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THE PALACE OF MINOS, ETC.
Fine figures, the limbs of which, according to the regular convention, are outlined
Fresco on a white ground. One of these wears a robe, embroidered, just below the
Designs => , ...
of Female girdle, with two swallows flying in opposite directions, and holds up a skein-
Knossiarf like object which she fingers with the other hand.1 The other is seen in
Melos" a stooPm& position with both arms held down in front (Fig. 396).2 The
drawing here is of singular purity and beauty, suggesting a figure on a white
Fig. 398. Hand slightly under Life Size, from 'Ladies in Blue' Fresco.
Athenian lekythos some twelve centuries later in date. It is in perfect
harmony with a series of fragments, also delineating female figures, found,
much smoke-stained, in a deposit outside the North wall of the ' Royal
Magazines' at Knossos. From the locality in which they were unearthed it
is probable that these had formed part of the decorations of the great East
Hall of the Palace as it existed about the close of this Period.
Sparse and fragmentary as are these remains, a careful3 study has
1 Phylako_pi, p. 73, Fig. 61. new links of evidence. On the basis of these
2 Op. cit., p. 74, Fig. 62. Monsieur Gillieron has executed the brilliant
8 Supplementary researches made for me restored sketch seen in Fig. 397. The heads
by Mr. Droop in 1914 brought out some of the ladies are his own addition, and the
THE PALACE OF MINOS, ETC.
Fine figures, the limbs of which, according to the regular convention, are outlined
Fresco on a white ground. One of these wears a robe, embroidered, just below the
Designs => , ...
of Female girdle, with two swallows flying in opposite directions, and holds up a skein-
Knossiarf like object which she fingers with the other hand.1 The other is seen in
Melos" a stooPm& position with both arms held down in front (Fig. 396).2 The
drawing here is of singular purity and beauty, suggesting a figure on a white
Fig. 398. Hand slightly under Life Size, from 'Ladies in Blue' Fresco.
Athenian lekythos some twelve centuries later in date. It is in perfect
harmony with a series of fragments, also delineating female figures, found,
much smoke-stained, in a deposit outside the North wall of the ' Royal
Magazines' at Knossos. From the locality in which they were unearthed it
is probable that these had formed part of the decorations of the great East
Hall of the Palace as it existed about the close of this Period.
Sparse and fragmentary as are these remains, a careful3 study has
1 Phylako_pi, p. 73, Fig. 61. new links of evidence. On the basis of these
2 Op. cit., p. 74, Fig. 62. Monsieur Gillieron has executed the brilliant
8 Supplementary researches made for me restored sketch seen in Fig. 397. The heads
by Mr. Droop in 1914 brought out some of the ladies are his own addition, and the