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•516 The Prehistoric Tombs of Knossos.
of the British School at Palaikastro in East Crete." Mr. R. M. Dawkins" has
rightly insisted on " the slightly mechanical scheme of decoration in which the
field is parcelled out by a rigidly disposed system of lines and thickly covered with
patterns, very commonly with rows of leaves set closely together." He charac-
terises this class of ceramic decoration as the " close style." It betrays indeed
many anticipations of the succeeding Geometrical class.
It must at the same time be observed that the apparent decadence observable
is this " close style," as compared with the finer fabrics of the later Palace of
Knossos, does not necessarily imply any great discrepancy of date. The quasi- one r
Geometrical features here observable were, as has been pointed out, in many cases
anticipated by the painted wall decoration of the Palace itself. The ceramic style
that we have here to deal with in fact represents that of the period immediately
succeeding the fall of Knossian Palace, and the nearest chronological equations at
hand point to the close of the Eighteenth or the early part of the Nineteenth
Dynasty. Thus the conventionalised papyrus sprays0 and closely akin scale
pattern'1 of some of these vessels, and of the painted larnax (fig. 103), show a
considerable resemblance to those on the iEgean sherds from the Palace of
Akhanaten at Tell-el-Amarna, dating from the beginning of the early years of the
fourteenth century B.C., and to others from Kahun belonging to the close of the
Eighteenth or beginning of the Nineteenth Dynasty. In the present cemetery
examples of these conventionalised sprays, for which the papyrus of Egyptian art
seems to have supplied the original suggestion, occurred on vessels from Grave
No. 99, which also contained an Egyptian scarab of a class typical of the latest
Eighteenth Dynasty period.
a Some of the parallels are very close, The festoon pattern of 16 may be compared with that
of B. S. A. ix. p. 317, fig. 16 (2). It is itself of Palace origin. The combination of an attenuated
foliate band with one of chevrons seen in the three-handled amphora 6a, is repeated in the Palaikastro
jug loc. cit. fig. 16 (1). b B. S. A. ix. 316.
c E.g. 64&, 70c, and the end of the larnax from Tomb 100. Compare the types given by Petrie.
Tell-el-Amarna, pi. xxvii. 33, pi. xxviii. 63, pi. xxx. 125, 126. For the rayed shoots as seen on some
of the Tell-el-Amarna fragments (pi. xxvii. 35, 36, xxviii. 67) compare those on the side of the
larnax. Certain varieties of the Tell-el-Amarna sprays do not occur in the present cemetery. On
the other hand the spray on the stirrup-vase 54a is not found on the Egyptian site: the parallel tact
here shows a certain contemporaneity, but not identity of fabric. The reserved, light on dark,
sprays of some of the Tell-el-Amarna fragments (pi. xxvii. 27-34) are remarkable examples of
adherence to an archaic tradition. '(),
d E.g. 5a, 21a. This'is really a truncated version of the former motive. Compare 5a and Tell-
el-Amarna, pi. xxviii. 59, pi. xxix. 73.
•516 The Prehistoric Tombs of Knossos.
of the British School at Palaikastro in East Crete." Mr. R. M. Dawkins" has
rightly insisted on " the slightly mechanical scheme of decoration in which the
field is parcelled out by a rigidly disposed system of lines and thickly covered with
patterns, very commonly with rows of leaves set closely together." He charac-
terises this class of ceramic decoration as the " close style." It betrays indeed
many anticipations of the succeeding Geometrical class.
It must at the same time be observed that the apparent decadence observable
is this " close style," as compared with the finer fabrics of the later Palace of
Knossos, does not necessarily imply any great discrepancy of date. The quasi- one r
Geometrical features here observable were, as has been pointed out, in many cases
anticipated by the painted wall decoration of the Palace itself. The ceramic style
that we have here to deal with in fact represents that of the period immediately
succeeding the fall of Knossian Palace, and the nearest chronological equations at
hand point to the close of the Eighteenth or the early part of the Nineteenth
Dynasty. Thus the conventionalised papyrus sprays0 and closely akin scale
pattern'1 of some of these vessels, and of the painted larnax (fig. 103), show a
considerable resemblance to those on the iEgean sherds from the Palace of
Akhanaten at Tell-el-Amarna, dating from the beginning of the early years of the
fourteenth century B.C., and to others from Kahun belonging to the close of the
Eighteenth or beginning of the Nineteenth Dynasty. In the present cemetery
examples of these conventionalised sprays, for which the papyrus of Egyptian art
seems to have supplied the original suggestion, occurred on vessels from Grave
No. 99, which also contained an Egyptian scarab of a class typical of the latest
Eighteenth Dynasty period.
a Some of the parallels are very close, The festoon pattern of 16 may be compared with that
of B. S. A. ix. p. 317, fig. 16 (2). It is itself of Palace origin. The combination of an attenuated
foliate band with one of chevrons seen in the three-handled amphora 6a, is repeated in the Palaikastro
jug loc. cit. fig. 16 (1). b B. S. A. ix. 316.
c E.g. 64&, 70c, and the end of the larnax from Tomb 100. Compare the types given by Petrie.
Tell-el-Amarna, pi. xxvii. 33, pi. xxviii. 63, pi. xxx. 125, 126. For the rayed shoots as seen on some
of the Tell-el-Amarna fragments (pi. xxvii. 35, 36, xxviii. 67) compare those on the side of the
larnax. Certain varieties of the Tell-el-Amarna sprays do not occur in the present cemetery. On
the other hand the spray on the stirrup-vase 54a is not found on the Egyptian site: the parallel tact
here shows a certain contemporaneity, but not identity of fabric. The reserved, light on dark,
sprays of some of the Tell-el-Amarna fragments (pi. xxvii. 27-34) are remarkable examples of
adherence to an archaic tradition. '(),
d E.g. 5a, 21a. This'is really a truncated version of the former motive. Compare 5a and Tell-
el-Amarna, pi. xxviii. 59, pi. xxix. 73.