. The palace of Minos : a comparative account of the successive stages of the early Cretan civilization as illustrated by the discoveries at Knossos . .,i8go, Tav. II and p. ii). The swimmingfishes painted in the interior of this are appro-priate to the idea of a bath. The usual holesmade in the base of the ordinary day coffinsfor the drainage of moisture were was, however, one horizontal perforation at the base. A second plain specimen wasfound in the same rock chamber. ^ Remains of a clay sarcophagus of bathshape were found in Tomb 3 of the Ismenionat Thebes (Keramopoullos, Apx
. The palace of Minos : a comparative account of the successive stages of the early Cretan civilization as illustrated by the discoveries at Knossos . .,i8go, Tav. II and p. ii). The swimmingfishes painted in the interior of this are appro-priate to the idea of a bath. The usual holesmade in the base of the ordinary day coffinsfor the drainage of moisture were was, however, one horizontal perforation at the base. A second plain specimen wasfound in the same rock chamber. ^ Remains of a clay sarcophagus of bathshape were found in Tomb 3 of the Ismenionat Thebes (Keramopoullos, Apx- AeAnw, 1917,p. 92, Fig. 66). Another bath-shaped coffinhas recently come to light at Mycenae (seeIllustrated London News, Dec. 4, 1920,p. 936). Ill: THE PALACE POTTERY STORES 581 occurrence close to it of a triton-shelV a usual concomitant of thesesanctuaries. were in fact used as trumpets in Minoan cultfor calling down the divinity to altars of offering, as is shown on a crystallentoid already illustrated which was found in the Idaean Cave. In the of this chamber were found a steatite pyxis, -a cup, with dull. Fig. 425. View of Entrance to Magazine of False-spouted Jars,SHOWING Clay Partition. red spirals on a pale buff ground, and other small vessels, but the objects ofworship had been removed. Magazine of the False-spouted Jars. This lobby led on the left to two inner store-rooms divided by a clayand plaster partition like that described in the case of the Magazine of theLily Jars .^ The clay core of this was in places cooked red, showing that a • In Xnossos,J?epor^, Jgo2, p. 82, the conch- large jars. The sanctuary character of theshell and pyxis are erroneously described as lobby was also missed,having been found in the Magazine with the ^ See above, p. 576, Fig. 420. 582 THE PALACE OF MINOS, ETC. Magazineof the .False-spbutedStore-jars. TheirEvolutionfromSmaller Jugs- conflagration had here preceded the filling, in. The more Western of
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