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)

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here (Fig. 254) from Mr. Theodore Fyfe's illustration,1 was nearly half
a metre wide (49 cm.), and, owing to its triple border bands, exceeded in
dimensions the analogous friezes with running spirals, remains of which were

Fig. 254. Section of Spiral Frieze in Bath-room (Theodore Fyfe).

found in the adjoining ' Megaron', and the ' Hall of the Double Axes'} One
and all of these and another fragmentary example in the adjoining ' Corridor
of the Painted Pithos ' formed part, as already pointed out,3 of an extensive
redecoration of this Palace region towards the close of L. M. I a, to which
the 'Shield Fresco' of the Staircase Loggia, with its similar spiral band,
must also be added.

1 Painted Plaster Decoration at Knossos
(J?. I. B. A. Jottrn., x), Fig. 43.

2 The spiral band itself is 30 cm. in diameter
as compared with 2 7 cm. in the ' Hall of the
Double Axes'. In the other case, more-

over, the spiral frieze itself is only bordered by
single bands so that the total breadth is about
33 cm. as compared with 43 in the case of the
Bath-room.
3 See above, p. 281.