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 2,2): Town houses in Knossos of the new era and restored West Palace Section (London, 1928)

'HOUSE OF FRESCOES': ROOM OF THE VASES 437

disks on a dark ground and a lighter pattern, the surface of which is decorated
with punctuations, recalling the white strokes on the similar sub-triangular
intervals in the decoration of the M. M. Ilia cup from the neighbouring
town drain, illustrated in Fig. 204, above. Almost complete remains were
also found of the little 'hole-spouted' vessel (Fig. 25:?, d) in a typical white

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Bla^k.

Fig. 254. Jug witi

t Motive repeated, L. M. I a (' House of the Frescoes ').

on dark style. It , the motive of four axe-like spokes, radiating

from a central fi, fp» .ally identical with that on a jar1 from the
Magazine bordering'tlw of the 'Lily Vases' of M. M. II16 date. The
earliest ceramic «ement on the floors of this house is thus seen to go back
within the borde* of that Period. At a higher level, above the ' Room of
the Vases', were§-emains of later structures, containing 'champagne cups'
of the usual L. M. Ill b style. On the other hand, above the central part of
the house, superposed on a disturbed stratum containing L. M. I a sherds,
were fragments presenting marine designs of the concluding L. M. I phase (6)
and pointing to some rebuilding about the middle of that Period.

1 P. o/M., i, p. 583, Fig. 427a, and cf. p. 581, Fig. 425.