Height -055 m., diameter at brim -085 m. Vases
1064 and 1069 (Plate XXXIX a). Two cups with round body and ring-
handle. 1064 is of hard brown stone, 1069 of white limestone. Heights
•05 m., diameters -065 m. and -055 m. respectively.
Besides these there were a fair number of the usual vases of mortar or
bird's nest shape from all parts of the site, one or two of which are seen in
Plate XXXIX a. The material is almost always steatite in one of its various
forms.
(c) Miscellaneous Stone Objects.
1053,1054,1072,1078 (Plate XXXIX a), and 1345. These five small pots Miscellaneous
are much alike, with a round slightly carinated belly, a small offset rim, a small
disc foot, and no handle. All are of steatite except 1345, which is of alabaster.
They vary in height from -025 m. to *035 m., and in diameter from -045 m.
to -06 m.
Now the shape is one of those that resemble Egyptian predynastic and Vases of Egyptian
early dynastic shapes, and it is thought to be a copy of the Egyptian. But Form
the most unmistakable of the Egyptian or Egyptianising vases found in Crete
is, as others have pointed out, No. 1057, a small cylindrical vase of white and
blue limestone widening slightly to the top, with a projecting rim and foot
(Plate XXXIX a). Height -045 m., upper diameter -032 m. Exactly the same
type is found in Egyptian sixth dynasty graves.1 Other identical examples
have been found in Crete : one of similar limestone (663) in the large tholos at
Hagia Triada, and another at Mochlos 2; two more, as we shall see, in the
tombs at Platanos ; and yet another in the tholos of Marathokephalon.3
1056 (Plate XXXIX a). A small double vessel of grey steatite from the
tholos. It is two cups joined, each with a small horizontal spout and horizontal
lug. Height -025 m., combined length -08 m.
2086 (Plate XXXIX a). A jug of bluish steatite not unlike the modern
teapot in shape, save that the trough of the spout is too long and that it lacks
a lid. It has been put together from fragments found in the tholos, and is a
copy of the clay jugs of the Early Minoan and the first Middle Minoan periods
that we saw at Koumasa (Plate XXVI b, 4147, 4107, 4108), and shall meet
again at Drakones (Plate XLI).
2088 (Plate XXXIX a). This small pear-shaped vase with small offset rim
is of a heavy black igneous stone, and is decorated with four incised triangles,
1 Cf. Evans, Palace, pp. 92, 93, and fig. CI, 2 Seager, Mochlos, p. 80, fig. 47, 8; Plate II.
where a vase of identical form is reproduced M 3.
recording Pepi 1*8 Sed-festival, and therefore
exactly dated to 2486 n.c. Cf. also Hall, Ancient 3 'kpx- At At,, to/i. 4, irapaprrjixa, o-tA. 19, (Ik.
Hislon/ of the Near East, p. 82, note 1. 15.
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2087 (Plate XXXIX a). This is another very beautiful tumbler, widening porti
at the mouth. It is of black marble streaked with veins of colour. Unfortunately stone objects
the half is missing. Height -055 m., diameter at brim -085 m. Vases
1064 and 1069 (Plate XXXIX a). Two cups with round body and ring-
handle. 1064 is of hard brown stone, 1069 of white limestone. Heights
•05 m., diameters -065 m. and -055 m. respectively.
Besides these there were a fair number of the usual vases of mortar or
bird's nest shape from all parts of the site, one or two of which are seen in
Plate XXXIX a. The material is almost always steatite in one of its various
forms.
(c) Miscellaneous Stone Objects.
1053,1054,1072,1078 (Plate XXXIX a), and 1345. These five small pots Miscellaneous
are much alike, with a round slightly carinated belly, a small offset rim, a small
disc foot, and no handle. All are of steatite except 1345, which is of alabaster.
They vary in height from -025 m. to *035 m., and in diameter from -045 m.
to -06 m.
Now the shape is one of those that resemble Egyptian predynastic and Vases of Egyptian
early dynastic shapes, and it is thought to be a copy of the Egyptian. But Form
the most unmistakable of the Egyptian or Egyptianising vases found in Crete
is, as others have pointed out, No. 1057, a small cylindrical vase of white and
blue limestone widening slightly to the top, with a projecting rim and foot
(Plate XXXIX a). Height -045 m., upper diameter -032 m. Exactly the same
type is found in Egyptian sixth dynasty graves.1 Other identical examples
have been found in Crete : one of similar limestone (663) in the large tholos at
Hagia Triada, and another at Mochlos 2; two more, as we shall see, in the
tombs at Platanos ; and yet another in the tholos of Marathokephalon.3
1056 (Plate XXXIX a). A small double vessel of grey steatite from the
tholos. It is two cups joined, each with a small horizontal spout and horizontal
lug. Height -025 m., combined length -08 m.
2086 (Plate XXXIX a). A jug of bluish steatite not unlike the modern
teapot in shape, save that the trough of the spout is too long and that it lacks
a lid. It has been put together from fragments found in the tholos, and is a
copy of the clay jugs of the Early Minoan and the first Middle Minoan periods
that we saw at Koumasa (Plate XXVI b, 4147, 4107, 4108), and shall meet
again at Drakones (Plate XLI).
2088 (Plate XXXIX a). This small pear-shaped vase with small offset rim
is of a heavy black igneous stone, and is decorated with four incised triangles,
1 Cf. Evans, Palace, pp. 92, 93, and fig. CI, 2 Seager, Mochlos, p. 80, fig. 47, 8; Plate II.
where a vase of identical form is reproduced M 3.
recording Pepi 1*8 Sed-festival, and therefore
exactly dated to 2486 n.c. Cf. also Hall, Ancient 3 'kpx- At At,, to/i. 4, irapaprrjixa, o-tA. 19, (Ik.
Hislon/ of the Near East, p. 82, note 1. 15.