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II. Further Objects from the Cave of Trapeza

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 October 2013

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The following objects, all said to be from the Cave of Trapeza or immediately outside, were recovered from the peasants in 1937 and 1938.

1. (Fig. 1a). Pedestalled cup in mottled limestone. This joins one of the fragments numbered 16 in the catalogue. Height 4·4 cms., diameter 5·3 cms.; cf. a finer example from Mokhlos, Tomb XXI, No. 7. Probably EM II but, owing to its coarser shape might be EM III.

2. (Fig. 1a). Small lid in brown steatite pierced for strings to tie it on to a vase. Height 1·0 cm., greatest diameter 2·9 cms. Cf. caps of clay vases EM I, e.g., from Agios Onouphrios (P of M I Fig. 23). EM II.

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