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FRESCOES FROM TYLISSOS AND RAMP HOUSE
Unique
bronze,
vesse!.
Frescoes
from
' Ramp
House'.
Mycenae.
Frag-
ments
from
J Thresh-
ing Floor
Heap'.
Fig. 18. Painted Stucco Fragment
from tylissos showing part of
female figures and another on which is preserved the upper border of a crowd
of male spectators (Fig. 18), some of whom raise their arms in the same
way as those on a Knossian fresco where they are looking on a spectacle
below. An architectural fragment found
here (see p. 84, Fig. 47, below) may connect
itself with the class of ' Siege' scenes de-
scribed below. Another curious fragment
(Fig. 19)' exhibits a large spouted vase,
apparently of bronze, with a handle of unique
form, surmounted by a white object resem-
bling a tied package, while at the side hangs
a skin vessel—such as are used for native Upper Row of Spectators, as on
cheese-here with a mammiform end. ' Grand Stand ' AT Knossos-
Is it possible that we had here provisions for those engaged in the
athletic contest—beer or wine, cheese, and perhaps a barley cake ?
Among frescoes that may be included in the ' Miniature' Class are those
of the Votive tablet from Mycenae2 and of the 'Ramp House'3. The
latter, some of which have to do with the bull-ring, also include parts of the
same group as that above described of women looking out through a window
opening, the posts of which, in close conformity
with the columnar shrine from the Thirteenth
Magazine, show the blades of inserted double axes.
The borders of these panels—where a white band
is succeeded by a yellow band with red bars and
a blue band with black—exactly correspond with
that of the ' Temple Fresco', Here the figures
answer to the Miniature scale: those of the
' Frieze of Warriors ',4 on the other hand from
the Mycenae Megaron—a composition which may
itself be safely placed well within the limits of fIG- 19 Miniature Frag-
L. M. I *—are about twice the scale of those seen MENT WITH Vase and Uncer-
M. • t 1 tain Object : Tylissos.
iniature panels.
The.' Temple Fresco' and the ' Sacred Grove and Dance ' clearly stand
in a religious relation. This conclusion is confirmed, moreover, by a re-
1 Hitherto unpublished. Drawn for me by
Monsieur E. Gillieron, fils. The vessel is
coloured red.
: See below, p. 135, Fig. 88.
3 Miss W. Lamb, B.S.A., xxiv, pp. 191-4,
and PI. VII.
1 Found by Tsountas iri 1886; Roden-
waldt, Ath. Mitth., 1922 and Der Fries des
Megarons, &°c.; B. S. A., xxv (Miss W. Lamb),
p. 164 seqq. : restored, PI. XXVII.
Unique
bronze,
vesse!.
Frescoes
from
' Ramp
House'.
Mycenae.
Frag-
ments
from
J Thresh-
ing Floor
Heap'.
Fig. 18. Painted Stucco Fragment
from tylissos showing part of
female figures and another on which is preserved the upper border of a crowd
of male spectators (Fig. 18), some of whom raise their arms in the same
way as those on a Knossian fresco where they are looking on a spectacle
below. An architectural fragment found
here (see p. 84, Fig. 47, below) may connect
itself with the class of ' Siege' scenes de-
scribed below. Another curious fragment
(Fig. 19)' exhibits a large spouted vase,
apparently of bronze, with a handle of unique
form, surmounted by a white object resem-
bling a tied package, while at the side hangs
a skin vessel—such as are used for native Upper Row of Spectators, as on
cheese-here with a mammiform end. ' Grand Stand ' AT Knossos-
Is it possible that we had here provisions for those engaged in the
athletic contest—beer or wine, cheese, and perhaps a barley cake ?
Among frescoes that may be included in the ' Miniature' Class are those
of the Votive tablet from Mycenae2 and of the 'Ramp House'3. The
latter, some of which have to do with the bull-ring, also include parts of the
same group as that above described of women looking out through a window
opening, the posts of which, in close conformity
with the columnar shrine from the Thirteenth
Magazine, show the blades of inserted double axes.
The borders of these panels—where a white band
is succeeded by a yellow band with red bars and
a blue band with black—exactly correspond with
that of the ' Temple Fresco', Here the figures
answer to the Miniature scale: those of the
' Frieze of Warriors ',4 on the other hand from
the Mycenae Megaron—a composition which may
itself be safely placed well within the limits of fIG- 19 Miniature Frag-
L. M. I *—are about twice the scale of those seen MENT WITH Vase and Uncer-
M. • t 1 tain Object : Tylissos.
iniature panels.
The.' Temple Fresco' and the ' Sacred Grove and Dance ' clearly stand
in a religious relation. This conclusion is confirmed, moreover, by a re-
1 Hitherto unpublished. Drawn for me by
Monsieur E. Gillieron, fils. The vessel is
coloured red.
: See below, p. 135, Fig. 88.
3 Miss W. Lamb, B.S.A., xxiv, pp. 191-4,
and PI. VII.
1 Found by Tsountas iri 1886; Roden-
waldt, Ath. Mitth., 1922 and Der Fries des
Megarons, &°c.; B. S. A., xxv (Miss W. Lamb),
p. 164 seqq. : restored, PI. XXVII.