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)

83o

LION'S HEAD 'RHYTONS'

Type
derived
from
metal-
work.

surface within shows
that here too there
was a separate inlay
for the pupil of the
eye, in this case
also perhaps a crystal
lens overlaid with a
vermilion pigment
on its incave lower
surface which thus
magnified the fiery
glare.

The snoutof this
' rhyton' and sections
of the nostril and
details of the eye are
given in Fig. 543
from drawings by
Mr. Theodore Fyfe.
There can be no
doubt that, as in the
case of the fellow
vessel in the shape
of a lion's head (Figs.
544, 545), this too
closely depends on
an earlier type in
precious metal, such
as the gold example
in a ' heraldic ' style
found in the My-
cenae grave (Fig.
541, bis)} Remini-
scences of such a
prototype in metal-
work are traceable
in the prolongation

1 See Dr. Karo's remarks, op. cit., pp. 253,
254, and cf. J. de Mot, Rev. Arch., 1904, 2,

Fig. 544. Alabaster ' Rhyton ' in Form of Lion's Head :
from Central Treasury, restored. Facing View.

Fig. 545. Alabaster 'Rhyton'in Form of Lion's Head:
from Central Treasury, restored. Profile View,
showing Barbiche.

p. 214, and my own remarks, A >?/uzeolt>gia, lxv
('914). PP- 85, 86.