Evans, Arthur J.: The Palace of Minos: a comparative account of the successive stages of the early Cretan civilization as illustred by the discoveries at Knossos (Band 3): The great transitional age in the northern and eastern sections of the Palace (London, 1930)

310 POLYCHROME GOBLET AND SHIELD FRESCO

colours were applied to a thin coating of plaster which, when analytically-
examined by Mr. Noel Heaton, proved to be of practically pure carbonate
of lime, like that of the frescoes.1

Shields
and

spirals on
' Palace
Style'
amphora.

Fig. 198. Polychrome Goblet of Sepulchral Class (L.M. la) showing 8-shaped
Shield and Helmet against Spiral Band (Tomb of Double Axes, Knossos).

Apart from these remarkable examples of Late Minoan polychrome
ware, good reproductions of shield designs are supplied by the remains of
a large amphora from the West front of the Palace. This fine vessel, now
partly restored as shown in Fig. 199, may be attributed to the earliest phase
of the ' Palace Style' that characterizes the last palatial Age of Knossos,2
and can be approximately set down to about 1450 b. c.—over two genera-
tions later than the actual date when the fresco was executed. The shields
here are rendered in a bright orange-brown glaze medium, and are involved

1 Mr. Noel Heaton, F.C.S., with Professor the polychrome vases found in the Isopata

Tomb is not so clear, though the kyanos blue
and Venetian red correspond with that seen on
the chafing pans of the Hagia Triada group.
For similar pans from a Mavro Spelio Tomb
see E. J. Forsdyke, B. S. A., xxviii, p. 292.

2 This class was first defined by me in
Knossos, Report, 1901 (B.S.A., vii, p. 51).

Halbherr's permission, tested fragments of the
painted stucco coating of some chafing pans
from Hagia Triada (T. of Double Axes, pp. 28,
29). A cup with two coiled handles exactly
resembling the Isopata specimens was found
with these chafing dishes, but the painted
coating had disappeared. The evidence from