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734 NETWORK PATTERNS ON FRESCOES
these, are what from their orange colour must be taken to be intended
for gold jewels. In Fig. 457, a, from the robe of a 'Lady in Blue', we see
a similar network ] with beads at its intersections, and with cross-threads
occupying the lower halves of the lozenge-shaped meshes, presenting thus
an exact parallel to the ornamental nets that hang down over the front of
the kilt in the case of male figures belonging to the ' Procession Fresco' (see
above, Fig. 453, a). Thus in the earlier fresco, representing the antecedent
structural phase of the Palace, we find one of the ornamental nets of Minoan
apparel literally copied.
The network designs of the ' Procession Fresco' bring us thus into
a close relation with types in existence in the ' pre-seismic ' stage of M. M.
III. More general parallels have already been established with the cruci-
form pattern shown in Fig. 459, a, from Hagia Triada.
Place of These decorative affinities, and such survivals of the old tradition as
' Pro- . .
cession may be traced in the conventionally rendered descending rock-work and the
earivTn wavy background, may certainly enable us to claim for the ' Procession
' New Fresco ' a relatively early place among the works of the New Era. This,
in itself, does not necessarily oblige us to carry it back to the actual date of
rebuilding of this part of the Palace after the great Earthquake. There are,
indeed, certain considerations that might be taken to weigh in favour of
a somewhat later date. These largely rest on the intimate relationship,
illustrated below, between the subjects of the present frescoes and those of
the wall-paintings in a series of tombs of high officials of Thothmes Ill's
time, depicting Minoan envoys and their offerings.
That the men of ' Keftiu ' seen in the wall-paintings of these Theban
tombs were of Cretan stock has already been sufficiently demonstrated.2
Physical appearance and costume alike proclaim their Minoan origin,
though it is by no means impossible that they had planted intermediate
factories in Cyprus and on the opposite Cilician coast. By those who
preserved the Egyptian records they are much mixed up with Syrians and
with Anatolians ot Hittite kin, but, apart from occasional confusions, the
vessels that they bear to Pharaoh's viziers are of Minoan types, and have,
as has been shown above, received many illustrations from the bronze and
other metal objects brought to our knowledge by the discoveries on the site
1 Fragments of a similar pattern also made For similar net patterns see, too, the faience
their appearance among the earlier fresco figure, P. of M., i. p. 502, and the ' Fitzwilliam'
remains in the style of the ' Ladies in Blue', statuette.
under the ' Corridor of the Procession '. Scale - See above, p. 654 seqq. and cf. p. 534.
pattern also occurred there very like Fig. 456, b.
these, are what from their orange colour must be taken to be intended
for gold jewels. In Fig. 457, a, from the robe of a 'Lady in Blue', we see
a similar network ] with beads at its intersections, and with cross-threads
occupying the lower halves of the lozenge-shaped meshes, presenting thus
an exact parallel to the ornamental nets that hang down over the front of
the kilt in the case of male figures belonging to the ' Procession Fresco' (see
above, Fig. 453, a). Thus in the earlier fresco, representing the antecedent
structural phase of the Palace, we find one of the ornamental nets of Minoan
apparel literally copied.
The network designs of the ' Procession Fresco' bring us thus into
a close relation with types in existence in the ' pre-seismic ' stage of M. M.
III. More general parallels have already been established with the cruci-
form pattern shown in Fig. 459, a, from Hagia Triada.
Place of These decorative affinities, and such survivals of the old tradition as
' Pro- . .
cession may be traced in the conventionally rendered descending rock-work and the
earivTn wavy background, may certainly enable us to claim for the ' Procession
' New Fresco ' a relatively early place among the works of the New Era. This,
in itself, does not necessarily oblige us to carry it back to the actual date of
rebuilding of this part of the Palace after the great Earthquake. There are,
indeed, certain considerations that might be taken to weigh in favour of
a somewhat later date. These largely rest on the intimate relationship,
illustrated below, between the subjects of the present frescoes and those of
the wall-paintings in a series of tombs of high officials of Thothmes Ill's
time, depicting Minoan envoys and their offerings.
That the men of ' Keftiu ' seen in the wall-paintings of these Theban
tombs were of Cretan stock has already been sufficiently demonstrated.2
Physical appearance and costume alike proclaim their Minoan origin,
though it is by no means impossible that they had planted intermediate
factories in Cyprus and on the opposite Cilician coast. By those who
preserved the Egyptian records they are much mixed up with Syrians and
with Anatolians ot Hittite kin, but, apart from occasional confusions, the
vessels that they bear to Pharaoh's viziers are of Minoan types, and have,
as has been shown above, received many illustrations from the bronze and
other metal objects brought to our knowledge by the discoveries on the site
1 Fragments of a similar pattern also made For similar net patterns see, too, the faience
their appearance among the earlier fresco figure, P. of M., i. p. 502, and the ' Fitzwilliam'
remains in the style of the ' Ladies in Blue', statuette.
under the ' Corridor of the Procession '. Scale - See above, p. 654 seqq. and cf. p. 534.
pattern also occurred there very like Fig. 456, b.