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found within the area of the Harbour Town of Knossos. It represents the
only example of an entire Minoan figure carved in stone, and at the same
time shows the most perfect modelling of the human face. In other ways,
it is of great value as a supplement to the faience figures of the Snake Goddess
and her ' votaries' given in the preceding volume. In this case the artist
has concentrated himself on the maternal aspects of the divinity and has

Fig. 134. Steatite Object, probably for Trial Designs of Some Engraver ;
from Harbour Town, Knossos.

omitted the snakes that symbolize her Underworld dominion. Otherwise the
tiara and dress are practically the same, including the sleeved jacket and
bodice,1 and the parallel with the faience ' votary' or double extends even to
the pattern of the apron and of the flounced skirt.2 We have here a con-
temporary work standing in the closest relation to the products of the
Palace faience factory of the mature M. M. Ill epoch.

The evidences of a Lapidaries' Quarter were specially abundant on the
Eastern slopes of Trypeti and near the spot called Anemomylia from two
1 Mr. Wace (pp. cit., p. 2) notes the stays lower by means of a tenon or socket already
or ' bones' and ingeniously suggests that the finds parallels among the figurines of Petsofa. Was'ers
knob belongs to a curved pin. The attach- (M. M. I a).
ment of the upper part of the body to the 2 P. of M., i, p. 502, 503, Figs. 360, 361.

Un-
finished
Stone