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II. Early Town and Cemeteries

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 October 2013

D. G. Hogarth
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The operations of the British School for the first two months of the excavation season of 1900 extended more or less over the whole site of Knosso the summit of the Kephala hillock excepted, which had been bought and reserved by Mr. Evans. In selecting this wide area I had for objective the cemeteries prior to the Geometric Period, the situation of which was, and I regret to say still is, unknown. In the event I found what I had not expected, namely a well-preserved early town.

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Knossos
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Annual of the British School at Athens , Volume 6 , 1900 , pp. 70 - 85
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Copyright © The Council, British School at Athens 1900

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page 72 note 1 It is worth suggesting that there is some connection between these pits, which are not suitable for holding either grain or water, and the (probably) baetylic shrines hard by (House B). Pits would hardly be dug expressly to contain pottery, unless there were a religious or superstitious reason for carefully hiding it. I suggest that these pits contained the remains of dedicated vessels, removed, when no longer needed, from risk of profanation, just as did the trench in the Apolline precinct at Naukratis (Petrie, , Nauk. I., p. 20Google Scholar), and, probably, a pit found full of early ware just outside the walls of Phylakopi, in Melos, . (B.S.A., iii. p. 19.)Google Scholar