. The palace of Minos : a comparative account of the successive stages of the early Cretan civilization as illustrated by the discoveries at Knossos . re of almost microscopic fineness, may vie for instance with the most refined fabrics of the Alexandriangoldsmiths of the Ptolemaic Age Several forms of ornament, such as the diadems or gold bands, the pins, pendants, and bracelets, present pointsof affinity with types from contemporary Cycladic tombs, where, however,the precious metal used was silver.* Others, again, recur in the Second Edith H. Hall, Excavations in EasternCrete: Sphou
. The palace of Minos : a comparative account of the successive stages of the early Cretan civilization as illustrated by the discoveries at Knossos . re of almost microscopic fineness, may vie for instance with the most refined fabrics of the Alexandriangoldsmiths of the Ptolemaic Age Several forms of ornament, such as the diadems or gold bands, the pins, pendants, and bracelets, present pointsof affinity with types from contemporary Cycladic tombs, where, however,the precious metal used was silver.* Others, again, recur in the Second Edith H. Hall, Excavations in EasternCrete: Sphoungaras (Philadelphia, 1912),PP- 52; S3, and Fig. 25, a. ^ In Scripta Minoa, p. 130, I was inclined tobring down the first appearance of this classof prism-seal to the E. M. Ill Period. I havesince learnt of the authenticated discovery of a bead-seal of this class in a pure E. M. II deposit. ^ Beads of these materials occurred ina necklace from Tomb XIX (E. M. II) atMochlos (Seager, op. cit., p. 72 and Fig. 41).See Fig. 67. * A silver diadem from Siphnos (TsuntasE^. Apx-, 1899, PI. X, I, p. 123), with the ?^iti. y i%^*i*: iMMMjJ iM,^l-fc. V
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