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sealing, reproduced above.1 In the present case a parallel example is
seen on the contemporary seal impression, just referred to, from the
W. Temple Repository, Fig. 411, a, where squares of masonry are shown
on one side, and on the other the upper part of a doorway—a feature very
characteristic of these designs. The potter's seal had no doubt broken in
the course of signing a long series of similar store jars, but the fact that its
type had consisted of a conventional facade of a building may well suggest
a reference to the Palace itself. We may have here in fact the cachet'1
of a master-potter who executed his craft by official appointment. It
emphasizes, indeed, the palatial style of these fine store jars.

a

Fig. 411. a, Half Seal Impression from Temple Repository showing Part of
Door and Squares of Masonry ; b, Fragmentary Seal Impression from Do. ;

c, Crystal Intaglio with Conventional Facade of Building, Knossos District •

d, Red J A s P E R. Do., Central Crete. (-J c.)

Partly in the Middle Bay of the first Section of the Royal Magazines, and Store of
partly in a small niche or ' loculus' near the entrance of its ad j oining Corridor/ and Other
and on a level with its pavement, there came to light a series of vessels of Pots-
quite a unique character, of which typical specimens are shown in Fig. 412.4

These vessels were often of plain clay, at times smoke-stained, but
in many cases there was evidence that their surface had been covered with the
purplish brown glaze medium usual at this time. Great elaboration is
observable in some of their forms (Fig. 412).

The small high-necked jugs and the cups, some of them handled, some

1 See p. 308, Fig. 227, a. glyphic signature of Class B, has been given

2 An example of an earlier cachet of a potter above, p. 242, Fig. 182, c.

who made fine vessels of 'metallic' type, on :: See Plan, Fig. 236, p. 323, above.

a goblet from Palaikastro, presenting a hiero- 4 Compare Knossos, Report, 1901, pp. 85, 86.