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460 ' HOUSE OF FRESCOES': MINOAN FOUNTAIN
Position and Width of Fresco Friezes.
The position of fresco friezes in the Minoan houses was naturally
dependent on that of the beams that formed the continuation, on the one
hand, of the lintel of the doorway and the upper line of the window frame,
and on the other of the sill or lower line of the window casing. In the case
of the Stepped Pavilion of the ' Caravanserai', where there were no
windows but a system of painted pillars of the same height as the door-posts,
the Partridge Frieze was set in the interval between the ceiling and beams
that formed the imposts of the doors and surrounding pillars—at a height, that
is, of about 2-5 metres—and was therefore somewhat 'skied'. But the
marks of wooden beams, seen in several cases immediately above the upper
borders of the present group of frescoes, as well as the evidence of a greater
width, show that these were placed under the lintel line. If the measure-
ments prevalent in the rooms here were approximately the same as that of
the ' Caravanserai' pavilion, the upper border of the painted friezes would
have been about i-8o metres up, and we may suppose that a dado strip filled
the interval of about a metre below. These fresco designs would therefore
have been well 'on the line'. It seems probable that, as at Hagia Triada,
the dado band below consisted of painted plaster at this epoch, often coloured
black, rather than of gypsum slabs.
Character Of the frames themselves, which suggest copies in the flat of plaster
cornices, there were a large number of fragments, though their exact breadth
was generally indeterminate. They consisted of coloured bands and lines,
black, blue, red, yellow, and white, often very numerous. In b of the
Suppl. PI. XX, where some typical examples are given, as many as nineteen
lines and bands are traceable.
A Minoan Fountain.
Fresco Perhaps the most remarked of all the fragments from the fresco heap
jet d'eau. are those reproduced in what seems to be their original relation in Fig. 272.
Although the actual summit was not found, the object here depicted in the
upper part of the field is clearly some kind of fountain or jet d'eau. The
fragment below, with the same forked base and falling drops, seems, more-
over, to be the base of another column of water drawn in a similar con-
ventional manner, with a small section of undulating ground contour showing
a wavy band, in this case, appearing beneath it.
The background here is white, the central column of water and the
falling drops on either side a deep blue, while the drops descending in front
of the main jet are rendered visible by being painted in white. The spout of
of frames.
Position and Width of Fresco Friezes.
The position of fresco friezes in the Minoan houses was naturally
dependent on that of the beams that formed the continuation, on the one
hand, of the lintel of the doorway and the upper line of the window frame,
and on the other of the sill or lower line of the window casing. In the case
of the Stepped Pavilion of the ' Caravanserai', where there were no
windows but a system of painted pillars of the same height as the door-posts,
the Partridge Frieze was set in the interval between the ceiling and beams
that formed the imposts of the doors and surrounding pillars—at a height, that
is, of about 2-5 metres—and was therefore somewhat 'skied'. But the
marks of wooden beams, seen in several cases immediately above the upper
borders of the present group of frescoes, as well as the evidence of a greater
width, show that these were placed under the lintel line. If the measure-
ments prevalent in the rooms here were approximately the same as that of
the ' Caravanserai' pavilion, the upper border of the painted friezes would
have been about i-8o metres up, and we may suppose that a dado strip filled
the interval of about a metre below. These fresco designs would therefore
have been well 'on the line'. It seems probable that, as at Hagia Triada,
the dado band below consisted of painted plaster at this epoch, often coloured
black, rather than of gypsum slabs.
Character Of the frames themselves, which suggest copies in the flat of plaster
cornices, there were a large number of fragments, though their exact breadth
was generally indeterminate. They consisted of coloured bands and lines,
black, blue, red, yellow, and white, often very numerous. In b of the
Suppl. PI. XX, where some typical examples are given, as many as nineteen
lines and bands are traceable.
A Minoan Fountain.
Fresco Perhaps the most remarked of all the fragments from the fresco heap
jet d'eau. are those reproduced in what seems to be their original relation in Fig. 272.
Although the actual summit was not found, the object here depicted in the
upper part of the field is clearly some kind of fountain or jet d'eau. The
fragment below, with the same forked base and falling drops, seems, more-
over, to be the base of another column of water drawn in a similar con-
ventional manner, with a small section of undulating ground contour showing
a wavy band, in this case, appearing beneath it.
The background here is white, the central column of water and the
falling drops on either side a deep blue, while the drops descending in front
of the main jet are rendered visible by being painted in white. The spout of
of frames.