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traditional types. Thiere is reason, however, to think that flying-fish were a
favourite motive in the design of the period.
Representations of them in glass paste have been found at Cnossos
(excavations of 1903) together with rockwork of the same material, in the
remains of a shrine belonging to the earlier period of the Palace; Mr. Evans
bcheves that they formed a decorative panel in low relief. They also appear
ml a clay seal-impression found at Cnossos, and in glass paste among the
ornaments from the tomb at Spata.1 It is possible that they were repre-
sented on an inlaid sword-blade deposited in the Vaphio tomb; the blade
has perished, but fragments of the inlay were recovered in the excavation;
among them is a gold wing in open-work and a complete fish of some other
kind (figured in Perrot et Chipiez, La Grbee Primitive, p. IOC). The shaft
gravcs of Mycenae furnishcd two representations of dolphins in lively
movement, cngraved on a gold cup, and modelled in plaster on the surface of
an ostrich-egg.
§ 2.—The Fragments of Larger Pictures.
In the same room with the flying-fish were found fragments of other
paintings on a larger scalo. One was a second sea-piece, the remains of which
Fig. UO.—Fragments of Paikted Plaster: Marine Design. (1 : 4.)
are distinguishable. by the absence of the black border, by the greater size
and coarser clrawing of the rocks, and by the fact that the sea is coloured
blue, not merely indicated by wreaths of spray. The fragments are relatively
few, and seem to come from the upper or lower part of the panel; nothing
remains of the central part and of the fish which one may suppose to have
been painted there. The most interesting are collected in Fig. 60: on the
right a characteiistic piece of knobbed rock with a sea-egg attached to it,
then a longer strip of rock showing in the foreground another sea-egg and a
rounded blue mass covered with a familiär Mycenaean pattern of overlapping
scales drawn in black, which may be interpreted in several ways.
1 B.C.H, ii. PI, xvi. ] and 2 ; on p. 201 they are wrongly desoi ibed as dolphins.
R. C. BOSANQTJET
traditional types. Thiere is reason, however, to think that flying-fish were a
favourite motive in the design of the period.
Representations of them in glass paste have been found at Cnossos
(excavations of 1903) together with rockwork of the same material, in the
remains of a shrine belonging to the earlier period of the Palace; Mr. Evans
bcheves that they formed a decorative panel in low relief. They also appear
ml a clay seal-impression found at Cnossos, and in glass paste among the
ornaments from the tomb at Spata.1 It is possible that they were repre-
sented on an inlaid sword-blade deposited in the Vaphio tomb; the blade
has perished, but fragments of the inlay were recovered in the excavation;
among them is a gold wing in open-work and a complete fish of some other
kind (figured in Perrot et Chipiez, La Grbee Primitive, p. IOC). The shaft
gravcs of Mycenae furnishcd two representations of dolphins in lively
movement, cngraved on a gold cup, and modelled in plaster on the surface of
an ostrich-egg.
§ 2.—The Fragments of Larger Pictures.
In the same room with the flying-fish were found fragments of other
paintings on a larger scalo. One was a second sea-piece, the remains of which
Fig. UO.—Fragments of Paikted Plaster: Marine Design. (1 : 4.)
are distinguishable. by the absence of the black border, by the greater size
and coarser clrawing of the rocks, and by the fact that the sea is coloured
blue, not merely indicated by wreaths of spray. The fragments are relatively
few, and seem to come from the upper or lower part of the panel; nothing
remains of the central part and of the fish which one may suppose to have
been painted there. The most interesting are collected in Fig. 60: on the
right a characteiistic piece of knobbed rock with a sea-egg attached to it,
then a longer strip of rock showing in the foreground another sea-egg and a
rounded blue mass covered with a familiär Mycenaean pattern of overlapping
scales drawn in black, which may be interpreted in several ways.
1 B.C.H, ii. PI, xvi. ] and 2 ; on p. 201 they are wrongly desoi ibed as dolphins.