. The palace of Minos : a comparative account of the successive stages of the early Cretan civilization as illustrated by the discoveries at Knossos . Fig. 465. The Psychro Libation Table, restored. (I c.) swine, and goats, together with the horn of an Agrimi or Cretan wild goata foot and half in length. In this deposit, which proved to have a consider-able extension, were also found quantities of pottery and other relics,including the votive double-axe blade and the stepped base, executed inthe same black steatite as the Libation Table, which have been illustrated in s s 2 628 THE PALACE OF M
. The palace of Minos : a comparative account of the successive stages of the early Cretan civilization as illustrated by the discoveries at Knossos . Fig. 465. The Psychro Libation Table, restored. (I c.) swine, and goats, together with the horn of an Agrimi or Cretan wild goata foot and half in length. In this deposit, which proved to have a consider-able extension, were also found quantities of pottery and other relics,including the votive double-axe blade and the stepped base, executed inthe same black steatite as the Libation Table, which have been illustrated in s s 2 628 THE PALACE OF MINOS, ETC. Fig. 315 above. It is to be observed that the lowest stratum, beneath whichthe fragment of the Table lay, contained M. M. Ill painted sherds, somewith plant designs white on dark. In the immediately adjoining area to the East, explored by Mr. Hogarthin the course of his methodical excavation of the Cave in 1900, there came to. Fig. 466. Remaining part of Inscribed Libation Table of Black Steatite, (i) light an altar-like structure of roughly squared stones, about which wereremains of a series of smaller libation vessels, the earlier also of blacksteatite and with single cups surrounded by a raised rim, exactly resem-bling those of the Temple Repository. One of these presents threelinear signs.^ Hogarth, op, cit., p. 114, Fig. 50. Two of the characters are of abnormal form. M. M. Ill: LINEAR SCRIPT A AND ITS SACRAL USAGE 629 The triple receptacle indicated by the remains of the larger Table Triplecorresponds with the triple aspect of the cult of this Cave Sanctuary, as ^^^^%^to which remarkable evidence is supplied by a votive bronze plate de- Libations,scribed below. The custom of offering threefold libation itself goes backto the earliest religious stratum of Greece.^ According to the old Arcadianrite recorded in the Odyssey the dead before the falls of Styx were appeasedby a triple libation : npStra fMeKi
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