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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fragments of great importance in their bearing on the architectural history Fxag-

r . 1 • 1 ments of

Of this epoch. architec-

These painted plaster remains had been evidently derived from upper tural fres;

coes found

chambers in this Palace region. Amongst the fresco fragments found in the beneath
lower receptacles of some cists of the Thirteenth Magazine,1 together with
parts of a small frieze with triglyphs and half rosettes closely approaching

BRBBHRBS

Fig. 319. Fresco showing Pillar Shrine with Double Axes stuck, into

Columns, (f c.)

the L. M. I class,2 were parts of architectural designs showing the facade of Facade of

a Columnar Sanctuary executed in a somewhat earlier style, and which may sanc-1"^

be safely placed at least within the lower limit of the present Period. ~aiT,of
XT • • Double

We see here parts of the facades of buildings with openings, 111 which, Axes,
in one case, are set three wooden columns and, beside them, the familiar
'horns of consecration' (Fig. 319).15 These columns, moreover, present an
interesting feature, supplying a further connexion with the prevailing cult.

1 Nos. 2, 3, and 4 from the West End of 'Temple Fresco'. See Vol. II.

the Magazine. 3 Below this architectural design is a rosette

2 The rosettes, however, were not of the border. For a coloured illustration see
purely architectonic type seen in the miniature B. S. A., x, PL ii.