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'TRIGLYPHS' OF 'MIDDLE PALACE'AND 'ATREUS'
Tri-
glyphs,
&c, at
Knossos
and
.Mycenae.
Fig. 171.
Part or Frieze from '
Mycenae.
Atreus ' Tomb,
Dis-
covery of
fresh
section of
' tri-
glyph'
and 'half-
rosette1
relief
band.
shrines and the portals of palatial buildings, of which the recent supple-
mentary excavations have afforded new and striking evidence.
The class of decorative bands, to which reference has already been
made in the preceding Volumes
of this work, consists of rosette
and ' triglyph' friezes in hard
stone, which will be seen to have
a very special bearing on the
origin of the similar works that
adorned the facade of the monu-
mental Tombs and of the Pro-
pylon of the Palace at Mycenae,
This dependent relation of the architectonic decorative motives in the
great Mainland centre is itself, as we shall see, only one evidence out of
many of a much wider indebtedness.
The immediate relationship in -which these stand to the similar relief-
bands at Mycenae at once strikes the eye. So intimately bound up, indeed,
with the Knossian Palace itself, and so historically important is the field
of comparison thus opened, that, at the risk of repetition and of some
digression, it seems necessary here to call attention to a series of decorative
elements supplied by the 'Middle Palace' at Knossos that repeat them-
selves in the facades of the ' Atreus' and ' Clytemnestra' Tombs. To these
may be added certain sculptural reliefs and lapidary works associated with
the interior of their vaults or with their avenues of approach.
These correspondences establish for the first time on a secure basis
the conclusion that the great bee-hive tombs belong to the same Third
Middle Minoan date as the earliest elements of the Shaft Graves. They sap
the very foundations of the theory, still held in certain quarters, according
to which the two forms of interment are taken to represent the work of two
successive dynasties, that of the pit burials being the earlier. They supply, in
fact, the true clue to what may be not inaptly called 'the riddle of Mycenae .
New Section of 'Triglyph' Frieze. Comparisons with 'Atreus' facade
at Mycenae.
A fresh example of a section of a frieze of the character referred to was
—like the altar above described—also supplied by the recent explorations
West of the Palace (Fig. 172). It occurred among the debris contained
in a choked well thus brought to light in the South-West angle of the
West Court, and, with its spiral triglyph between the half rosettes and
Tri-
glyphs,
&c, at
Knossos
and
.Mycenae.
Fig. 171.
Part or Frieze from '
Mycenae.
Atreus ' Tomb,
Dis-
covery of
fresh
section of
' tri-
glyph'
and 'half-
rosette1
relief
band.
shrines and the portals of palatial buildings, of which the recent supple-
mentary excavations have afforded new and striking evidence.
The class of decorative bands, to which reference has already been
made in the preceding Volumes
of this work, consists of rosette
and ' triglyph' friezes in hard
stone, which will be seen to have
a very special bearing on the
origin of the similar works that
adorned the facade of the monu-
mental Tombs and of the Pro-
pylon of the Palace at Mycenae,
This dependent relation of the architectonic decorative motives in the
great Mainland centre is itself, as we shall see, only one evidence out of
many of a much wider indebtedness.
The immediate relationship in -which these stand to the similar relief-
bands at Mycenae at once strikes the eye. So intimately bound up, indeed,
with the Knossian Palace itself, and so historically important is the field
of comparison thus opened, that, at the risk of repetition and of some
digression, it seems necessary here to call attention to a series of decorative
elements supplied by the 'Middle Palace' at Knossos that repeat them-
selves in the facades of the ' Atreus' and ' Clytemnestra' Tombs. To these
may be added certain sculptural reliefs and lapidary works associated with
the interior of their vaults or with their avenues of approach.
These correspondences establish for the first time on a secure basis
the conclusion that the great bee-hive tombs belong to the same Third
Middle Minoan date as the earliest elements of the Shaft Graves. They sap
the very foundations of the theory, still held in certain quarters, according
to which the two forms of interment are taken to represent the work of two
successive dynasties, that of the pit burials being the earlier. They supply, in
fact, the true clue to what may be not inaptly called 'the riddle of Mycenae .
New Section of 'Triglyph' Frieze. Comparisons with 'Atreus' facade
at Mycenae.
A fresh example of a section of a frieze of the character referred to was
—like the altar above described—also supplied by the recent explorations
West of the Palace (Fig. 172). It occurred among the debris contained
in a choked well thus brought to light in the South-West angle of the
West Court, and, with its spiral triglyph between the half rosettes and