Evans, Arthur J.: The Palace of Minos: a comparative account of the successive stages of the early Cretan civilization as illustred by the discoveries at Knossos (Band 1): The Neolithic and Early and Middle Minoan Ages (London, 1921)

i78 THE PALACE OF MINOS, ETC.

interment at Mochlos.1 In Fig. 12*7,'a from Knossos is shown the cover of
a similar vase cut out of the same stone. Examples given in this Figure,
clearly demonstrate that the decoration on some of the polychrome vessels
of this and the succeeding M. M. 11 Period is due to the attempt to
imitate the natural combinations on such stone vessels. The bizarre

POLYCHROME IMITATION OF
CONGLOMERATE M. M. II.

Fig. 127. Ceramic Imitations of Stone Vases (Breccia, Conglomerate, and Liparite) (| c).

red veining of Fig. 127,$, c, d, is taken from some such breccia models
as that shown for comparison. The white border which accompanies
the veins of the breccia constantly recurs on the pottery and will be
Liparite. found to have a long ceramic history. So, too, bowls of imported liparite
with a highly carinated contour, a fragment of one of which is shown
in Fig. 127, explain both the contour and white-spotted decoration on

1 Seager, Mochlos, p. 38, Tomb III a (Fig.
46 and PI. IX).

2 From Knossos. In the Candia Museum.

For the origin of this form of stone vessels
from Egyptian prototypes see above, p. 85 seqq.
and Fig. 55.