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)

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IMITATION OF REPOUSSE ORNAMENTS

Imitation
of re-
pousse
bands.

Proto-
types in
precious
metals of
pedes-
talled
goblets.

shield, as usually in painted designs, shows the
spots of the original ox-hide. Such little shields
suggested, perhaps, by the form of pithos handles,
were also used at this time to adorn surfaces of other
materials such as ivory and alabaster. A good
illustration of this is to be seen in the ivory shields
attached to the lid of a casket from the ' Tomb of
the Tripod Hearth' at Zafer Papoura (Fig. 237).1

A metallic suggestion is visible in the foliate
bands that surround the shoulders of several
other ' amphoras' in the 'Palace Style'. But
the specimen on which metallurgic motives are
most fully developed is that from the ' Royal
Tomb', illustrated in Fig. 238.2 Here, beneath the
foliated ring round the neck, is a further zone,
the decoration of which is clearly based on re-
pousse work. This includes the particular linked
ornamental series described above that was based
on the ' canopied was ',:i and the double rows of
connected running spirals familiar on the My-
cenae gold plates.

Smaller vessels of a class of which a special account is given belo

Fig. 236. Top Part of
Sword Blade, near Hilt.
Fourth Shaft Grave,
Mycenae.

1 Preh. Tombs of Knossos, i, p. 44, Fig. 41.
3 See especially P. ofM., ii, Pt. II, p. 480,
Fig. 287, and p. 492, Fig. 297, a, b.

"- Hi., p 15S, Fig. r43.
4 See below, p. 353seqq.

a, Ivory Lid with Shield Bosses, Tomb of ' Tripod Hearth \ Zafer
Papoura, Knossos ; b, Ivory Boss.