. The palace of Minos : a comparative account of the successive stages of the early Cretan civilization as illustrated by the discoveries at Knossos . familiar but and bensystem, which, as we have seen,* goes back in Crete to Neolithic times. From Seager, Excavations at Vasilikl, by the blocking of the door leading to the-i^^od {Transactions Dept. of Archaeology, Univ. of Pennsylvania, ii, 1907, p. 112, Fig. i). ^ Noel Heaton, Minoan Lime Plaster and. Fresco Painting {Journ. of R., Inst, of Brit,- Ar-chitects, xviii, p. 698). Similar remains of thedeepred-faced plaster with avery smooth surfac
. The palace of Minos : a comparative account of the successive stages of the early Cretan civilization as illustrated by the discoveries at Knossos . familiar but and bensystem, which, as we have seen,* goes back in Crete to Neolithic times. From Seager, Excavations at Vasilikl, by the blocking of the door leading to the-i^^od {Transactions Dept. of Archaeology, Univ. of Pennsylvania, ii, 1907, p. 112, Fig. i). ^ Noel Heaton, Minoan Lime Plaster and. Fresco Painting {Journ. of R., Inst, of Brit,- Ar-chitects, xviii, p. 698). Similar remains of thedeepred-faced plaster with avery smooth surfaceoccurred in Early Minoan deposits at Knossos. Cf. Seager, Explorations in the Island ofMochlos, p. 41, Fig. 15. The internal arrange-ment was modified in the E. M. Ill Period inner compartment and by the building ofa low wall across the entrance room. InFig. 73, placed at the end of this section,both this blocking and the annexed Tomb Vare removed. ? See above, p. 32. Also Mackenzie, CretanPalacesIV, A., xiv, pp. 362-5, 368-74,and compare with the Mochlos House Tombthe Early Minoan Ossuary at Kastri, lac. cit.,p. 363, Fig. 5, and p. PaintedGeome-tricalDecora-tion onPottery. 74 THE PALACE OF MINOS, ETC. Simple but and ben huts, moreover, constructed with --g^fy^e- ^^-eblocks are associated with contemporary Cycladic remains.^ This tomb-planin fact supplies a typical example of the simpler form ^{^^^^^^^I^J^.in use in Crete at the beginning of the Early Minoan Age. The house ofthe dead is here a reduced model of the house of the hvmg. A Sub-Neolithic tradition is still perceptible on some of the earlypottery of this Period, notably a class of fine grey ware. Apart irom this,the first ceramic phase of the E. M. II culture is chiefly characterized bypainted vessels showing a geometrical decoration of a darker hue on a pale Dark on Light Styles. E. M. IIDomesticWarefromHouse-floors,Knossos.
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