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 2,1): Fresh lights on origins and external relations (London, 1928)

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IMPULSE FROM THE SOUTH: EARLY NILOTIC

temporary Lions' Gate exhibits in a still more primitive form the ' humped'
lintel block beneath the slab presenting the well-known relief, the lower

Fig. 18. Entrance to Smaller Tholos A, Kumasa.

border of which has been cut out to receive it, somewhat at the expense of
the artistic effect (Fig. 19, a). The lintel here is also cut into for the
support of two side blocks, but otherwise, except for its much greater scale,1
So far as its architectural mouldings go the lintel gefasse, PL XII) and of a purple gypsum lamp

with foliate decoration of early L. M. I date,
clearly a Knossian importation. Dr. Blegen
has now found L. M. I a tombs near it.

1 The length of the lintel block of the Lions'
Gate is 4-60 m. (15 ft.), the width 2-50 m., and
the thickness over a metre. The length of
the two Kumasa lintels is 2-20 and 2-30 m.

block of the Atreus entrance presents a great
analogy with that of the tholos tomb near the
Argive Heraeon, the material in both cases
being native conglomerate (see P. Stamatakis,
Ath. Mitth., iii, 1878, PI. XI, 2, and cf. p. 275).
The Heraeon Tomb contained remains of
L. M. I b Vases (cf. Furtwangler, Myk. Thon-