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)

MARINE RELIEFS: TAKEN OVER IN REPOUSSE WORK 50:

In close dependence on the intaglios and reliefs of this kind executed Marine
in soft stone are those in which similar marine designs have been taken taken over
over into repousse metal-work. The actual transition to this, as already into re,~

1 J pousse

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Fig. 307. Development of Design on Steatite 'Rhyton' from Knossos: the

Ambushed Octopus.

shown, is seen in a 'flattened cylinder' of black steatite of M. M. Ill date
from Palaikastro, where a thin gold plating has been carefully impressed
into the engraving of dolphins swimming among rocks.1 Steatite vases
with reliefs were, as we knew, similarly plated, and in the next stage we see
the vessel itself executed entirely in gold plate, of which an example is
supplied by the ' rhyton' fragment from the same site with the charging
boar.2 Of this, so far as the 'marine style' is concerned, a good example

1 Ibid., i, p. 675, Fig. 495. Palaikastro Excavations (U.S.A., Suppl.

2 Ibid., i,p. 676, Fig. 496, and R. M. Dawkins, Paper I, 1923, p. 137, Fig. 118).