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stamens. The piece's 'are much pulvcrised ; only in one case has ifc been
possiblü to unite a fiower with the border, which consisted of a narrow white
stripe and a broader black one, and in no case to bring two blies into relation
with one anothcr. It appears certain that they were sprinkled singly over
the crimson field, and laid diagonally. In the conjectural restoration drawn
for me by Mr. Theodore Fyfe (Fig. G4) the alternate blies are inverted on the
analogy of the inlaid dagger-blade from Mycenae.
At Phylakopi a similar lily appears on the carved faces of an ivory tinial
(below, p. 193, Fig. 163), and painted in white on a pithos of red earthen-
ware (Plate XXIV. 9); it has been found in red on white wall-plaster at
Thera (Perrot et Cbipiez, La G'rece Primitive Fig. 211); and Mr. Evans has
Orinmon.
Fiti. Gi.—Design of Lilies. (Reconstructed. 3 : 10.)
recently published a clay seal-impression from Cnossos representing a hand
grasping a fiower of this form {B.S.A. viii. p. 78).
§ 4.—The Original Position and Agc of ilw.se Pichircs.
The circumstahees under which these remains of paintings were found
have been described by Mr. Hogarth {B.S.A. iv. p. 15 and p. 17 of the present
volume) and Mr. Mackenzie {B.S.A. iv. p. 26). It is probable that the
Flying-fish Frieze and the other pioture or pictures found with it, were
enclosed in frames (see the evidence on p. 71), and that they were fixed in
the walls at a height where they would not be rubbed by the Shoulders of
passers-by. Cretan analogies suggest the possibility that they decorated a
megaron above the small compartment in which they lay, and that it and the
adjoining rooms which have no visible ingress were basement rooms; in
that case the Square pier in the room of the paintings was the support of a
column in the megaron. A stone column-base was discovered in a room
on the west side of the same block, resting on loose earth and perhaps
H. C. BOSANQUET
stamens. The piece's 'are much pulvcrised ; only in one case has ifc been
possiblü to unite a fiower with the border, which consisted of a narrow white
stripe and a broader black one, and in no case to bring two blies into relation
with one anothcr. It appears certain that they were sprinkled singly over
the crimson field, and laid diagonally. In the conjectural restoration drawn
for me by Mr. Theodore Fyfe (Fig. G4) the alternate blies are inverted on the
analogy of the inlaid dagger-blade from Mycenae.
At Phylakopi a similar lily appears on the carved faces of an ivory tinial
(below, p. 193, Fig. 163), and painted in white on a pithos of red earthen-
ware (Plate XXIV. 9); it has been found in red on white wall-plaster at
Thera (Perrot et Cbipiez, La G'rece Primitive Fig. 211); and Mr. Evans has
Orinmon.
Fiti. Gi.—Design of Lilies. (Reconstructed. 3 : 10.)
recently published a clay seal-impression from Cnossos representing a hand
grasping a fiower of this form {B.S.A. viii. p. 78).
§ 4.—The Original Position and Agc of ilw.se Pichircs.
The circumstahees under which these remains of paintings were found
have been described by Mr. Hogarth {B.S.A. iv. p. 15 and p. 17 of the present
volume) and Mr. Mackenzie {B.S.A. iv. p. 26). It is probable that the
Flying-fish Frieze and the other pioture or pictures found with it, were
enclosed in frames (see the evidence on p. 71), and that they were fixed in
the walls at a height where they would not be rubbed by the Shoulders of
passers-by. Cretan analogies suggest the possibility that they decorated a
megaron above the small compartment in which they lay, and that it and the
adjoining rooms which have no visible ingress were basement rooms; in
that case the Square pier in the room of the paintings was the support of a
column in the megaron. A stone column-base was discovered in a room
on the west side of the same block, resting on loose earth and perhaps