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)

TERRA-COTTA RELIEF OF PROCESSIONAL FIGURE 75;

coping stones of the isodomic walled intervals, attest the sanctuary character
of the building.1

That small friezes presenting reliefs of processional figures with offer- M. M. in
ings similarly attired had already existed at Knossos in the last Middle J^£"

Fig. 487. Terra-cotta Relief from 'House of the Sacrificed Oxen': M.M. Ill b,

with Sections b-b and c-c.

Minoan Period may be inferred from a fine terra-cotta relief found in
a M. M. Ill b stratum of the 'House of the Sacrificed Oxen',2 and here
illustrated. This relief, displaying the greater part of a sinewy male figure
with the left leg thrown forward in the act of advancing (see Fig. 487, a), was

1 A similar structure showing the horns the ' Besieged City' on the silver ' rhyton '
within the openings and apparently stepping up from Mycenae,
may be made out on a fragment belonging to 2 See above, pp. 310, 311.

relief
from ' H.
of Sacri-
ficed
Oxen'.

II.

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