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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to the egg-shell prototypes-1 On the other hand, the cable band below the
mouthpiece and the fellow to it restored round the lower circumference are
suggestive of the decorative metal rings that surround the ostrich egg-cups
of a well-known Mediaeval and Renaissance class.

The smaller scrolls of Fig. 436, c, as well as the cable bands, lead us to
a characteristic style of decoration presented by a group of polychrome
vessels brought out in 1913 during the excavation of a Minoan well on the

Fig. 437. Cup and Fragments of Bowls from Well, showing M. M. Ill
Survivals of Polychromy (from Minoan Well, Gypsades).

slope of Gypsades facing the Palace on the South. The great bulk of the

pottery here found represented the earliest Late Minoan phase (L. M. la). M. M. Ill

Immediately beneath this deposit, however, was a layer clearly belonging chrome

to the later stage of M. M. Ill, since it contained remains of vessels showing- ^esseis

... . »rom

white lilies on a lilac-brown ground, resembling those from the Palace Well,

Magazine described above. But the most remarkable feature of these Sades.

1 A somewhat variant parallel may be re- flying camels, from the ' Grotta d'Iside ' at
called in the engraved ostrich-shell cup, with Vulcii.

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