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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RESTORATION OF 'PALANQUIN FRESCO

Restoted
group.

This collocation of fragments has suggested a restoration of a complete
scene, given in Fig. 503, showing two pairs of ceremonial bearers within the
shafts of a kind of palanquin containing a seated figure.1 Some latitude



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Fig. 503. Priestly Figures bearing Palanquin restored from Fragments of

Knossian Fresco.

must be allowed for details in the case of such a restoration, and one or
other fragment may in reality belong to some other design of the same
kind contained on the same fresco panel.2 A further fragment, Fig. 502, e,
may belong to another palanquin of a similar class.

A terra-cotta model of a palanquin associated with the remains of the
miniature pillar shrine has already received illustration.3 The narrow, raised

1 Sketched, in accordance with my sugges- fragments.

tions, by Monsieur E. Gillieron, pere. 3 P. of 31'., i, p. 220, Fig. 166, g, and above,

2 This would account for the slight variation p. 158, Fig. 80.
in the width of the palanquin bars on some