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Title: The palace of Minos : a comparative account of the successive stages of the early Cretan civilization as illustrated by the discoveries at Knossos
Year: 1921 (1920s)
Authors: Evans, Arthur, Sir, 1851-1941 Evans, Joan, 1893-1977
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Publisher: London : Macmillan and Co.
Contributing Library: Cornell University Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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ctorial styletaken from the Palace wall-paintings. But we also now observe in the matureproducts of M. M. II ceramic design the growing influence of decorativemodels of an architectonic class. Of this earlier Palace style a remark-able example is afforded by the fine jar from the floor of the Loom-WeightBasement, Fig. 192, a. Here, in the double bands of lunate decorationwe recognize a direct imitation of the pattern seen on the contemporaryplaster dado, Fig. 188, d above. The crescents on the vase are alternatelycreamy white and bright red, the latter with a crimson disk. The white spiralfrieze of this vase also clearly goes back to dado decoration. See Volume II, and cf, K. Mtiller, AitA.Mitth., xxxiv (1909), PI. XXII, 2. The triplepalm group also recurs on a L. M. Ill goldmouth bandage from Enkomi (British Excavs.CypruSf PI. VII, 518) in this case accompanied by wild goats, ^ See below, pp. 269, 270. See below, p. 258, and cf. p. 268, Fig. 199. * Se.e below, p. 264, Figs. 196, 197.
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Fig. 192. Typical mature M. M. II Polychrome Vases illustrating Earlier PalaceStyle : a, Knossos ; b-g, Phaestos. a (i), b (; c), c (i), d (i-), e (i),/(;:), ^^(rV). 258 THE PALACE OF MINOS, ETC. DiskMotivesof Struc-turalOrigin. Ceiling Pattern with Lotus Designs. Corre-spond-ence ofLoom- On the other hand, the zones of disks such as are seen on the fellowvessel. Fig. 191 (in this case creamy white with crimson eyes), which appearon the dark ground, have in their origin an actual structural significance. Thedisks in fact are derived from those that in the painted stucco fagades of theMinoan buildings represent in a decorative fashion round beam ends whichrest upon the architrave in the underlying wooden framework. An inter-mediate link was moreover afforded for the vase painter by the existence ofcoloured terra-cotta models, like the Miniature Shrine found in this area, inwhich the rows of disks are seen on a reduced scale in their true architectonicrelation, as they also appear on th

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