BROADER PAINTINGS AND RELIEFS

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Fig. 201. Fresco from Hagia Triada in New Style cover-
ing the Whole Wall-surface. Leaping Roe amidst Rocks
•covered with Flowers and Creepers.

In the case of
painted stucco reliefs
it is clear from stra-
tigraphic evidence
that examples of such
already existed at
least by the begin-
ning of the last Mid-
dle Minoan Period.
Remains of bas-re-
lief compositions in
which bulls took part
were found, for in-
stance, in company
with the ' Spiral
Fresco' in a layer
belonging demon-
strably to the initial
phase (a) of M. M.
III.1 It is obvious
that such bull-grap-
pling scenes must
haveoccupied alarge
field, though a variety
of indications point
to the conclusion that
they were placed
above an architec-
tonic dado.2 In the
case of their succes-
sors belonging to the
concluding Palace
epoch, which are
painted on the fiat,
the base of similar
scenes of the Minoan

Great
painted
stucco
reliefs.

Bull-
grappling
reliefs
already
known in
Middle
Palace.

1 See -P. of M., i, p. 370 seqq. and p. 376, of the Sacrificed Oxen'.
Fig. 273. Fragments of a bull relief were also 2 For the ' triple gradation' of the base in

found in a M. M. Ill medium in the'House bull grappling scenes on seal-impressions of

A a 2