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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the side of another ' hole-mouthed' vase from this site belong to a floral type
characteristic of a very mature stage of M. M. II, when they seem to super-
sede the earlier type with rounded ends. Similar sprays on a fragment
belonging to the close of the M.M.I I Period at Knossos are shown on
Fig. 19.8, d ; they are accompanied by the typical red disks. A good parallel
is also supplied by a complete flower on a jug, Fig. 198, a, dating from the
time of the last catastrophe of the earlier Palace at Phaestos. Fig. 198, b,

Fig. 198. Pottery showing Pointed Petals of Latest M. M. II Phase from Kahun (c)

and Cretan Sites (a, b, d).

reproduces a similar type with curving leaves from the Kamares Cave,1
diagrammatically completed in Fig. 194, j ; and the central disk in this case
with its segmental pattern, taken over as we have seen from inlaid work,
recurs on the vase from Abydos described below. Painted sherds decorated
with flowers showing the same pointed petals occur at Phylakopi 2 among
the last imported remains of this Period.3

The evidence from Kahun received a remarkable corroboration in
Professor Garstang's discovery of the remains of one of the familiar ' bridge-

1 J. L. Myres, op. at, PI. IV, 27.

2 Phylakopi, p. 149, Fig. 126.

They are thus placed by Dr. Mackenzie.