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)

FOOT AND STAND OF M. M. II CLAY FIGURE

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of the stand is irregular black decoration fringed with a kind of lilac
border, painted on the pale buff ground—a characteristic feature of fine
egg-shell pottery of the mature M. M. II a class.1 The height of the

Fig. 315. a, b, c, Foot and Lower Part of Stand of Painted Terra-cotta Figurine.
M. M. II a Deposit, Knossos (-J).

figurine to which this unique fragment belongs could not have been less than
40 centimetres [c. 16inches). It seems to have been hollow internally and antici-
pates in its fabric Greek votive figurines executed some twelve centuries later.
Carefully, however, as the foot is here executed, the arrangement of the
toes is stiff and regular, and we are still far behind the lively naturalistic

1 See D. Mackenzie, The Middle Mincan Pottery of Knossos {J. H. S., xxvi, pp. 254,
255, and PI. VIII: especially Figs. 2 and 18).