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)

258 PILLAR IN LOW RELIEF AS ON TOMB WALL

Baetylic
pillar in
Tomb of
Double
Axes com
pared.

baetylic form or, more probably, the pillar form of the Goddess who
sacred emblems were found near it.

As seen on the sculptured slab before us, the suggestion of a similar
pillar may at least be taken as an indication that it had a similar relio-ious
significance. There is not sufficient evidence that the fragments before us
actually formed part of a sepulchral stela. They may, indeed, have be-
longed to the facade of some sanctuary structure. The character of the
double spiral band in any case supplies a real parallel to the similar feature
on the Mycenae Grave-stone, and we are taken directly to Knossos as the
home of this type of lapidary decoration, though both it and the rosette
may well be of somewhat later date.

Fig. 191 b. Fragment of Slab with Part of Spiral Border and Section of Flat
Column : Knossos.