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ware" painted with a blue white and purple-red pattern on a hard-baked surface with a metallic lustre. | This remarkable example, unrivalled even by those from the palace at Knossos, is about the size of a teacup and only weighs less than 100 /grammes. Its walls are as thin as the finest Chinese porcelain.
It has been shown at Ras Shamra that Middle Minoan Crete was not content with merely trading with Ugarit. Merchants from the island had settled down in this Syrian port and had founded a flourishing colony which controlled Ugarit's maritime commerce. Their burial _v_aults, which we have found under their houses, show us that in spite of the eastern influences to which they were subjected and which had turned them into, as it were, Levantines, these Cretans had remained firmly
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