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)

DERIVATIVE PALM-GROUPS: EGYPTIAN EQUATIONS 497

types d and e.1 Fig. 302 shows a L. M. I b 'rhyton' from Pseira2 presenting

decorative palm-groups in the same style as those
of the Kakovatos amphoras (cf. Fig. 301, e).
f3 is of special interest since, while it fits on to the
latter and is unquestionably of the same date, it
is taken from a clay aryballos found In Egypt, and
was itself not improbably an article of Cretan export.
A fragment of a similar vessel from Zakro 4 (Fig.
303) shows a curtailed example of this, approaching
some Mainland forms.

This Cretan equation with an imported Minoan

Egypt

receives an

interesting

Fig. 302. L.M.Ib 'Rhy-
ton' from Pseira, Crete,
with Groups of Decora-
tive Palms.

vessel found in

confirmation from

the contents of a

tomb of Thothmes

Ill's time at Sak-

kara, illustrated

below in Fig. 304.5

The aryballos

(Fig. 3o£ /)

shows the palm- Fig. 303. On Fragment of Ary-

tree motive - BALLOS> Zakro' Cretf- Slightly

A

in

completed.

exactly the same

stage of development as Fig. 301, r, from the

parallel Egyptian deposit and associated as there

and at Zakro with a rosette ornament. The decorative lilies, on the other

hand, on the shallow cup found with the larger vessel correspond with

those on a very fine L. M. I b amphora from a tomb at Mycenae.6 We

1 For d see Keramopoullos,'E^>.'Apx , 191O1 account.
PI. VIII (Thebes); E is from a Kakovatos
amphora; Kurt Miiller, Ath. Mitth., xxxiv,
1909, PI. XXII, 2.

2 Seager, Pseira, p. 25, Fig. 8.

3 Von Bissing, Ath. Mitth., xxiii (1898),
PI. XIII, 3, and p. 258.

4 See E. J. Forsdyke, P.M. Cat., Prehistoric
Aegean Pottery, p. 114, Fig. 148, a. 707.
The degenerate palm-trees are described {Joe.
(it.) as ' flowers which resemble crocus plants
in bud'. Cross influences, indeed, from other
vegetable forms must never be left out of

II. L 1

5 For this information and the photographs
I am much indebted to Mr. C. M. Firth, now
published in his and Mr. Battiscombe Crunn's
Excavations, Teti Pyramid Cemeteries, 1926,
PI. XLII and pp. 69, 70. According to Dr.
H. R. Hall the Egyptian vessels are of the
earlier Eighteenth Dynasty Class.

6 R. C. Bosanquet, J.H.S., xxiv (1904),
PI. XIII and p. 322 seqq. The connexion of
the marine types with the Cretan fishers' craft
is there admirably shown (pp. 320, 321).