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)

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TRIGLYPH AND HALF-ROSETTE BAND

it occurs above two cross-beams with painted disks between them, which
seems to indicate that it was somewhat higher up. In the Men's Megaron
at Tiryns it seems to have performed the function of a kind of wainscoting
at the base of the walls. A further instance of a similar arrangement has

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Fig. 370. Plan and Skction of Part of Triglyph and Half-rosette Band.
Theodore Fyfe. (See also his Section in Suppl. Pl. XXII.)

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now, moreover, been supplied by the discovery of a fragment of a painted
band of this kind at the base of the walls forming the North-East corner of
the Megaron porch at Mycenae.1

Of the connexion of this architectural device with an original wooden
framework, the facade of the little Shrine of the 'Miniature Fresco', here
reproduced (Fig. 371), supplies the best illustration.2

the side of a broad post, of indeterminate School Excavations at Mycenae (B. S. A., xxv),
extension upwards. pp. 234, 235, and Fig. 46.

1 A. J. B. Wace in Report of the British 2 See too Coloured Plate, in Vol. iii.