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)

'OGIVAL CANOPY' OUTGROWTH OF 'SACRAL IVY' 491

In the light of the comparative examples given in Fig. 297 there can, An out-
indeed, be no doubt that the ' ogival canopy', the origin of which has not ?sacral°
hitherto been recognized,1 is in fact an outgrowth and dependency of the '•?'*
' Sacral Ivy' class. Thus,
in a of the Comparative
Figure, on a sherd from
Knossos, we see a con-
tinuous pattern in which
the decorative motive
given in the inset, p. 489,
is combined with the re-
curved upper outline of the
papyrus tuft. In b, from
Aegina,2 a detached ex-
ample of this class is shown
with two divergent 'stalks',
the lower part of the papy-
rus tuft being here marked
by a swastika. Figs.
296 b, 297, c, from Thebes,
supply a typical example
of broad ivy-leaves alterna-
ting above and below, and
joined by the ' ogival'
curves. This type, which

belongs to the later statre,

& . . Fig. 296 b. Amphora from Ihebes (= L. M. I 0) showing

b, of L. M. I, is in fact ' Ogival Canopy' Motive and Ivy-leaves.

directly dependent on a

similar decorative arrangement of the ' sacral ivy-leaves' and stalks that had
already made its appearance in the very earliest phase of L. M. I. Good
illustrations of this have already been supplied, in the painted ewer from the
Sixth Shaft Grave at Mycenae (Fig. 293) and by the Gournia pot (Fig. 292),
both of L. M. I a date.3 Fig. 297, g, taken from a Kakovatos amphora,

1 Bosanquet, loc. cit., explained it as ' a
conventional representation of seaweed grow-
ing from rocks'. It is, as will be seen, wholly
distinct from the ' Marine style ' which, how-
ever, on the Kakovatos type (Figs. 296 a, c,

297,/) is seen to have reacted on it.

2 Jahrbuch d. Deutschen Arch. Inst., 1925,

P- 323' F'g- 6-

3 See above, p. 486.