A number of fragments of clay rhyta in the form of a bull's head were discovered at Palaikastro on 1 April, 1905, in area Π in a L.M.I stratum immediately overlying a M.M.III deposit. Such pots were evidently cheap imitations of works of art like the silver rhyton from the Fourth Shaft Grave at Mycenae and the steatite rhyton from the Little Palace at Knossos. Another fragment of such a rhyton was uncovered in Π 105, and the nose of yet another in Π 106. On 5 April, 1905, a cheek and one eye of a bull's head rhyton were found in Π 101, and on 18 April a painted nozzle in χ 24; in both instances in deposits dating from the M.M.III period. Sir Arthur Evans has traced the development of the bull-shaped fillers of the M.M.I period back to Early Dynastic types in Sumer, but stresses the fact that this particular group of bull's head rhyta seems to have originated in Crete, and he points out the propriety of such rhyta in a cult of the earth-shaker (PM I. 188; II. 260; III. 537).