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)

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teristic feature of the mature early M. M. I a phase of this Period is a succes-
sion of palmette-like sprays alternately matt red and white on the black glaze,
well illustrated in Fig. 133.1 In c from a Cave burial at Hagia Photia 2 they
are reduced to a geometrical type. On the highly decorative 'fruit-stand'
from Palaikastro, e, a similar motive forms part of the petals of quatrefoil
flowers. To the succeeding M. M. I b phase must be ascribed the spouted

Fig. 134. M. M. I a Polychrome Cups {a and b |, c-e ^c).

vase (A) presenting alternate pairs of red and white crocus-flowers arranged Begin-
in 'chains' —a motive that survives into the succeeding Period.

The ' whorl-shell' motives that now appear, and of which examples from

1 Nos. a, b, d, f, are from Knossos. The
jug, g, is from the votive pit by the ossuary cells

at Gournes, N.E. of Knossos (Hatzidakis, 'Ap^.
AeAr., 1918, PI. Ill, 13. See below, p. 198, n. 5).
h is from Vasiliki (Seager, Trans. Dept. Arch.
Univ. Pa., vol. ii, 1907, PI. XXXII, and p. 125).

Naturalis-
tic Paint-
in sr.

For the Palaikastro fruit-stand see B. S. A., ix,
p. 308, Fig. 8. On the fragment b, berries,
alternately red (only partly visible) and white,
appear on stalks.

2 See Gournia, p. 60, PI. A. 1.