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The Prehistoric Tombs of Knossos.
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41. Large painted "amphora " with three handles of the same shape as the above. Heiefht
63'5 centimetres, diameter 42 centimetres. This magnificent vase, like the other, was put
together from scattered pieces, but a zone round the centre of the body was almost entirely
wanting. Happily, however, enough remained to complete the design with certainty, and
fig. 142, Plate CI., from a drawing by the Danish artist, Mr. Halvor Bagge, gives a complete
restoration of the vase. Immediately below the collar is a double band of foliage, with a
series of reduplicated edgings below directly suggested by chased metal work, such as that
of the bronze bowl from the Palace hoard shown in fig. 116 above. The conventionalised
plant ornament that surrounds the body displays a stately and quasi-architectonic style
very characteristic of the mature art of the Later Palace.
The flat upper rim of this vessel is decorated with what may be termed the wave-and-
star pattern very frequent on the Knossian Palace frescoes.a (Fig. 142&.)
Fig. 142/;. Rim of painted " amphora."
A variant of the same design, in which the stars are superimposed, as the waves recur
in the painted decoration of the hearth in the Megaron of the Palace at Mycenae. The
same pattern is also found in ivory reliefs of the period as the decoration of the wings of
griffins and sphinxes.
42. Painted " amphora " with three handles, similar to the above. Height 48 centimetres,
diameter 37 centimetres. (Fig. 143.) The upper part of this is fairly complete, bat parts of
the base are wanting. Pound the neck is a single foliate band. The band of ornament-
that runs round the shoulders of the vase varies on the two sides, both halves, however, show
spiraliform designs, probably derived from metal work. The double lines of connected
spirals in particular recall the decoration of a gold cenochoe and cup from the 'Acropolis
graves of Mycenae. The other pattern seems to be a derivative form of the simpler
a See Fyfe, "Painted Plaster Decoration at Knossos": Journ. B. I. B. A. x. 127, where it is
referred to as "tooth ornament."
547
41. Large painted "amphora " with three handles of the same shape as the above. Heiefht
63'5 centimetres, diameter 42 centimetres. This magnificent vase, like the other, was put
together from scattered pieces, but a zone round the centre of the body was almost entirely
wanting. Happily, however, enough remained to complete the design with certainty, and
fig. 142, Plate CI., from a drawing by the Danish artist, Mr. Halvor Bagge, gives a complete
restoration of the vase. Immediately below the collar is a double band of foliage, with a
series of reduplicated edgings below directly suggested by chased metal work, such as that
of the bronze bowl from the Palace hoard shown in fig. 116 above. The conventionalised
plant ornament that surrounds the body displays a stately and quasi-architectonic style
very characteristic of the mature art of the Later Palace.
The flat upper rim of this vessel is decorated with what may be termed the wave-and-
star pattern very frequent on the Knossian Palace frescoes.a (Fig. 142&.)
Fig. 142/;. Rim of painted " amphora."
A variant of the same design, in which the stars are superimposed, as the waves recur
in the painted decoration of the hearth in the Megaron of the Palace at Mycenae. The
same pattern is also found in ivory reliefs of the period as the decoration of the wings of
griffins and sphinxes.
42. Painted " amphora " with three handles, similar to the above. Height 48 centimetres,
diameter 37 centimetres. (Fig. 143.) The upper part of this is fairly complete, bat parts of
the base are wanting. Pound the neck is a single foliate band. The band of ornament-
that runs round the shoulders of the vase varies on the two sides, both halves, however, show
spiraliform designs, probably derived from metal work. The double lines of connected
spirals in particular recall the decoration of a gold cenochoe and cup from the 'Acropolis
graves of Mycenae. The other pattern seems to be a derivative form of the simpler
a See Fyfe, "Painted Plaster Decoration at Knossos": Journ. B. I. B. A. x. 127, where it is
referred to as "tooth ornament."