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)

FRAGMENTS FROM S. OF PROCESSIONAL CORRIDOR 751

sion Fresco' belongs having been confined even at that date to a limited
official circle.

That at a time contemporary with the execution of the ' Procession
Fresco' itself, the older form of loin-clothing was still depicted on the Palace

walls at Knossos,
is evidenced by
two interesting
painted stucco
fragments, here
for the first time
illustrated (Fig.
485). These were
found close to-
gether in a heap
of debris a little
South of the Sec-
tion of the Corri-
dor, containing
the remains of the
' Procession Fres-
co '. As restored
in Fig. 485, we
see here the head
of one life-sized
figure of a youth
close behind the
thigh of another
man, who stands
on an elevation
about 40 cm. (16
in.) higher, and is wearing a loin-cloth of the narrower kind, as richly em-
broidered as its space allows. The other piece presenting black foliate coils
on a blue ground, probably representing silver, may well form part of the
curved plate of the metal belt. The profile of the face shows a somewhat
blunter nose than the Cup-bearer, but the rather full lips bear a close resem-
blance. It is certainly a contemporary work, and the probability is that it
belonged to some adjacent space, though the abrupt difference in level of
the two figures—exceeding that of a single step—is difficult to account for.
Perhaps we have here a fragment of a large scene depicting a crowd of men.

Fig. 485.

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Proposed Restoration of Painted Stucco Fragments
found South of ' Corridor of Procession '.

Painted
stucco
fragments
from
South of
' Corridor
of Pro-
cession '.