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)

M. M. Ill: SURVIVALS OF CERAMIC POLYCHROMY 611

ornament the upper margin of a stone bowl from the ' Sacellum ' of the Early
Palace at Phaestos.1 A triple version is seen on a jug of the white on
black style from Gournia, Fig. 449, a, probably belonging to the earlier phase
of M. M III, while Fig. 449,a jug from Zakro, shows a more elaborate
rendering of this type. It will be seen at once that the fine ' embroidered '
white decoration of the triple sprays on this vase harmonizes in a remark-
able manner with that depicted on the ' axe-blades' of the jar illustrated
in Fig. 448. Both vessels—which already present on their bodies the buff
ground of the succeeding fashion—are of absolutely contemporary date and

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Fig. ii9,a,b. M.M. Ill Vases, showing Triple Tangential Motive.

must be included among the latest elements that can be placed on the

M. M. Ill side of the border.

Their tangential lobes themselves supply an interesting link of transition Link wi

to some of the finest works that illustrate the early phase of the First l.m. i

Late Minoan style. On these the same dark bladder-like excrescences *?ecora~

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recur, springing either in pairs or triplets from the central disk, in some

cases, as on a fine amphora from Pseira,2 picked out with a very similar

embroidered work, at times, as on a beautiful clay rhyton from Zakro,3

enclosing white lily sprays. But a novelty in technique in the former

design, the use of the ' new red ', shows that the frontiers of L. M. I have

already been crossed.

1 See Mon. Ant., xiv, p. 479, Fig. 87, p. 445, Fig. 60, 3.

2 See Excavations at Pseira, Crete, p. 33, Fig. 14.

3 See / H. S., xxii, PI. XII, 3.

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