Xanthudidēs, Stephanos A.: The vaulted tombs of Mesará : an account of some early cemeteries of southern Crete (London, 1924)

INDEX

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Abyssinia, obsidian from .... 105
Altar, clay. See Objects found : Tables of offer-
ings.

Amber. See Objects found.
Amorgos—

Ritual vase ...... 40

Spiral pattern . . . . . .102

Stone figures . . . . . 23, 24

Amulets (ivory and stone). See Objects found.
Analyses of amber ...... 69

„ of daggers . ix, 26, 27, 46, 66, 82,107
„ of earth from burial stratum . . 89
Applique wire ornament .... 82,110

Arkalochori cave ...... 109

Asia Minor, influence on Crete . . . 131

B

Babylonian connection with Crete . . x, 117
„ cylinder . . . . .116
Beads (faience, gold, stone). See Objects found.

,, worn as necklaces . . . .124
Bissing, Freiherr von ..... 68

Bosanquet, Prof. R. C.....31, 105

Bull-ring in E.M. period .... 40
Burial—

Contracted attitude .

In cists (larnakes)

„ pithoi .

„ small square buildings

„ tholoi .

Inhumation—
No proof of cremation xii, 6, 90, 129, 135

Burial enclosures ...... 32

Burials, Roman . . . . . . 4,7

Byblos (Phoenicia), obsidian from . . . 105

O

Canea, Public Laboratory . . 26,82,89,107

Celts. See Objects found (stone).

Chaeronea ware ...... 37

Chatzedakis, Dr. J. 40, 106, 109,113

Cheese dairies, modern vaulted . . xii, 136
Chrysokamina, copper slag heaps . . .27
Civilisation, Early and Middle Minoan . . 132
Cloisonne ornament ..... 29

xii, 128
. xii, 51, 76
. 55, 76, 128
. 55, 66, 93
7, 34, 56, 134-5

Copper objects. See Objects found. page
„ or bronze ? ix, 26, 27,107

„ source of . . . . . .27

Corbelling—method of building tholoi . . 4

Cretan figurines. See Objects found (stone).

Cutters. See Objects found (copper).

Cyclades, influence on Crete x, 130

' Gycladic ' figurines. See Objects found (stone).

' Cyclopean ' wall ...... 49

D

Daggers (copper and silver). See Objects found.

,, fashion of wearing . . . 27, 133

Dawkins, Prof. R. M......136

Dawkins, Sir W. Boyd.....127

della Seta, Signor . . . . . .105

Disinfectants, use of, in tholoi. . . xii, 69
Duckworth, Dr......126,127

E

Ea-Bani, legends of; connection with Minoan

fantastic forms ..... 131

Earth from burial stratum—analysis of . .89
Egypt-
Relations with Crete . . v, x, 128-30
Numbers of stone vases in . . . .15

Euboea, tombs in . . . . . . 6,32

Evans, Sir Arthur . 5,6,7,10,30,40,41,43,83,104,
109,116, 117, 119, 131, 132

F

Faience beads. See Objects found.
Faience, Cretan compared with Egyptian . . 31
Figurines (clay, ivory, stone). See Objects found.
Fire, marks of. See Tholoi.

G

Gavdos, copper in . . . . . .27

Gilgamesh, legends of . . . . 131

Gold. See Objects found.

Gdurnes, burial enclosures .... 32
Gournia—

E.M. Ill vases...... 16

Palettes....... 16

Sacred figures ...... 50

Table of Offerings in shrine ... 63