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THE PALACE OF MINOS, ETC.
bright red band round the middle of the pot, an interesting anticipation of
a form of decoration frequent in Late Minoan times. This vessel derives
a special chronological importance from the close parallelism that it presents
with a jug, exhibiting similar barbotine and painted decoration, including
the festoons, found at Phaestos1 on the floor of a small house, in company
with polychrome cups of the most typical M.M. I 3 class, and parallel with those
from the floor deposit beneath the West Court illustrated below.2 Some-
times the surface is raised into sharp ridges or thorn-like bosses, and on cups
of this Period from Knossos an exaggerated effect is occasionally pro-
duced resembling rock-work (Fig. .1.29, a)? This 'barbotine' decoration
as combined with advanced polychromy seems to have attained its greatest
development about the close of this Period and beginning of M.M. II, and
typical examples are given below in Coloured Plate I.4 Somewhat later, an
exquisite development of it is seen in bowls like Suppi. PI. Ill, a with red
bosses resembling the thorns of a rose-bush.
Bowls An interesting class of bowls now appears, chiefly represented by finds
Miniature from Palaikastro, but of which fragmentary examples have been found
figures t Knossos and elsewhere, showing1 various small figures and miniature
and Ves- ' » &
sels: vessels modelled in their interior. In Fig. 130, a and c we see single figures,
in the first case of a flying dove on a slender pedestal,5 in the second
of an ox.° In b ' the whole of the interior is covered with miniature
Oxen, &c. oxen, rank behind rank, to the number of nearly 200, with the figure of
a herdsman, upright in the centre '.7 Numerous Egyptian parallels are to
be found for these bowls with animal figures. Sometimes the whole inner
surface is covered with small vases such as cups and funnel-shaped vessels
resembling miniature examples found in the Sanctuary of Petsofa (see
Fig. Ill, y, above). There can be no doubt that bowls of this class were
made for votive purposes. The usage itself continued into M. M. II.8
Naturalism is carried still further in some painted designs on the flat.
A widely distributed class of spouted jugs presents a succession of swimming
1 Pernier, Mon. Ant., xii, PI. VIII, 6 and Hogarth and Welch,/H. S., xxi, PI. VII, a, b.
p. 20. On the same house floor was found 3 J. H. S., xxiii, p. 167, Fig. 1, 5.
a fragment of painted stucco showing white 4 Opposite p. 231.
dots on a black ground, like contemporary 5 From the Bone-enclosure, Palaikastro;
ceramic imitations of liparite. This seems to Bosanquet, B. S. A., viii, p. 294.
be the earliest definitely dated example of wall- 6 Dawkins, B. S.A., ix, p. 302, 5 a.
painting other than monochrome. 7 Bosanquet, loc. cit.
2 See p. 187, Figs. 135, 136. Coloured 8 A fragment of a small M. M. II bowl from
illustrations of polychrome cups of the class Knossos shows in the interior miniature vases
represented in the floor deposit are given by of this funnel-shaped type.
THE PALACE OF MINOS, ETC.
bright red band round the middle of the pot, an interesting anticipation of
a form of decoration frequent in Late Minoan times. This vessel derives
a special chronological importance from the close parallelism that it presents
with a jug, exhibiting similar barbotine and painted decoration, including
the festoons, found at Phaestos1 on the floor of a small house, in company
with polychrome cups of the most typical M.M. I 3 class, and parallel with those
from the floor deposit beneath the West Court illustrated below.2 Some-
times the surface is raised into sharp ridges or thorn-like bosses, and on cups
of this Period from Knossos an exaggerated effect is occasionally pro-
duced resembling rock-work (Fig. .1.29, a)? This 'barbotine' decoration
as combined with advanced polychromy seems to have attained its greatest
development about the close of this Period and beginning of M.M. II, and
typical examples are given below in Coloured Plate I.4 Somewhat later, an
exquisite development of it is seen in bowls like Suppi. PI. Ill, a with red
bosses resembling the thorns of a rose-bush.
Bowls An interesting class of bowls now appears, chiefly represented by finds
Miniature from Palaikastro, but of which fragmentary examples have been found
figures t Knossos and elsewhere, showing1 various small figures and miniature
and Ves- ' » &
sels: vessels modelled in their interior. In Fig. 130, a and c we see single figures,
in the first case of a flying dove on a slender pedestal,5 in the second
of an ox.° In b ' the whole of the interior is covered with miniature
Oxen, &c. oxen, rank behind rank, to the number of nearly 200, with the figure of
a herdsman, upright in the centre '.7 Numerous Egyptian parallels are to
be found for these bowls with animal figures. Sometimes the whole inner
surface is covered with small vases such as cups and funnel-shaped vessels
resembling miniature examples found in the Sanctuary of Petsofa (see
Fig. Ill, y, above). There can be no doubt that bowls of this class were
made for votive purposes. The usage itself continued into M. M. II.8
Naturalism is carried still further in some painted designs on the flat.
A widely distributed class of spouted jugs presents a succession of swimming
1 Pernier, Mon. Ant., xii, PI. VIII, 6 and Hogarth and Welch,/H. S., xxi, PI. VII, a, b.
p. 20. On the same house floor was found 3 J. H. S., xxiii, p. 167, Fig. 1, 5.
a fragment of painted stucco showing white 4 Opposite p. 231.
dots on a black ground, like contemporary 5 From the Bone-enclosure, Palaikastro;
ceramic imitations of liparite. This seems to Bosanquet, B. S. A., viii, p. 294.
be the earliest definitely dated example of wall- 6 Dawkins, B. S.A., ix, p. 302, 5 a.
painting other than monochrome. 7 Bosanquet, loc. cit.
2 See p. 187, Figs. 135, 136. Coloured 8 A fragment of a small M. M. II bowl from
illustrations of polychrome cups of the class Knossos shows in the interior miniature vases
represented in the floor deposit are given by of this funnel-shaped type.