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FRESCO OF DANCING LADY: 'QUEEN'S MEGARON' 71

in this position, for which the self-contained nature of the subject made it
specially suitable.

Fig.40. Dancing Female Figure, from Queen's Megaron '. (From Photo, of Original.)

There can be little doubt that this fresco belonged to the same epoch of Mature
re-decoration in this and the adjoining chambers as the spiral dado of the WorjJ
bath-room and its connected system. It would therefore have been executed
about the close of the earlier L. M. I phase and belongs to a date approach-
ing 1500 B.C. It is therefore of decidedly later date than the ' Sacred Grove
and Dance'.