. The palace of Minos : a comparative account of the successive stages of the early Cretan civilization as illustrated by the discoveries at Knossos . wers like/ with their broad white spirals on thedark ground—the most numerously represented of all the types found in the Tsuntas and . Manatt, Mycenaean Age, not arrived at a definite classification of the two pp. 69 and 334. phases of the Linear Script, but it was at once ^ With this, too, must go the comparisons apparent that the characters on this jar showed made loc. cit. with the supposed aversion of variations from those of the ordinary c


. The palace of Minos : a comparative account of the successive stages of the early Cretan civilization as illustrated by the discoveries at Knossos . wers like/ with their broad white spirals on thedark ground—the most numerously represented of all the types found in the Tsuntas and . Manatt, Mycenaean Age, not arrived at a definite classification of the two pp. 69 and 334. phases of the Linear Script, but it was at once ^ With this, too, must go the comparisons apparent that the characters on this jar showed made loc. cit. with the supposed aversion of variations from those of the ordinary clay tablets the so-called Graeco-Italic stock—including of Class B. See Xnossos, Report, 1901, p. Homeric Achaeans—to a fish diet. On * See p. 616 seqq. this subject see KeramopouUos, MuxTji/aiKo, See below, p. 593 seqq., and Coloured (Apx- i^e^Tiov, igrS, p. 88 seqq.). Plate VII. When this discovery was made in 1901,1 had ^ See below, p. 617. M. M. Ill: THE PALACE POTTERY STORES 557 Repositories—recur among the earliest elements of the Shaft Graves atMycenae. A similar community with the Shaft-Graves (see Fig. 405,/,_f) is shown. Fig. 404. Pottery from Temple Repositories {h, Melian Vessel) (i c). by the occurrence of the remains of at least a dozen vessels of a \yell-known importedMelian type (Figs. 404, 405, a?), presenting figures of flying birds. Flying vetgg^^birds of the same kind appear on a series of vessels of this and other 558 THE PALACE OF MINOS, ETC. forms found at Phylakopi in Melos in a stratum—the Third MiddleEvi- CycUdic—which also contained fragments recalling the Cretan Mily jars. oHnter- The recurved neck of Fig. 405, d must be regarded as a survival fromprimi-course ^j^g s]^j,-^ vessels, which in Melos and in the Middle Aegean area generally, between y /^ i i i Crete and greatly influenced the shapes of pottery. In Crete, on the other hand, this influence seems to have been at a minimum, but the reaction of early stone types on pottery i


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