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 4,2): Camp-stool Fresco, long-robed priests and beneficent genii [...] (London, 1935)

'FLAT-SIDED' DISKS—PRECURSORS OF LENTOIDS

Fig.418a. 'Horned Sheep'
Lattice-work above : ' Flat-
sided ' Disk : Central Crete

its filling of upright bars joined together by
diagonal lines, links this to
a common class of bead-
seals of the same flat-sided
shape, elsewhere explained
as a conventional attempt
to represent a facade of a
building (Fig. 418/5).1

These flat-sided disks
are the successors of a
similar type in ivory and
soft stone, of M. M. I a
association, with engraved
designs both on the upper
and the lower surface. They

Fig.,4184 'Flat-
sided ' Disk with
Facade oe Build-
ing showing Lat-
tice-work.

are finally assimilated to the true lentoid form by transitional stages.

Of the true

Fig. 419. Lentoid
of Yellow Steatite
near gortvna,
Traces of Red Ikl
Material. (The IV

RESEMBLES THAT OF A

II a Polychrome

(c- 1700 B.C.).)

showing remains
This, then, was

' //'-.PP-564,565, l''i
duced in Fig. 418*).

The Lentoid Type.

lentoid type a quite recent find in the Gortyna district has
produced an example ofgreatchrono-
logical import (see Fig. 419). It is of
yellow steatite and presents a foliate
pattern closely akin to the central
device on
a highly

decorative polychrome

pot from the North West

Treasure House at

Knossos"- of mature

M.M. II a date (inset).

It is further remarkable

in another way, a part

of the incised design
of a bright red filling material.
not a seal but an ornamental

Bead

FROM
WITH
AYING
ITERN
L. M.

Vase

Fig. 419/«'.t. Head of Dervish
Priest from Little Palace.

. 411, a-d (c 2 is repro-

- See J', of M., i, p. 246, Fig. L86,s, and
cf. Coloured Plate HI.