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)

372

PAPYRIFORM RELIEF

Fits in
with
L. M. I.
decora-
tion.

dadoes also belong.
It closely connects
itself with fresco
friezes such as those
of the Later Palace
at Tiryns,1 where
the papyrus motive
itself in an almost
identical form is com-
bined with spirals
and rosettes resemb-
ling those preserved
in situ in the Bath-
room adjoining the
' Queen's Megaron'.
A version of it is
also linked with a
fine spiraliform de-
sign in the remains
of the painted stucco
frieze believed to
have been derived
from the Upper
Chamber above the
' Hall of the Double
Axes'. All these
motives reflect the
growing influence of
Eighteenth Dynasty
ceiling decoration,
and this Egyptianiz-
ing fashion of de-
coration on the walls
was at Knossos itself
1 Rodenwaldt, Tiryns,
ii, PI. VII, and compare
the other parallel exam-
ples cited in the text, pp.
175-9. See, too, Schlie-
mann, Tiryns, PL V.

Fig. 247. Fragment of
from a Decorative Scheme :
Megaron '.

Painted Relief of
South Light-area,

Papyrus
' Queen's