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Evans, Arthur
The shaft graves and bee-hive tombs of Mycenae and their interrelation — London, 1929

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72 ROSETTE BANDS AT KNOSSOS AND MYCENAE

brought out in the area of the South Propylaeum, which, from the depth at
which they occurred, must be associated with this structure in its earlier and
broader form as executed in the earlier phase, a, of M. M. III.1 A view
of one of these fragments is mven in Figf. 48 and the section of the rosette
in Fig. 49, by Mr. Theodore Fyfe, will give some idea of the delicacy of the

Fig. 48. Fragment of Rosette Band from M. M. Ilia Portal of S. Propylaeum,

Knossos.

work. A very precise chronological limit, moreover, has since been supplied
by the fragments of a series of similar decorative reliefs belonging to bands
of rosettes, half-rosettes, and spirals found in the area of what was un-
doubtedly in the last Middle Minoan Period an important entrance Porch
at the part where the Stepped Corridor abutted on the South-West Palace
angle.- This South-West Porch was destroyed, and went entirely out of use
together with the adjoining part of the old South Corridor, at the time of

1 See P. of J/., ii, Pt. II, pp. 694-7, and " I/k, Pt. I, p. 161 seqq. and Figs. 83, 84.
Figs. 436, 437.
 
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