^{page 286 note 1} The spelling Palaikastro (Παλαίκαστρο) expresses the local pronunciation and is convenient as distinguishing this site from many others called Παλαιοκάστρο

^{page 287 note 1} Taken from a point midway between Karoumes and Πάτημα on the southern margin ot Plate XV.

^{page 287 note 2} For the geography of the Eteocretan region as a whole see Mr. Hogarth's paper on Zakro, , B.S.A. vii. pp. 121Google Scholarsqq.: for the physical formation of the Palaikastro plain, Spratt, , Travels and Researches, i. 205Google Scholarsqq., and Raulin, , Description physique de la Créte, Paris 1869, p. 170.Google Scholar The antiquities of the region were described by Professor Halbherr in four papers contributed to the Antiquary, 1891, pp. 201, 241, and 1892, pp. 152, 214. Here as at Praesos I had the use, thanks to Mr. Evans' kindness, of his unpublished notes of journeys in the district.

^{page 288 note 1} Dittenberger, Sylloge, 929

^{page 293 note 1} No. 40. Tall jar of grey ill-fired clay, with small pouring-lip and two handles just below the rim. Ht. ·20 m.; diam. at base, ·10; at mouth, ·17. Laid on its side, containing bones of an infant.

^{page 296 note 1} One of them was found outside the S. E. angle of the enclosure, near a skeleton stretched at full length, the only instance of normal inhumation found in this excavation.

^{page 297 note 1} See Orsi, , Urne funebri cretesi in Monumenti Antichi 1. (1890)Google Scholar, and Perrot and Chipiez, La Gré primitive, pp. 455, 456.

^{page 298 note 1} They are indicated on Plate XVIII.

^{page 298 note 2} It has been suggested that these larnakes were carried by means of poles thrust through the vertical side-handles. I doubt if they would stand the strain; their attachment to the clay of the sides is quite superficial. No doubt they were usually made within easy reach of the tomb.

^{page 299 note 1} Many have been discovered by the peasants at Palaikastro; see Spratt, , Travels in Crete, i. p. 210.Google Scholar One is built in near a well to serve as a wash-tub, another filled with soil and used as a huge flower-pot. All the crosses on the map (Plate XV), west of those at the foot of Kastri, mark spots where they have been found. Near Turloti I saw one in use as the recipient of a wine-press.

^{page 299 note 2} ᾿Εφ.᾿Αρχ 1890, πιν 3, 4.

^{page 300 note 1} These will be published in an article by Mr. R. M. Dawkins on the Palaikastro pottery.

^{page 306 note 1} Jar (ht. ·34 m., mouth-diameter ·24) with two handles and spout on shoulder; tall, rather slender psendamphora (ht. ·41); two pithoi (hi. ·75, diam. of mouth ·38).

^{page 306 note 2} A thin tumbler, black with white bands, and a spouted ‘hole-mouth’ ar with a sprinkled rock-work pattern on reddish ground.

^{page 308 note 1} See Plate XVII., Fig. 3, the second from the left in the upper row.

^{page 312 note 1} It may be suspected that a much ruined compartment in House B at Knossos, (B.S.A. vi. Pl. V. facing p. 74Google Scholar) was a bath-room. It was not sunk, however, in this respect resembling the bathroom attached to the ‘Queen's Megaron’ of the adjoining Palace.

^{page 314 note 1} The wall has now (April, 1903) been tested at this point, and a doorway, not shown in the plan, has been found, connecting 10 and 7.

^{page 315 note 1} See the table of brick-dimensions given by Dörpfeld in Schliemann's Tiryns, p. 260.

^{page 316 note 1} For the original habitat of wheat see a paper by Mr. Newberry in Prof. Petrie's Hawara, Biahmu and Arsinoe, pp. 49–50. For the garden-pea, cultivated from time immemorial in Europe (Theophrastus, , Hist. Plant. viii. 3 and 5Google Scholar), and in Egypt from the twelfth dynasty onwards, see his remarks in Kahun, Gurob and Hawara, p. 50. Pisum elatius is widely distributed in the Southern Mediterranean region.