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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association which itself carries it back well within the limits of M. M. III.
The gold cup 7, found in Grave V, and 8, from the Second Grave, reflect archi-
tectonic influences such as are already visible in the Knossian types 1 and 4.
The pillars here even show separate blocks and the angular arches of 8
might recall the Carlovingian arcading of Lorsch or its Saxon equivalent
at Deerhurst.1 The fragment of the silver cup 6 with its double-headed

arches answers to a decorative type copied in
Knossian stone vessels of the beeinnine of the

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Late Minoan Age,2 but already seen in the
half rosettes of painted friezes going back to
M.M. III.

It further appears that vessels with
handles of the characteristic type of those of
the Vapheio gold cups were already finely
imitated in clay at Knossos by the close of this
Period or the early part of M. M. III. A frag-
mentary specimen of a handle and part of a rim
of a goblet with a lustrous brown glaze" is given
in Fig. 183 b, 1, and with it, for comparison,
the silver beaker Irom Mycenae with gold and
niello inlays, which may have approximated to it
in form. Specimens in metal of the Vapheio
type of cup, as we shall see, were known in M. M. Ill Crete.

In Fig. 184 a, b, we see illustrated on Cups—themselves of Vapheio
shape—the dark on light as well as the light on dark tradition.4 At
the same time it is clear that the curved or kidney-shaped pattern, white
and brown respectively on a and the white blotches on b, were repeated in
each case by means of the same stamp. Sometimes, as in Fig. 185, showing
part of the base of a cup,5 the type repeated is very regular, in this case
resembling a capital C, but here, too, the mechanical character of the

1 Architectural parallels of Minoan date are analogy with those on a class of M. M. Ilia
however wanting, if we except the rough analogy
of the Tirynthian Galleries (L. M. III).

- Metal bowls and ewers with a simple kind
of fluting are also seen in the hands of the
Keftian Chieftains on the Early XVIIIth
Dynasty Monuments. For a fluted bronze
jug from Dendereh which perhaps stands in
this relation, see Petrie, Dendereh.

3 The ridges round the collar present some

Architec-
tonic in-
fluences.

Early
ceramic
imitation
of Vessels
with
Handles
of Va-
pheio
type at
Knossos.

Fig. 185. Part of Base of Cup
with Printed Pattern.

Printed
Patterns.

analogy

limestone bowls (see below, p. 413, Figs. 297,
298).

4 See Mackenzie, The Pottery of Knossos
{J. H. S., xxiii), pp. 176, 177. The interior of
l> is flaked dark on light.

5 This fragment (from the ' Kouloura') seems
to be of somewhat later date than Fig. 184, a.
The string-marks on its base clearly indicate
the quick wheel (see p. 259).