The palaces of Crete and their builders . ge to say, no plates werefound. The absence of small bronze spoons or anything inthe shape of a fork makes it probable that in those times foodwas taken in the hand much oftener than it is now. Thereare lebetes^ or kettles of copper, with three feet, which mighthave just come from one of our own kitchens. A lebes tromGournia (Fig. 143) is exactly like the one found this year atPhasstos, which had lost two feet. The edge is well worked. 298 PALACES OF CRETE AND THEIR BUILDERS and has a horizontal rim to support a lid.^ To give a betteridea of the kitche
The palaces of Crete and their builders . ge to say, no plates werefound. The absence of small bronze spoons or anything inthe shape of a fork makes it probable that in those times foodwas taken in the hand much oftener than it is now. Thereare lebetes^ or kettles of copper, with three feet, which mighthave just come from one of our own kitchens. A lebes tromGournia (Fig. 143) is exactly like the one found this year atPhasstos, which had lost two feet. The edge is well worked. 298 PALACES OF CRETE AND THEIR BUILDERS and has a horizontal rim to support a lid.^ To give a betteridea of the kitchen utensils I reproduce some found in a tomb atKnossos 2 (Fig. 144). A long corridor, one and a half metres wide, leads down to amortuary chamber, in which these bronze utensils were found,placed as they are in the illustration. In front is the braziero^gesso still containing the remains of charred wood ; a lamp (/)with the chain for attaching an extinguisher, and other vasesin the form of hydrias, amphorae, basins and cups. At the right-. FIG. 143.—COPPER LEBES OR CAULDRON IX THE MUSEUMAT CAXDIA. hand corner, near the door, were found knives, razors, andfragments of a casket inlaid with ivory. As early as the Neolithic period large spoons or ladles madeof terracotta were used, probably only as ladles. One o( thesame kind is marked d in Fig. 144. Diam. 27 cm., depth 12 cm. The chemical analysis shows 98*212 percent, of copper, mixed with iron, lead, and sulphur. Zinc and tin are do not know whether the material of the vessels found by Evans in a tombat Knossos (Fig. 144.) has been analysed. Evans states that they are ofbronze. - A. Evans, The Prehistoric Tombs of Knossos, from Archaolog-^,vol. lix. COOKERY IN POETRY AND REAL LIFE 299 VII. It would take too long to enumerate all the forms of saucepanused in the Minoan kitchen. Even a hasty examination showedme that there were a good many kinds of perforated receptaclefor straining or filtering. At present we use hardly
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