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BEADED FESTOONS AND CROCUS PENDANTS 287

marine vase decoration such as we see it interspersed with Argonauts on

the ' Marseilles ' ewer and the
(Fig. 213) from Nestor's Pylos.
Both the vases themselves and
the decorative motives that they
present belong to the Knossian
cycle, and in their origins are in-
dissolubly connected with the
past history of the Great Palace.
This alternation of beaded
festoons and pendant crocus
flowers with marine motives has
received fresh illustration from
the site of Knossos in the frag-
mentary remains of two vases
shown in Figs. 221 and 222. In
the first casel conventional rocks

' amphora' of the same ' pithoid' type

Fig. 221. Pendant Crocus and Conventional
Rock Motive, .Knossos, L. M. 16.

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Fig. 222. Pendant Crocus and Marine Motive, Knossos, L. M. I b.
are introduced between the pendants. In Fig. 222,2 here developed, the

1 On what seems to be part of a ' pithoid in diameter. From North of the High Priest's

amphora', from a wall of the South-West House (T. P. 3, 1931). For a similar marine

House explored in 1931. The diameter of creature in profile, see P. of M., ii, Pt. II.

the fragment is 14-2 cm. p. 506, Fig. 310 b.

' The lower part of a jug with a base 6-2 cm.
 
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