. The palace of Minos : a comparative account of the successive stages of the early Cretan civilization as illustrated by the discoveries at Knossos . s also found ofa crescent-shaped outline similar to othersof faience and crystal that have occurredelsewhere in the Palace. Among otherbone relics tbe arrow plumes with theircuriously notched feathers will be seen to have a special relation to a decorative motive much in vogue at thistime.* As votive objects, moreover, they have an intimate bearing on thecult of .the Minoan Diktynna. The elegant ivory plate of a knife handlehere brought to light
. The palace of Minos : a comparative account of the successive stages of the early Cretan civilization as illustrated by the discoveries at Knossos . s also found ofa crescent-shaped outline similar to othersof faience and crystal that have occurredelsewhere in the Palace. Among otherbone relics tbe arrow plumes with theircuriously notched feathers will be seen to have a special relation to a decorative motive much in vogue at thistime.* As votive objects, moreover, they have an intimate bearing on thecult of .the Minoan Diktynna. The elegant ivory plate of a knife handlehere brought to light (Fig. Z^^b) may well have belonged; to a sacrificialinstrument. To the sacrificial element, perhaps:represented by the knifehandle, may be added the discovery of the cores of horns of Roe-deer, andthe greasiness of the deposit, which attained, its maximum immediately above ^ See below, pp. 618, 620. VSee below, p. 547 seqq., and Figs. 399-402. ^ See below, p. 617 seqq. For a drawing of both sides of this and S^eray Minoan Weights and Currency (va sectioilseei^«o«(?j,i?«^(?^-/, 1903, p. 6i,. Numismatica, 1906), p. 363, Fig. Fig. 354 ^. Ivory HandleOF Instrument, andInlay • TempleRepository. Ill: THE SNAKE GODDESS AND RELICS 497 Tables. the floor, was also possibly due to the presence of animal matter. Theburnt corn also found in some abundance may have also had an offertorycharacter. In the same stratum of this Repository there came to light a series of Libationsteatite Libation Tables (see Fig. 355, upper row). These receptacles, whichtaper gradually to a small base below, show on their square upper facea shalloA/\L cup-like hollow with, a raised rim. They exactly resemble theLibation Tables with a single cup found in the votive deposit of theDictaean Cave.^ This type represents a simpler variety of that with threereceptacles, exhibiting the early linear inscription, found beneath the same
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