Egypt, 82, 93, 94, 150-155
Minoa, 10, 15
Minoan culture: date of beginning of, 147-149; periods of--Early Minoan
I., Middle Minoan II., 149, 150-155; Middle Minoan III., 155-157; Late
Minoan I., 158; Late Minoan III., pottery of, in Palestine, 167; Middle
Minoan II., catastrophe at close of, 170; Early Minoan I., 190, 191;
Early Minoan II., 191, 192; Early Minoan III., 192-194; Middle Minoan
I., 194-197; Middle Minoan II., 197-200; Middle Minoan III., 200-203;
Late Minoan I., 203-205; Late Minoan II., 205-208; Late Minoan III.,
208-210; wide diffusion of products of, 209
Minoans: physical characteristics, 211-213; dress, 213-216; houses of,
216-218
Minos: legends of, 3-18; birth of, 7; association with Zeus, 8, 253;
Sea-King, 9; conquers Megara and Athens, 10; pursues Daedalus, 14; death
of, 15; and Zeus, 105, 136; laws of, 136
Minotaur, 3, 10, 49, 258; relation of legend to Minoan religion, 256
Minyas, Treasury of, 48
Mitanni, 185
Mokhlos: excavations at, 40; necropolis at, 133, 134, 143; gold ring from, 223
Mortars, 227
Mosso, 112, 120; drainage at Hagia Triada, 129; Minoan democracy, 230;
Minoan bath rooms, 252
Mother: the Great, at Rome, 111; Anatolian, 122; Minoan, 244-247
Mouliana, tombs at, 59
Murex, 133, 222
Murray, Professor: name of Minos, 8; worship of bull-god in Crete, 253
Mycenae, 1, 5; in Homeric poems, 22; Lion Gate of, 42, 43; Treasuries of,
42, 43, 46-48; Shaft-Graves, 43-46
Mycenaean civilization, 5, 6; extent of, 50, 51; duration of, 51, 52;
inspiration of, 52-54; relation to Homeric civilization, 54-62; crafts
of, 56-58; disposal of dead, 58-60
Myres, Mr. J. L.: discovery of Kamares ware, 92, 197; figurines at Petsofa,
132

N

Naturalism, development of, 196, 201
Nausicaa, 24, 26
Naville, excavations at Deir-el-Bahri, 78
Necho, fleet of, circumnavigates Africa, 259
Neolithic Period at Knossos, 188-190
Nestor, 22; cup of, 56
Niffur, 1; drainage at, 141
Nimrud, carved ivories at, 140

O

Odysseus, 22; palace of, 25; versatility of, 26; brooch of, 56; defeats
Irus, 103
Olive-oil, export of, 222
Olive Press, Room of the, 222
Olive Spout, Court of the, 88
Olive-tree, 227
Olympiad, First, 2, 52
Opening the mouth, Egyptian funerary ceremony, 128, 251
Orchomenos, 5; in Homeric poems 22, Treasury of Minyas, 48

P

Palace, Homeric, 25, 55
Palace, the Little, 111
Palaikastro, 124; Minoan town at, 132; deposit of purple shell at, 133;
houses at, 216, 217