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)

NEW SECTION OF TRIGLYPH BAND FROM KNOSSOS 223

the barred ' tongues' within these, it answers in all its details to those that
seem to have belonged to the doorway of the ' North-West Porch ' (Fig. 172).













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the West Court of the Palace at Knossos. [e. |)

The measurements practically correspond, and, as in the other case, the

material is a close-grained grey limestone.

In my little work on the Shaft Graves of Mycenae ' attention was drawn identical

to the correspondence of the stone frieze from the Knossian Porch with the frieze of

similar relief band of the 'Atreus' Tomb at Mycenae (Fief. 171) which also 'AtrfU8'

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extends to the spiral decoration of the ' triglyphs ! and the cross-bars on the Mycenae.

'tongues' of the rosettes. Fragments of similar friezes were associated

with the ' Clytemnestra' Tomb and the Propylon of the Palace at Mycenae.2

Whether imported ready carved in Cretan stone or executed on the spot,

1 A. E., The Shaft Craves and Bee-hive
Tombs of Mycenae and their Interrelation
(Macmiltans, 1929).

~ W. Lamb, B. S. A., xxv, p. 236, Fig. 47, a

where another similar fragment, of a frieze
is illustrated (Fig. 47, b) from the Hellenistic
Gymnasium at Mycenae.