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Excavations at Palaikastro. V
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 18 October 2013
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Although it had been intended to close the excavation in 1905, a few days were spent in 1906 in clearing up doubtful points. Work was carried on for only eight days with about ten men, but in spite of this small scale of operations a good deal of fresh light was thrown on the nature of Late Minoan II. burials. I was assisted throughout by Mr. J. P. Droop, of Trinity College, Cambridge.
Our first object was to test the field in which were found some years ago two stone moulds for making castings of female figures, double axes, and other objects. The field lies on the left of the road from Siteia to Palaikastro, just before the first houses of the hamlet of Haghia Triadha are reached. The results were disappointing: a day and a half's trenching exposed the scanty remains of a Minoan (probably Late Minoan III.) house, but as no signs of wealth were found, the work was discontinued.
The next site tried was Pláko, a mountain dairy a little south of Palaikastro, high up between the hill of Petsofá and Cape Pláka. Two years before the owner had cleared out a hollow underneath a projecting ledge of limestone, in order to make a cistern, and in the small deep cave so opened had found two ‘blossom’ bowls, a fine lentoid gem, a bronze ring and human remains. The objects, except the ring, which had been destroyed, were secured for the Candia Museum.
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page 1 note 1 Published by Xanthoudides, , Ἐφ. Ἀρχ. 1900, p. 25Google Scholar, Pls. 3 and 4, and 1903, p. 187. They are preserved in the Candia Museum.
page 1 note 2 This is a type of stone bowl decorated outside with five or six petals in relief, so that the bowl resembles a half-opened flower. They are common in Crete, and were found at Phylakopi (Phylakopi, p. 197, Figs. 166, 167).
page 2 note 1 B.S.A. xi. p. 290.
page 4 note 1 Described in B.S.A. x. p. 227 and figured on p. 230, Fig. 11, where the larnax on the right-hand of the photograph is of this type.
page 5 note 1 These are earthenware objects that from often being much burned inside, are likely to have been tinder-boxes. They occur on all Cretan sites (B.S.A. ix. p. 323, Fig. 23, gives two examples), and they were found at Phylakopi (Phylakopi, p. 211, Fig. 188).
page 5 note 2 B.S.A. viii. p. 314, and ix. p. 282, Fig. 3, 21.
page 6 note 1 B.S.A. x. p. 225, Fig. 8 a, and p. 229.
page 6 note 2 B.S.A. ix. pp. 293 and 311. The vase here referred to has not yet been published.
page 8 note 1 For this question see Mr. Xanthoudides' paper on Cretan kernoi in this volume, and the account of the ritual objects found in Block Δ in B.S.A. x. pp. 216 sqq. The account there given needs the correction, that the figure in the centre of the dance (Fig. 6, k, p. 217), having now been carefully cleaned, is recognised to be carrying, not a snake, but a broken lyre, of the same shape as the one on the great painted larnax from Haghia Triadha near Phaistos.