. The palace of Minos : a comparative account of the successive stages of the early Cretan civilization as illustrated by the discoveries at Knossos . lords in precious metals inthe palmy dajs of the Middle Minoan Age. The imitation of Egyptian copper vesselshad, as we have seen, already theSecond Period of the Early Minoan Age^ andin the next Period indigenous types of tJie kindwere also reproduced. On the floors of HouseA at Vasiliki, in company with pottery of theM. M. I b class, Mr. Seager discovered a peculiarclass of fine ware the surface of which presentedan iridescent effect a
. The palace of Minos : a comparative account of the successive stages of the early Cretan civilization as illustrated by the discoveries at Knossos . lords in precious metals inthe palmy dajs of the Middle Minoan Age. The imitation of Egyptian copper vesselshad, as we have seen, already theSecond Period of the Early Minoan Age^ andin the next Period indigenous types of tJie kindwere also reproduced. On the floors of HouseA at Vasiliki, in company with pottery of theM. M. I b class, Mr. Seager discovered a peculiarclass of fine ware the surface of which presentedan iridescent effect and in which we may recognize a local Minoan attemptto imitate a metallic sheen. Here found the two-handled amphora,Fig. 140,^ with slightly pinched-in mouth, which is clearly a very directimitation of a copper original, the effect, indeed, enhanced by its iridescentsurface, is so successful that at first glance it might easily be mistalcen fora vessel of bronze . This copper amphora type, or, rather, a simpler stage ofit, has left its impress in a coarser form on a common type of plain M. M. I Diffusion of Silver Types from Troadic Imitationof CopperVessels. iri: Fig. 140. Clay IMITATION OFCOPPER Amphora, M. M. I b,Vasiliki, Crete. See especially Prof. W. Gowland, ,Arxhaeologia, 2nd ser., xix, 1920, pp. Gowland calls attention to the con-siderable deposits of argentiferous galena in themountain districts of Mt. Ida and in theOlympus range. Some of the ancient workingshave been re-opened, notably the mine ofI ( Balia, at the present time the most importantin Asia Minor for lead and ^ R. B. Seager, Excavations in the Island ofPseira {Univ. Pennsylvania Trans. Ill), p. 20, Fig- 5- R. B. Seager, Excavations at Vasiliki in i()o6 (lb. II), pp. 125, 126. 194 THE PALACE OF MINOS, ETC. jars.^ The common M. M. Ill amphoras with their mouths slightly pinchedas in Fig. 403, c, also belong to the same tradition. Among the MainlandMinyan for
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