The palaces of Crete and their builders . tni ;3w/((5) f(T-«(Trt) alQajiirac caiSacufTfi xepffh ixovTic. 3 Od., xviii. 310 : afioijiijiic 0 ur^panov i^wal OCvaa^or TciKacTKppovoc. COOKERY AV POETRY AND REAL LIFE 303 mentions a silver lamp, but there must have been many lampsmade of terracotta, limestone, and steatite. A peculiarity of the lamps tound in the excavations is thatmost of them have an edge which supports the burnt proves that the lamps were allowed to burn till all the oilwas consumed, and that there was such abundance of illuminationthat it was not usual to economise it.
The palaces of Crete and their builders . tni ;3w/((5) f(T-«(Trt) alQajiirac caiSacufTfi xepffh ixovTic. 3 Od., xviii. 310 : afioijiijiic 0 ur^panov i^wal OCvaa^or TciKacTKppovoc. COOKERY AV POETRY AND REAL LIFE 303 mentions a silver lamp, but there must have been many lampsmade of terracotta, limestone, and steatite. A peculiarity of the lamps tound in the excavations is thatmost of them have an edge which supports the burnt proves that the lamps were allowed to burn till all the oilwas consumed, and that there was such abundance of illuminationthat it was not usual to economise it. Besides small portablelamps in terracotta (Pig. 147), there were others, more massive,in marble or steatite (Fig. 148), which were probablv keptstationary. The lamps themselves were decorative, as is evident from theartistic forms, similar to the one illustrated in Fig
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