. The palace of Minos : a comparative account of the successive stages of the early Cretan civilization as illustrated by the discoveries at Knossos . mp, a characteristic feature of the later kernos type, was perhaps anticipated by the central recipient often seen in the Minoan class.^ They are, in fact, so described in Goumia,p. so. Cf. Seager, Excavations at Vasiliki, 1904{Transactions, &CC., 1905),PLXXXIVj Goumia,PI. B. C and D from Palaikastro are in theAshmolean Museum. EARLY MINOAN II 79 had been placed upside down in a bed of coals .i The same process was attimes followed in Cyprus. In
. The palace of Minos : a comparative account of the successive stages of the early Cretan civilization as illustrated by the discoveries at Knossos . mp, a characteristic feature of the later kernos type, was perhaps anticipated by the central recipient often seen in the Minoan class.^ They are, in fact, so described in Goumia,p. so. Cf. Seager, Excavations at Vasiliki, 1904{Transactions, &CC., 1905),PLXXXIVj Goumia,PI. B. C and D from Palaikastro are in theAshmolean Museum. EARLY MINOAN II 79 had been placed upside down in a bed of coals .i The same process was attimes followed in Cyprus. In the above cases we have to do with the application of this method to Greaterprimitive hand polished wares. In the Vasiliki class we see it largely adapted oxjdationto the early glaze technique.^ The root cause in producing this effect °, however, to be that suggested by Professor Flinders Petrie ^ in thecase of the Egyptian black-topped pottery, namely, the greater or lessdirect exposure of the vessel to the hot air of a kiln, which preserves the redoxide of the surface material. It is clear, however, that the Minoan potters. b a c Fig. 47. Metallic Types of E. M. II Vessels from Sphungaras (§ f.). possessed a method of reserving certain parts of the vessel from direct Patternscontact with the furnace air in such a way as to produce a variety of simple bypatterns or other definite effects.* Thus several of the specimens given ^t°^g;„in Fig. 46 present an appearance, recalling the pebbly section of conglom- this tech-erate stone, such as is imitated at times on Middle Minoan painted vases. In Edith H. Hall (now Mrs. Dohan), Ex-cavations in Eastern Crete; Sphoungaras,pp. 48, 49. ^ See Seager, Excavations at Vasiliki, 1904,p. ri, note. The old method, however, sur-vived at Vasiliki and elsewhere, and a largepart of the surface of the vessels is oftensimply hand-polished. The cup (Fig. 46, d) isan instance in point, the black bands appearingon the red-faced and
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