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.

supports beneath the groups, of the same triple formation (see Fig. 506).
The fullest evidence is supplied, however, by the reliefs on the steatite rhytons,
of obviously architectonic origin, exhibiting both bull-grappling and pugilistic

Fig. 506. Support with Three Gradations
from Griffin Relief, Knossos.

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Fig. 508. Section of Steatite Rhyton from
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Illustra- scenes. A fragment of such a rhyton, of grey steatite, from Knossos, partly
steatite0™ completed in outline is given in Fig. 507. Here, beneath the prostrate
rhytons. bull, is an oblong block of a peculiar class, which serves the purpose of
a capital. But beyond this, doubtless, in either direction extended the triply