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Title: The palace of Minos : a comparative account of the successive stages of the early Cretan civilization as illustrated by the discoveries at Knossos
Year: 1921 (1920s)
Authors: Evans, Arthur, Sir, 1851-1941 Evans, Joan, 1893-1977
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Publisher: London : Macmillan and Co.
Contributing Library: Cornell University Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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nfront of the other relics in various materials. It is noteworthy, moreover,that in several Minoan sanctuaries the idols and cult objects were placed onrounded pebbles that may have been picked up on the sea shore ^ or evenof water-worn sherds.^ We have here evidently a refined and very beautifulsubstitute for this practice. The shells from the Repository (see Fig. 378) ^ ^ As in the case of the later shrine of the Mactra stultorum, Tellina (worn), tube of Double Axes in the S.E. Palace Quarter. Serpuiid worm, and piece of an Echinid. The ^ In the late (L. M. Ill b) shrine in the names were kindly supplied me by the late Prof. South-East House. W. F. R. Weldon, F.R.S., from some specimens Among them were the following species: submitted to him. The worn state of the valves Doliu7n galea, Trochus lineatus, Cardium edule, in the case of one or two examples made it Peduncuhis glycimeris, Sfondylus gaederopus, difficult to attach the specific name.Venus verrucosa, Venus muUilamellata (?),
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ow o <; H <: HH p 0 o O H< b o g s wo HO ew (2! < H o M•»! »O« 2 M.M. Ill: THE SNAKE GODDESS AND RELICS 519 bushels of which were taken out, were the ordinary sea-shells of theneighbouring coast, many varieties being included, though cockles were themost abundant. But they had been streaked and banded with brilliantartificial tints—crimson, venetian-red, orange, brown, green, and black—taste-fully applied in unison with the natural hnes and hues. The Minoans, in theirtaste for brilliant colour effects, would hardly have hesitated to gild refined

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