The palaces of Crete and their builders . ition to several others whichhave come to light in It was thought that this hut repre- Gardner, The Greek House, journal of licllcnic Studies^ vol. 293, 1901. ^ Sitzber. d. k. Akad. der Wissenschaft zu Berlin, 1883. 3 It is a circular hut of terracotta, 73 mm. high with conical root andrectangular door. An identical hut with a small door was discovered by at Pha^stos in 1902. 150 PALACES OF CRETE AXD THEIR BUILDERS sented the primitive house of the ItaHc peoples ; later it wasfound that even in the Stone Age similar round hut
The palaces of Crete and their builders . ition to several others whichhave come to light in It was thought that this hut repre- Gardner, The Greek House, journal of licllcnic Studies^ vol. 293, 1901. ^ Sitzber. d. k. Akad. der Wissenschaft zu Berlin, 1883. 3 It is a circular hut of terracotta, 73 mm. high with conical root andrectangular door. An identical hut with a small door was discovered by at Pha^stos in 1902. 150 PALACES OF CRETE AXD THEIR BUILDERS sented the primitive house of the ItaHc peoples ; later it wasfound that even in the Stone Age similar round huts existed in thelake dwellings, and then they were discovered further off, inEgypt and in Crete ; and these are more ancient and thereforenearer their origin. Similar models in terracotta were found inthe Forum Romanum at Rome.^ The entrance in the cineraryurns from the Forum - also is made with a rectangular valve ofclav, and as in the models from Phasstos there are two holes inthe door jambs into which the bolt was pushed to fasten FIG. 69.—TERRACOTTA MODEL OE A HUT FOUXD AT PH.^STOS. When the people who introduced cremation into Italv firstarrived there, they did not use these hut-shaped ossuaries, at leastso say Pigorini and Orsi. They accepted this form which alreadyexisted in Italv, and we now know that the most ancient examplesof these huts were tound in the islands ot the T^igean, whencremation was not yet practised there. The Ktruscans also made ^ Pinza, Mfjuiimcnti Antichi^ xv. p. 470. - Boni, Foro Romano, Esploraxione del Sepolcreto, Notixk degli Scavi, I. THE CRAFTSMEN OF MINOS 151 use of them and they are very common in Etruria ; these are,however, of less antiquity and generally belong to the early IronAge. I The study of the house is useful for the history of Mediter-ranean civilisation, for many have thought that the house was aninvention of the Phoenicians. This can be no longer said, neitherdid the Indo-Germans, who lived on carts, teach men t
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