M. M. Ill: SEAL TYPES AND GREATER ART 683

pound type illustrated below (Fig. 536, c), showing two confronted griffins
recalling Zakro types. More isolated finds of seal-impressions were made in
M. M. Ill deposits by the ' Court of the Stone Spoutand in a rubbish heap
on the South-Eastern border of the Palace. Some of the earliest seal-
impressions from the site of the Little Palace may also have been made from
intaeflios that date from the close of this Period.

From the earliest days of the work at Knossos special efforts were
made to recover this class of material, which, from the small size of the

objects and their earthen aspect, it is most difficult
to detect. For the first time, it may be claimed, in
a great Excavation, sieves were constantly at work
in dealing with all promising deposits. The great
bulk, however, of the clay seal-impressions thus
collected, with the exception of the Hoard in the
Repository Cist, naturally belonged to the latest
Age of the Palace, and the sealings were largely
accompanied by contemporary tablets of Class B.

Examples of religious representations from the
Repository Hoard have already been given, together
with a parallel group from Hagia Triada. Another
important contemporary example of this class came
to light in the M. M. Ill rubbish heap, or so-called
Kacf)6i>doi>, on the South-Eastern border of the Palace
(Fig. 502). Two female devotees are here seen
wearing the peaked tiara which seems to have
been a characteristic of the Palace Cult at this epoch. They wear skirts
that do not show any trace of flounces, and are elegantly executed in
symmetrically facing positions, holding up in both hands an object that
has unfortunately been much obliterated, but which may with most
probability be identified with a rhyton of the pointed shape. From the
flatness and elongated shape of the field we may infer that the impression
is from the bezel of a signet-ring. On No. 5 of the Zakro sealings
a female votary robed as Fig. 500, c, above is seen with one hand raised
before a figure, which is clearly an adaptation of an adoring Cynoce-
phalus.1 An adorant dog-ape, moreover, appears as the sole type of one of
the sealings of the contemporary hoard from Hagia Triada.'2 Once more

Finds of
sealings
due to
careful
sifting of
deposits.

Religious
subjects.

Fig. 502. Clay Im-
pression of Signet-ring,
Knossos (f).

1 Hogarth, Zakro Sealings (J. H. S., xxii), p. 77 and p. 78, Fig. 4.

2 Halbherr, Mon. Ant., xiii, p. 39, Fig. 32.