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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Egyptian source, being in
fact a derivative of the
sacred zvaz or papyrus
sceptre motive which in
other directions had such
a strong" influence on
Minoan Art, there too
with a religious intention.
The particular form in
which this decoration ap-
pears here has, moreover,
a very definite chronologi-
cal association. It recurs
in an identical shape on a
bronze cup of the Vapheio
type found by Mr. Seager
in a M. M. Ill interment at
Mochlos and illustrated in
another connexion as an
early example of this class
ofvessel.1 Thischronologi-
cal datum is corrobated
by the associations of the
lamp itself. The history of
the S. E. House where it
was found—apart from a
brief and partial occupa-
tion by later squatters—
lies, as we shall see, within
the limits of the M. M. Ill
Period.

Spirally fluted columns,
as is clear from gem-
types, survived well into
the Late Minoan Age.

pensable objects such as trimmers were
suspended (compare the chain attached to the
bronze lamp from Tomb 35 at Isopata, Tombs
of Knossos, p. 39, Fig. 35, a). Only a frag-
ment of the capital was preserved, but enough

Fig? 249. Columnar^ Lamp of Purple Gypsum,
from S.E. House. (From a 'drawinc. by Theodore
Fyfe.)

to ensure its complete restoration. As is
natural in the pedestal of a lamp the diameter
of the shaft is even throughout.

1 See Vol. II, and Mochlos, p. 62, Fig. 31,
XII. f. With it was also found a painted clay