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The palaces of Crete and their builders (1907)

Mosso, A. (Angelo), 1846-1910 · London, Unwin · leaf 159

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er it wasfound that even in the Stone Age similar round huts existed in thelake dwellings, and then they were discovered further off, inEgypt and in Crete ; and these are more ancient and thereforenearer their origin. Similar models in terracotta were found inthe Forum Romanum at Rome.^ The… … FIG. 69.—TERRACOTTA MODEL OE A HUT FOUXD AT PH.^STOS. When the people who introduced cremation into Italv firstarrived there, they did not use these hut-shaped ossuaries, at leastso say Pigorini and Orsi. They accepted this form which alreadyexisted in Italv, and we now know that the most ancient…

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