. The palace of Minos : a comparative account of the successive stages of the early Cretan civilization as illustrated by the discoveries at Knossos . been cut off by a (see Section, 177). In this case again the pithos, which was bossed rather than knobbed, rested on a typical kalderim pave-ment, laid on the top of the outer foundation wall of the early Keep, belonging, as has been shown, to the early part of the M. M. I Period. With the Store jar was found a typical M. M. II cup showing a white band on the black glazed ground (see Fig. 177). This pithos, like most of its c
. The palace of Minos : a comparative account of the successive stages of the early Cretan civilization as illustrated by the discoveries at Knossos . been cut off by a (see Section, 177). In this case again the pithos, which was bossed rather than knobbed, rested on a typical kalderim pave-ment, laid on the top of the outer foundation wall of the early Keep, belonging, as has been shown, to the early part of the M. M. I Period. With the Store jar was found a typical M. M. II cup showing a white band on the black glazed ground (see Fig. 177). This pithos, like most of its class, was decorated with the trickle ornament and its low bosses were The section originally given, Knossos, bouring areas) that the pavement covered theReport, 1903 {, ix), p. 26, Fig. 13, was filling of another walled pit. On the othervitiated by two radical misconceptions. A testmade below the kalderim pavement on whichthe base of the knobbed pithos rested struckthe interstice between the foundation wall ofthe Keep and the face of the cutting into theNeolithic. This conveyed the wrong impres-sion (suggested by the analogy of the neigh-. FiG. 176. Painted Pithos, Phaestos.(Height i-o8 m.) II. hand, while the clay and plaster pavement ofthe floor above was well preserved near theNorth wall of the chamber, it was not realizedthat the greater part of its central area hadbeen broken in, and M. M. Ill pottery had thusin places intruded into the interspace on whichthe pithos stood. This was, therefore, also M. M. II: ROYAL POTTERY STORES (CERAMIC PHASE a) 235 surrounded with impressed circles—direct forerunners of the medalliohs ofthe M, M. Ill class.
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