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LATEST PALACE DECORATION OF KNOSSOS IMITATED 93
foliage, was evidently carried out over a wide Palace area and recurs on
fresco fragments marking the last L. M. II works of restoration in the
Domestic Quarter, from which Fig. GS is taken. It is certainly, therefore,
a significant fact that, in days when, according to the general belief, the
centre of Minoan power had been transferred to the Mainland side, the
prevalent style of the old Palace should still have set the fashion at
Mycenae as it had done two centuries before.
Finally, we have to recall the extraordinary phenomenon, which I hope
to deal with elsewhere, of the survival in the great Mainland centres—at
Mycenae, Tiryns, and Thebes—during the period that immediately suc-
ceeded the fall of the Knossian Palace, of its particular system of advanced
linear writing and even, it may be said, its ' Court-hand '.
The archaeological evidence above recapitulated supplies, in fact,
abundant evidence of a definite and prolonged historical relationship between
Mycenae and Knossos, which fits in well with the geographical position
occupied by the sea outlets of both cities on the opposite sides of the
Western Aegean basin.
foliage, was evidently carried out over a wide Palace area and recurs on
fresco fragments marking the last L. M. II works of restoration in the
Domestic Quarter, from which Fig. GS is taken. It is certainly, therefore,
a significant fact that, in days when, according to the general belief, the
centre of Minoan power had been transferred to the Mainland side, the
prevalent style of the old Palace should still have set the fashion at
Mycenae as it had done two centuries before.
Finally, we have to recall the extraordinary phenomenon, which I hope
to deal with elsewhere, of the survival in the great Mainland centres—at
Mycenae, Tiryns, and Thebes—during the period that immediately suc-
ceeded the fall of the Knossian Palace, of its particular system of advanced
linear writing and even, it may be said, its ' Court-hand '.
The archaeological evidence above recapitulated supplies, in fact,
abundant evidence of a definite and prolonged historical relationship between
Mycenae and Knossos, which fits in well with the geographical position
occupied by the sea outlets of both cities on the opposite sides of the
Western Aegean basin.