ii4
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
,M
C
• t7i/,r,"
mlima
Si
KwHm
of j^mMii-ti
t= SEPIA
h
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,
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
,M
C
• t7i/,r,"
mlima
Si
KwHm
of j^mMii-ti
t= SEPIA
h
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,