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)

506 MARINE RELIEFS ON GOLD BOWL FROM MIDEA

and to a time when decorative influences have begun slightly to interfere
with the purer naturalistic element. The tentacles of the octopods have
lost the picturesque variation of their interlaced coils, and give a slight

Fig. 310. a, Fragment of Large Amphora, with Seaweed and Coralline;
b, Part of Base of a 'Flower-pot' Vase with Triton Shell, etc. ; c, Back
of Same, developed. Knossos.

suggestion of methodical combing out. Vegetable shoots, moreover, of
a terrestrial character have intruded themselves in places on the rock-work
in place of the corallines and seaweeds, and betray the reaction of con-
temporary works to which the Vapheio cups belong, and where, in fact, they
represent infant palm-trees. It is, indeed, a significant fact that two silver