. The palace of Minos : a comparative account of the successive stages of the early Cretan civilization as illustrated by the discoveries at Knossos . relics there foundincluded a wholly unique collection of o5jets d^art, executed with extra-ordinary skill in this indigenous kind of porcelain, the fabric, but not the A similar steatite libation table was Others occurred at Palaikastro and by me from a sanctuary at Aryi, on ^This libation vessel appears in the figurethe coast of Crete {/. H. S., xvii, p. 357). in a somewhat disproportionate K k Relicsfrom
. The palace of Minos : a comparative account of the successive stages of the early Cretan civilization as illustrated by the discoveries at Knossos . relics there foundincluded a wholly unique collection of o5jets d^art, executed with extra-ordinary skill in this indigenous kind of porcelain, the fabric, but not the A similar steatite libation table was Others occurred at Palaikastro and by me from a sanctuary at Aryi, on ^This libation vessel appears in the figurethe coast of Crete {/. H. S., xvii, p. 357). in a somewhat disproportionate K k Relicsfrom 498 THE PALACE OF MINOS, ETC. SmallFaienceBowlsand „Ewers. which, must have been learnt from Egypt. These faience objectsincluded figures of a Snake Goddess and votaries, their votive robes andgirdles, cups and vases with painted designs, flowers, fruit, foliage, andshells in the round, small reliefs of cows and calves and wild goats withtheir kids, a variety of. plaques for inlaying, quantities of beads, andheaps of painted sea-shells, which had apparently served to adorn the floorand ledges on which the cult objects Fig. 356. Faience Vessels and Pendant; Temple Re:positories (^ c). It is a significant circumstance that miniature vessels of polychromepottery in the earlier shrines, such as the M. M. II examples from, the Loom-Weight Area, are here replaced by small bowls and ewers of the local ^ of these are given in Fig. 356. One of the bowls is adornedwith a border of cockles, another with Minoan shields. The small jug withits spiraliform decoration is clearly taken from a prototype in precious metalsrecalling a gold ewer from the Fourth Shaft Grave at Mycenae^ anda plain silver example belonging,to the beginning of the Late Minoan Age Schliemann, Mycenae, p. 232, Fig. 341. Ill: THE SNAKE GODDESS AND RELICS 499 from the South House at Knossos.^ This fine glazed ware was no doubtto a certain extent used, hke the earlier egg-sh
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