Evans, Arthur J.: The Palace of Minos: a comparative account of the successive stages of the early Cretan civilization as illustred by the discoveries at Knossos (Band 4,1): Emergence of outer western enceinte, with new illustrations, artistic and religious, of the Middle Minoan Phase (London, 1935)

LATEST POTTERY IN BOTH OF SAME L. M. I a CLASS 243

illustrated by Eighteenth-Dynasty Egyptian examples. On the Tiryns
frieze1 it appears in a form closely dependent on that of the Knossos
Megaron.

We have here the evidence of a relic of an intermediate epoch, answering

Hk

Fig. 183. Tri

mm

' Pot-hooks' and Triquetral Designs : a, b,c on Gold Disks,
Mycenae ; d, Minoan Seal.

apparently to the mature

LiM. la phase, from its

original place of deposit.

The lower limits of

the continuous use of

these two tholoi cannot

be- ascertained from the

confused data preserved,

but as a general rule it

appears that wherever,

either at Mycenae itself

or in the case of other

bee-hive tombs of the

Morea, such as those of Vapheio,2 the Messenian Pylos3 or that of Nestor

(Kakovatos)4, the last pottery of the continuous series of interments belongs

to the same late L. M. I b stage, including: also those here classed as c and

Latest
of the
continu-
ous

ceramic
relics in
tholoi
and
Shaft
Graves—
L. M. I b.

OF

Fig. 184. Gold Plate with Embossed Design
Spirals and Papyrus. Restored by Monsieur E. Gil-

LIERON, 1<TLS : ABOUT 2 DIAMETERS.

1 Schliemann, Tiryns, PI. V, pp. 298, 299 ;
Rodenwaldt, Fries dcs Megarons, PL VII and
p. 43 seqq. Dr. Rodenwaldt rightly recognized
the close relationship of the Tiryntbian design
with that of the Knossian fragment reproduced
by him, op. at,, p. 45, Fig. 14.

■ Tsountas, 'E<£. 'Ap^., 1889, PL VII,
17 ; Bbsanquet, f. II. S., xxiv (1904), PL XI
and p. 317 seqq.

3 See K. Kuroniotes, !E<£. \Vx-> I9M,
p. 114, Figs. 25, 26. In p. 104 seqq. are
given a series of specimens of L. M. Ill b
pottery, mostly of 'Metope Style' that appear
here per saltum and belong to a later strati-
graphic horizon.

1 K. Miiller, Alh. Mitt/i., 1909, PL XVI
seqq.