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REACTIONS OF E. COASTAL ROAD

Sealings
found
resem-
bling
those of
Zakro
but of
Vasiliki
clay.

It came to my knowledge that at a spot near the Windmills (ora
'Av(iiofivXia) above referred to, clay sealings had from time to time been
brought out in the course of cultivation,1 resembling those of the great
Zakro deposit.2 It was possible to obtain in 1922 two recently discovered

Fig. 149. Clay Sealings of Zakro Type from Harbour Town, Knossos. (f)

specimens of these (Fig. 149, a, b), an examination of which showed that they
not only corresponded with the designs on examples of the Zakro series,
but that these were arranged in the same order.3 That the stamping had
been done by the same official, probably as part of the same Customs-
control, was therefore clear, but the remarkable feature was that the clay of

1 One from this site was acquired by
Mr. Seager in 1918, and besides the two that
passed into my own possession, I was able to
trace the existence of a fourth.

2 D. G. Hogarth, The Zakro Sealings
{J. H. S., xxii (1902), p. 76 seqq.), and cf. P. of
M., i, p. 678 and pp. 699, 700. So far as it is
possible to ascertain, no later discoveries of
these sealings have been made at Zakro itself.

5 Fig. 149, a, corresponds to Zakro {op. at.),

Nos. 21 (capped winged figure), 23 (variant of
'Eagle lady'), 61 (horned animal mask) simi-
larly grouped, Fig. 149, b, to Nos. 80 (winged
bucranium with loop), 134 (geometrical design
of curves arranged in a cruciform manner.
Oval designs of the samekind appear on Twelfth
Dynasty scarabs, cf. Fig. 110 a, p. 200 above,
/, 0, p). In this case, as on the parallel
examples from Zakro, the third side was
blank.