. The palace of Minos : a comparative account of the successive stages of the early Cretan civilization as illustrated by the discoveries at Knossos . atastrophe at the close of M. M. II,and which seems to have marked the earlier course of the present of the old capacious type had mostly disappeared. Only gradually,Sympto- pari passu with the increase in wealth in such comrhodities as oil, did a newImproved class of store-jar evolve itself out of humbler vessels. This is not, indeed,to say that among the Minoan lords a more direct tradition did not surviveof the earlier corded pi
. The palace of Minos : a comparative account of the successive stages of the early Cretan civilization as illustrated by the discoveries at Knossos . atastrophe at the close of M. M. II,and which seems to have marked the earlier course of the present of the old capacious type had mostly disappeared. Only gradually,Sympto- pari passu with the increase in wealth in such comrhodities as oil, did a newImproved class of store-jar evolve itself out of humbler vessels. This is not, indeed,to say that among the Minoan lords a more direct tradition did not surviveof the earlier corded pithoi. The evidence of this is supplied by the Medallion pithoi. The finest of the jars discovered in the above Magazine, which wasi-io metre in height, is reproduced in Fig. 427 a. It shows the atrophied Conditions, In the case of the lily jars, describedbelow, and others of the class, we see a mere knob or raised disk in place of the spout ofthe prototype. Ill: THE PALACE POTTERY STORES ooj spout on the left and is interesting as presenting in white on the purplishbrown ground four axe-like spokes radiating from a central ring with sprays.
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