ABSTRACT
The interesting series of naturalistic bronze figures of men and women with their hands raised, apparently in a gesture of prayer, as they are probably mostly of L.M. I date, though some may be older. The pottery and other objects abandoned in the house give an accurate date for the catastrophe at the end of the Middle Minoan period. Generally speaking the taste of this period was more restrained than that of the preceding and succeeding ages: of all the Minoan pottery that of M.M III would most please a Japanese connoisseur. Only occasionally white spots or shading survive as the last relics of the Middle Minoan polychromy. The palace of Hagia Triada is a typical building of the First Late Minoan period. Among the written clay documents of the Third Middle Minoan period is that unparalleled object, the Phaistos Disk, with its helical inscription impressed by wooden moveable types.
