. The palace of Minos : a comparative account of the successive stages of the early Cretan civilization as illustrated by the discoveries at Knossos . Fig. 94. E. M. Ill Burial Cist and Jar: Pachyammos, East Crete, {-^-^c) possible indeed that the ancient Cretans, like the Libyan tribe of theNasamones, described by Herodotos, had forced the dying to take a Clay burial cists, some of oval form, and pots placed bottomupwards, with contracted skeletons, are characteristic of prehistoric Egyptiantombs.* Have we not here the source of a long Minoan line ? It will be seen that the E
. The palace of Minos : a comparative account of the successive stages of the early Cretan civilization as illustrated by the discoveries at Knossos . Fig. 94. E. M. Ill Burial Cist and Jar: Pachyammos, East Crete, {-^-^c) possible indeed that the ancient Cretans, like the Libyan tribe of theNasamones, described by Herodotos, had forced the dying to take a Clay burial cists, some of oval form, and pots placed bottomupwards, with contracted skeletons, are characteristic of prehistoric Egyptiantombs.* Have we not here the source of a long Minoan line ? It will be seen that the Egyptian or Egypto-Libyan connexions, ofwhich we have so many evidences during the Third Early Minoan Period, pointto the troubled time that intervenes between the Sixth and the EleventhDynasties. According to the system here adopted the approximate dateot this Minoan Period would He between 2400 and 2100 b. c. slightlyoverlapping the Eleventh Dynasty. ^ See above, p. 59, and p. 150. ^ Seager, The Cemetery of Pachyammos, Crete,pp. 9-13, 28, PI. XII. = Herod., lib. IV, 190; cf. E. H. Hall(Mrs. Dohan), Sphoungaras, p. 62. * De Morgan, Origine
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