. The palace of Minos : a comparative account of the successive stages of the early Cretan civilization as illustrated by the discoveries at Knossos . , but whole ceme-teries containing similar jar-burials have since come tolight, notably at Pachyammosand Sphungaras,and this systemof interment is now seen to pfoback to the lower borders ofthe Early Minoan Age. Thepractice seems to have died outin L. M. I. The bodies musthave been trussed either beforedeath, like those of the ancientLibyan tribe described byHerodotus,^ or at any rate be-fore the rigor mortis had set is clear that the ordi
. The palace of Minos : a comparative account of the successive stages of the early Cretan civilization as illustrated by the discoveries at Knossos . , but whole ceme-teries containing similar jar-burials have since come tolight, notably at Pachyammosand Sphungaras,and this systemof interment is now seen to pfoback to the lower borders ofthe Early Minoan Age. Thepractice seems to have died outin L. M. I. The bodies musthave been trussed either beforedeath, like those of the ancientLibyan tribe described byHerodotus,^ or at any rate be-fore the rigor mortis had set is clear that the ordi-nary store-jars were used for this sepulchral purpose, though those withcertain sacral or symbolic designs seem to have been occasionally .selectedby preference as in the above cases. Pari passti with the jar-burials,clay cists or coffers continued to serve for holding the contracted skeletonsand this practice, unlike the other, survived to the close of the Minoan Knossos, Report, 1902, pp. 88, 89, and Fig. 49. It has what appears to be an ordinarymouth with protruding lips, but the aperture in the wall is blocked.^ iv. 190. See above, p. Fig. 428. Burial Jar from near Knossos(Height 73 cm.). 586 THE PALACE OF MINOS, ETC. Age. A clay coffin or larnax of this class from Pachyamnios, apparentlyof Ill date, with handles for the attachment of the lid is givenin Fio. 429, c.^ The tendency, as we see from the succeeding LateMinoan class, was to substitute a purely angular for the earlier more or lessrounded types, A small urn of oval form, probably dating from E. M. Ill,is given in Fig. 429, B,^ and the approximation of this type of ossuary to
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