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 4,1): Emergence of outer western enceinte, with new illustrations, artistic and religious, of the Middle Minoan Phase (London, 1935)

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CONVENTIONALIZED SHELL-TYPE M. M. I b

shape of a spiral offshoot that is somewhat difficult to explain as representing
the apex of a shell.

This coil, indeed, recalls those regularly attached to Minoan butterflies

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Fig. 80. M. M. I b Polychrome Pottery with Conventionalized Shell Pattern.
a, Kamares Cave; &, K.N0SSOS(restored from fragments); c, Knossos,on Pedestal

of 'Fruit Dish'.

Perhaps (the antennae being omitted), and which there stand for the proboscis,
fromtim- '3 '' possible that in this case, too, we have a reminiscence of the very
shell. prominent proboscis—here misplaced—of the favourite Tun-shell of the

Minoans ?

The same motive as that seen in Fig. SO, a, occurs in a modified form

on the M. M. I b vessel, of which a drawing, restored from fragments,