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 PALACE OF MINOS, ETC.

Remains
of Parallel
Board
from IVth
Shaft
Grave.

of the Royal Draught-board. This completion of the rosettes, moreover,
receives a strong confirmation from a nearer source in direct dependence on
Knossos. At the neighbouring site of Tylissos in a more or less con-
temporary deposit was found the remains of a lid of an ivory box inlaid
with faience disks, probably from the Palace fabric, decorated with rosettes,
the petals of which present similar inner foliations, here outlined in a lighter
tone against the dark calix borders (Fig. 345).1

The remains of the similar board found in the Fourth Shaft Grave at
Mycenae, of which a restored drawing is given in Fig. 346,2 present, as will

Fig. 345. Lid of Ivory Box from Tylissos inlaid with Faience Rosettes.

be seen by a comparison with Fig. 344, a very close parallel to those from
the Temple Repository. The rosette patterns of the medallions, here
executed in faience, may well be regarded as copies, in that material, of
cloisoned crystal work such as that of the Knossian example. The central
plaque of incurved lozenge-shaped form that filled the space between the
medallions is of the same faience as the remains of similar plaques from
the Temple Repository,3 and its decoration of horizontal bars, alternately of

3 Fig. 344, b 4 shows part of a larger lozenge-
shaped plaque of similar material, belonging

1 J. Hatzidakis, Tv'Aio-cros MirwiK^ ('Apx- E</>.
1912), pp. 223, 224, and Fig. 32.

2 The drawing reproduced in Fig. 346 was to a disk about 15 cm. in diameter, also found
executed for me by M. E. GillieTon, fils, with in the W. Repository.

the kind permission of the Ephor, Dr. V. Stais.