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)

6o6 THE PALACE OF MINOS, ETC.

certainly overlaps the close of this Period, human and animal figures take
up the most prominent place.

Why then should such representations have been excluded from the
contemporary repertory of the vase painters ? Tradition was to a certain
extent in favour of their insertion, since attempts to depict the human form,
executed it is true in a grotesque style, are already found in the earliest