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; Linear Script at, 236 Papyrus: Turin, 148; Kahun, 148; Golenischeff, 186 Pashley describes ruins at Knossos, 63 Pasiphae, wife of Minos, 10, 18, 252 Paul, St., Epistle to Titus, 8 Pausanias, on Tomb of Agamemnon, 37, 42, 43 Pelasgi, 161, 167 Pelethites=Philistines, 168 Peloponnese, 6 Pen, the, used in Minoan writing, 241 Penelope, 24 Pepy, statue of, 113 Percentages on Minoan tablets, 238 Perdix slain by Daedalus, 14 Periphetes slain by Hector, 61 Pernier, Dr., stele at Gortyna, 182; work at Phrestos, 118 Perrot, M., Minoan writing, 233 Petrie, Professor: discovers AEgean remains in Egypt, 51; plan of Egyptian town, 97; Egyptian Sed Festival, 255; identification of Zakkaru, 166; Egyptian chronology, 194, 199; Minoan pottery at Abydos, 142, 191; sea-route between Crete and Egypt, 144, 145; Egyptian chronology, 148; Kamares ware at Kahun, 150 Petsofa: figurines, 126, 132, 195, 213, 215; votive offerings at, 168 Phaestos, 5; in Homeric poems, 117; discovery of Palace, 118; Theatral Area, 118, 119; destruction of palace, 119; staircase, 120; Megaron, 120; Central Court, 120; hieroglyphic disc, 121, 122; lords of, destroy Knossos, 171; sack of, 175, 176; earliest buildings at, 197; first sack of Knossos, 200; beehive tombs at, 229; Linear Script at, 236 Philistines: on reliefs at Medinet Habu, 121; invade Egypt, 165, 166, 186; settle in Palestine, 166-169 Phoenicians: relation to Minoan culture, 53; invention of alphabet, 64; writing, 81, 243; purple dye of, 132, 133; not the Keftiu, 159 Phylakopi, 51; Linear Script at, 236 Pictographs: beginnings of, 194; decline of, 202, 204; development of, 234 Pillars, sacred, 70, 246 Piracy in Homeric poems, 22 Pithoi, 64, 69, 202, 206 Pits. See Dungeons Plato, legend of Atlantis, 257-259 Pliny, Labyrinth of Hawara, 152 Plutarch, story of Theseus, 103 Polychrome ware, 104, 132, 172; beginnings of, 194, 195; development of, 197-199 Polycrates, sea-power of, 9 Polyphemus, 22 Porcelain plaques on chest, 97 Portico: southern, Knossos, 68; western, 66, 83, 84 Potter's wheel, introduction of, 193 Praesians, account of Greek settlement in Crete, 180 Praesos, 15 Priam, Palace of, 25, 39; Treasure of, 38, 39, 40, 41 Priestesses (Priests) in Minoan religion, 251 Procession, Corridor of the, Knossos, 67 Proclus, portraits of men of Atlantis in Egypt, 259 Procrustes slain by Theseus, 11 Psamtek I., 152, 169 Psychro, 136 Pulosathu = Philistines, _q.v._ Punt, Egyptian voyages to, 146 Purple, 133, 222 Q Querns, Minoan, 227 R