. The palace of Minos : a comparative account of the successive stages of the early Cretan civilization as illustrated by the discoveries at Knossos . d Fig. 119. , Mottled Egg-shellWare Tumbler ; i>, Crystal Core ; c, d,Fragments of Clay Sealings : FromVat Room Deposit. that appears already in E. M. Ill vermilion pigment. Of great interest, too, is a miniature form of tumbler (big. 119, a) found here and in a contemporary pre-Palace deposit beneath ?E^.Apx., r9o8,, Fig.,3, p. 259, Fig. 6; and cf. Wace and Thompson,des Jitudes Grecgues, xxv (1912), Freh. Thessaly, p. 204, Fi
. The palace of Minos : a comparative account of the successive stages of the early Cretan civilization as illustrated by the discoveries at Knossos . d Fig. 119. , Mottled Egg-shellWare Tumbler ; i>, Crystal Core ; c, d,Fragments of Clay Sealings : FromVat Room Deposit. that appears already in E. M. Ill vermilion pigment. Of great interest, too, is a miniature form of tumbler (big. 119, a) found here and in a contemporary pre-Palace deposit beneath ?E^.Apx., r9o8,, Fig.,3, p. 259, Fig. 6; and cf. Wace and Thompson,des Jitudes Grecgues, xxv (1912), Freh. Thessaly, p. 204, Fig. 140. and Rev. M. M. I : CERAMIC PHASES 169 the floor of the First Magazine.^ The surface of these shows a survival ofthe red and black mottled technique of the preceding Age, but the tenuity offabric, already noted in some of its wares, is here even surpassed, at least asregards the average thickness of the walls, which does not exceed a singlemillimetre. The Minoan egg-shell ware, of which such brilliant polychrome examplesare forthcoming during the early part of the succeeding II Period,. Fig. 120. Objects in Various Materials from Vat Room Deposit ( I). had in fact already attained its ne phis ultra of fineness at Knossos by thevery opening of the Middle Minoan Age. In sympathy with this, moreover,as is shown by the remains of a vase of marble-like material which alsooccurred in the Vat Room Deposit (Fig. 120), a similar tenuity of fabric was Knossos, Report, 1901 {B. ,n\\), p. 48. native formatore was quite unable to pieceThese tumblers were found in a much broken them together,condition and so thin were their walls that our lyo PALACE OF MINOS, ETC. Relicsfoundin VatRoomDeposit. CrystalCore. FaienceBeadsandInlays. ShellMosaic:perhapsDraught-board. Fore-arm ofFigurine. VatRoomDepositderived also now achieved in lapidary work. As will be seen below, from thecharacteristic forms of certain egg-shell vessels, a main inspiration ofthis fabric may have been the i
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