. The palace of Minos : a comparative account of the successive stages of the early Cretan civilization as illustrated by the discoveries at Knossos . 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 i
. The palace of Minos : a comparative account of the successive stages of the early Cretan civilization as illustrated by the discoveries at Knossos . 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. Fig. 429. c. (Larnax) of Ill Date (a and b probably M. M. I) ; Pachyawmos. (^ c.) a characteristic Nilotic type going back to the pre-dynastic period hasalready been noted.^ A curious feature of the burial chest c is the appearance in verticalorder between the two handles, and again to the right, of marks, clearlyshown in the photograph, which closely resemble written characters of one orother of the Linear Scripts. It will be seen from an interesting discoverymade on the East Slope that characters of Class A, in that case ink-written,are inscribed on two cups of this Period. From a photograph kindly supplied me byMr. Seager (cf. Fachyammos, PI. XII, x, a, andp. 2o). The coffin had been placed upside down,resting on its lid. Mr. Seager inclined to attri-bute it to M. M. Ill, and its rectangular shape .and square-cut rim bear out this conclusion. ^ lb. xvii, c, and p. 28. It bears a drippattern in yellowish white paint, characteristicof Ill Period. See above, p
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