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92 CONSTANT REACTION OF KNOSSOS ON MYCENAE
glomerate column bases in the good Minoan style and the fragments of a tri-
glyph border, point unquestionably in that direction. The traditional 'notched
plume' and painted de-
coration of the hearth
within the Megaron—re-
newed, as Miss Winifred
Lamb's careful researches
have shown, no less than
ten times—goes back to
the best fresco models of
the M. M. Ill Palace at
Knossos. The arrange-
ment of four columns seen
around it repeats a recur-
ring feature in the Minoan
domestic architecture of
Crete. For the restored
drawing of the Court in
front of the Megaron, in-
deed, Mr. de Jong was in-
evitably led to take for his
model the structural ar-
rangementof the Domestic
Quarter of Knossos, which
in its essential lines also
goes back to the early
phase of the Third Middle
Minoan Period.
Among the fragments
Fig. 68.
Sprays in Style of Last Wall Decoration
of Palace, Knossos.
of fresco found in the
'Ramp House' at My-
cenae that lies immediately to the South-East of the Grave Circle, and derived,
according to the excavators' suggestion, ' from the Palace on the summit of
the Acropolis', were certain pieces depicting conventional foliage of the
same kind that is associated at Knossos with the Griffins in the Room of
the Throne. The resemblance, indeed, as will be seen from Fig. 68, ex-
tends to detail, and though the Mycenae sprays are in a slightly inferior
style they represent the work of a contemporary copyist.
At Knossos this system of decoration, which lays stress on conventional
glomerate column bases in the good Minoan style and the fragments of a tri-
glyph border, point unquestionably in that direction. The traditional 'notched
plume' and painted de-
coration of the hearth
within the Megaron—re-
newed, as Miss Winifred
Lamb's careful researches
have shown, no less than
ten times—goes back to
the best fresco models of
the M. M. Ill Palace at
Knossos. The arrange-
ment of four columns seen
around it repeats a recur-
ring feature in the Minoan
domestic architecture of
Crete. For the restored
drawing of the Court in
front of the Megaron, in-
deed, Mr. de Jong was in-
evitably led to take for his
model the structural ar-
rangementof the Domestic
Quarter of Knossos, which
in its essential lines also
goes back to the early
phase of the Third Middle
Minoan Period.
Among the fragments
Fig. 68.
Sprays in Style of Last Wall Decoration
of Palace, Knossos.
of fresco found in the
'Ramp House' at My-
cenae that lies immediately to the South-East of the Grave Circle, and derived,
according to the excavators' suggestion, ' from the Palace on the summit of
the Acropolis', were certain pieces depicting conventional foliage of the
same kind that is associated at Knossos with the Griffins in the Room of
the Throne. The resemblance, indeed, as will be seen from Fig. 68, ex-
tends to detail, and though the Mycenae sprays are in a slightly inferior
style they represent the work of a contemporary copyist.
At Knossos this system of decoration, which lays stress on conventional