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)

224 TRIGLYPH BANDS FROM KNOSSOS AND MYCENAE

it cannot be doubted that the reliefs of the Mycenae facade were the
of Minoan lapidaries trained in the Knossian School.

In painted design, fragments of similar half-rosette friezes__w'tl

Fig. 173. Plan and Sections of Part of ' Triglyph ' and Half-rosette Band from
South-West Porch, Knossos. By Theodore Fyfe.

different triglyph pattern—were found in the deposits beneath the Iowei

d'encesof receptacles of the cists in the XHIth West Magazine at Knossos, the a e

of which seems to go well back within the borders of M. M. III.1 A pan1

such
friezes at

Knossos plaster copy of a triglyph and half-rosette is again seen below the ceil ^
opening of the Columnar Shrine in the Miniature Fresco - answering, a
been shown, to the closing M. M. Ill stage. As in the case of the eai

M. M.

Ill

frescoes.

1 A restored section of one of these painted character of the fresco remains
plaster fragments is given in P. of M., ii, these receptacles see ibid., i, P- 443
Pt. II, p. 604, Fig. 377. For the early ' = Ibid., ii, Pt. II, P- 597. FiS' 3' '