. The palace of Minos : a comparative account of the successive stages of the early Cretan civilization as illustrated by the discoveries at Knossos . ndate. This class of vesselwill be more fully con-sidered in a later Sectionof this work. Certain other smallhoards or isolated finds ofclay seal-impressions atpressions Knossos, belonging to de- at Knos- . - . , , SOS. posits ot approximately the sarne date as the TempleRepository, help to sup-plement the evidence thatit supplies. Among thesemay be mentioned sealingsor fragments of such foundin the Area of the JewelFresco,^ and others whichoccu
. The palace of Minos : a comparative account of the successive stages of the early Cretan civilization as illustrated by the discoveries at Knossos . ndate. This class of vesselwill be more fully con-sidered in a later Sectionof this work. Certain other smallhoards or isolated finds ofclay seal-impressions atpressions Knossos, belonging to de- at Knos- . - . , , SOS. posits ot approximately the sarne date as the TempleRepository, help to sup-plement the evidence thatit supplies. Among thesemay be mentioned sealingsor fragments of such foundin the Area of the JewelFresco,^ and others whichoccurred by the blockedopening of the Corridor ofthe Bays and which mustbe brought into connexionwith the knobbed ritualvessels found there and withthe Medallion Pithoi of theadjoining Magazine, all be-longing to the Ill Anothergroup of sealings of distinctly early affinities—some of them perhaps slightlyoverlapping the bounds of this Period—came to light below the later Service Staircase of the Domestic Quarter .^ Among these was the com-Among these impressions was a standing sealings clearly of a later style and associated. Fig. 501. Votive Bronze Figure from theSacrificial Stratum of the Psychro Cave. figure of a bull, from an intaglio of the flat-tened cylinder type, a seated bull from astone of amygdaloid form, and a fragmentarysealing showing part of an adorant against aplait-work background. On the pavement of the Middle was also found a scattered deposit of with clay tablets of the Linear Class B belong-ing to the last Palace Epoch. See p. 713. In this deposit were foundseveral designs showing lions seizing bullsor deer, and others representing grains of corn,a type of very early tradition. M. M. Ill: SEAL TYPES AND GREATER ART 683 pound type illustrated below (Fig. 536, c), showing two confronted griffinsrecalling Zakro types. More isolated finds of seal-impressions were made inM. M. Ill deposits by the Court of the Stone Spout, and in
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