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A. J. Evans
inlay from one of the Kaselles and an ivory example from the Repository with
which we are dealing ; and a rosette of a type of which more than one
faience reproduction has been found within the Palace. The other sides of
the mould exhibit respectively matrices of two very graceful consoles1 (see
Fig. 43) forming part of a cornice that ran perhaps along the upper border
of an inlaid chest, and a clenched human hand, about half the natural size,
with the little finger sticking out—possibly an amulet. The cornices when
completed by the piecing together of sections such as those seen in the
PLAN ON TOP
Fig. 43.—Development of Frieze Based on Console from Mould (about -j scale).
mould supply a new and extremely elegant architectonic feature which
was no doubt carried out on a larger scale in Minoan buildings.
A piece of a Sacral Knot and a plaque for inlaying of similar faience
ware were found in the Fourth Shaft Grave at Mycenae,2 vases, from Grave
II., and a fragment with a head of a warrior from Grave III. But, while
these and a few other isolated examples supply the only record of this
fabric on mainland sites, we see from the abundance and variety of the faience
1 a plain example of such a console in native faience was found in the Palace (near the Southern
Terrace). Degenerations of similar consoles in glass paste are not infrequent in 'Late' Mycenaean
deposits. For the matrix of one such found at Mycenae, see above, p. 61, note 1.
- Schliemann, Mycenae, I. 241, Nos. 350, 351.
A. J. Evans
inlay from one of the Kaselles and an ivory example from the Repository with
which we are dealing ; and a rosette of a type of which more than one
faience reproduction has been found within the Palace. The other sides of
the mould exhibit respectively matrices of two very graceful consoles1 (see
Fig. 43) forming part of a cornice that ran perhaps along the upper border
of an inlaid chest, and a clenched human hand, about half the natural size,
with the little finger sticking out—possibly an amulet. The cornices when
completed by the piecing together of sections such as those seen in the
PLAN ON TOP
Fig. 43.—Development of Frieze Based on Console from Mould (about -j scale).
mould supply a new and extremely elegant architectonic feature which
was no doubt carried out on a larger scale in Minoan buildings.
A piece of a Sacral Knot and a plaque for inlaying of similar faience
ware were found in the Fourth Shaft Grave at Mycenae,2 vases, from Grave
II., and a fragment with a head of a warrior from Grave III. But, while
these and a few other isolated examples supply the only record of this
fabric on mainland sites, we see from the abundance and variety of the faience
1 a plain example of such a console in native faience was found in the Palace (near the Southern
Terrace). Degenerations of similar consoles in glass paste are not infrequent in 'Late' Mycenaean
deposits. For the matrix of one such found at Mycenae, see above, p. 61, note 1.
- Schliemann, Mycenae, I. 241, Nos. 350, 351.