ON AllCniEOLOGICAL AND ETHNOGRAPHICAL RESEARCHES IN CRETE. 409 



APPENDIX A. 



Exploration at Knossos : Report for 1906. 



Dr. Arthur Evans returned to Crete in April, and remained there two 

 months, working over materials. He completed a series of tracings of the 

 hieroglyphic and other inscribed tablets with the aid of photography, and 

 the Italian Mission kindly allowed him to make a careful record of the 

 inscriptions found by them in the small Palace of Hagia Triada. 



With M. Gillieron's aid, Dr. Evans was able to work at some 

 improved systems of reconstitution for the frescoes with miniature groups 

 and of a crowned male personage in low relief. 



No excavation was attempted this year, but certain works of conser- 

 vation were carritd out with the aid of the architect, Mr. Christian Doll. 

 These include the support of the gypsum slabs above the cists of the 

 Long Gallery and some necessary work in the Domestic Quarter. 

 Various investigations were also made which resulted in the discovery of 

 a cemetery going back to the Geometric Period, affording a new class of 

 polychrome ware, and, on the hill west of the Palace, of remains showing 

 the proximity of a small and very archaic Doric temple. 



APPENDIX B. 



Excavations at Palaikastro : Report for 1906. 



Though no grant was available for further excavation at Palaikastro, 

 it seems desirable to complete previous reports by a brief account of a 

 small supplementary excavation which was undertaken on that site in 

 March 1906 by Messrs. Dawkins and Droop, of the Bx-itish School of 

 Archreology in Athetis. 



After a few days spent in the sinking of trial trenches and pits, the 

 excavators cleared a cave in the neighbourhood of the site known as 

 Ptoussolakkos. This was entirely filled with earth containing a quantity 

 of bones and sherds, and in the furthest recesses of the cave wei'e found 

 three clay larnakes filled with skulls, loose bones, and pottery. These 

 have been removed to the museum at Candia. The remains belong to the 

 period called by Dr. Evans ' Late Minoan III.,' and are the earliest of that 

 period yet discovered, the biigelkanne type of vase being entirely absent. 

 It seems unlikely that further results of importance are to be obtained 

 from this site, as the complete clearing of the cave was made impossible 

 by the danger of the falling-in of the roof. 



Good pi'Ogress has been made in preparing the results of the whole 

 series of excavations at Palaikastro for exhibition and publication. Mr. 

 Dawkins has spent over three months at Candia, and the Director of the 

 British School a month and a half. The former has rearranged the 

 Palaikastro collection in the museum : it now fills seven glass cases, not 

 including the larnakes and large pamted jars, which are exhibited sepa- 

 rately. 



A full account of the whole of the results from Palaikastro will be 

 published in due course. 



