. The palace of Minos : a comparative account of the successive stages of the early Cretan civilization as illustrated by the discoveries at Knossos . commodation for these cheap products. In a stratum, separated layers of clay and burnt materials from that containing the fine egg-shellcups and bowls of the earlier fabric, lay piles of these comparatively roughvessels, many of them plain wide-mouthed pots with trickle ornament,like those of the Magazines, Fig. 416,^, but some with a lilac brownground and white bands, of the form reproduced in Fig. 416, a. These vases, like b, th
. The palace of Minos : a comparative account of the successive stages of the early Cretan civilization as illustrated by the discoveries at Knossos . commodation for these cheap products. In a stratum, separated layers of clay and burnt materials from that containing the fine egg-shellcups and bowls of the earlier fabric, lay piles of these comparatively roughvessels, many of them plain wide-mouthed pots with trickle ornament,like those of the Magazines, Fig. 416,^, but some with a lilac brownground and white bands, of the form reproduced in Fig. 416, a. These vases, like b, the inscribed jar from the Basement, and Elonga-c, belonging to a series abundantly forthcoming in the Magazines, ^^oxmafford good illustrations of that elongation of shape which is a very charac-teristic feature of this epoch. The type illustrated in Fig. 416, c, as Mr. Seager ^ See above, p. 390, and Fig. 281. 572 THE PALACE OF MINOS, ETC. points out, seems to go back to a form of breccia vase, with a spout, twosuspension handles, and a knob behind, found in an Early Minoan tomb It is shown here for comparison in Fig. Fig. 416. Examples of Elongated M. M. Ill Vases, a, above Royal Pottery Stores;b, Inscribed Jar, Basement; c, Magazines. (Ac.) Area E. of Royal Magazines. Ill East of the Royal Magazines and above the area of the Spiral Fresco Area^E.° the same filling-in process was carried out at the close of M. M. HI, Maga- Explorations in the Island of MocMos, in which the vase was found appears to belong zines. p. 79 (Fig. 46 and PI. III). The tomb (XXIII) to the E. M. II and E. M. Ill Periods Ill: THE PALACE POTTERY STORES 573 the object being in this case to form a platform so as to be able to constructa new East Hall more on a level with the Central Court. Tripod vases,like those of the Magazines, were found on the floor of a compartmentin this area, while the School Room and the adjoining HI store-rooms were simul
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