The Palace of Knossos: Provisional Report for the Year 1903 (in: The Annual of the British School at Athens, 9.1902/1903, S. 1-153) (London, 1903)

Kxossos Excavations, 1903.

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forms the inner border and at the same time supplies the links of con-
nexion for the lily chain, finds its more subdued counterpart on the outer
margin in the suggestion of continuous bordering given by the flowing
lines of the flame-like sprays.

Via. 81.—Bronze Basin with Lily Borde

The conventional lilies themselves, like the beading, belong to jewellery.
They recall, in fact the fleur-de-lis collar of the gesso durd relief from the
Palace, as well as the lily crown found with it. Gold pendants of similar