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)

308 OCTOPUS TYPES ON 'AMPHORAS'

circle. In the adjoining field marine elements, such as the stipple-work and
a small argonaut motive, are combined with conventionalized papyrus and

Fig. 242. ' Amphora ' from North-West Palace Fie. 243. ' Amphora ' from ' Royal Tomb '

Border (L. M. II l>), at Isopata (L. M. II i).

lotus sprays.1 A variant of the above type, with three six-armed octopods,
in separate enclosures within a stippled field, as in Fig. 243, occurred on an-
other Palace ' amphora' found on the North-West Sanctuary borders.2

Octopus designs of a similar character begin to occur on the pedestal
goblets of the Palace Style. Examples of these are given below from
the South-West Palace angle.3 We see here the predecessor—itself displayed
in a fairly natural manner—of a much later series of symmetrical octopods
that are found on the stemmed goblets of the succeeding period.

In the ' amphora', Fig. 244, from the Tomb of the Double Axes,1 where
1 A further fragment of this vase showing - Now in the Candia Museum,

a lotus spray is reproduced in Fig. 258, p. 319. * See p. 362, Fig. 302 b.

The ' sun-flowers' there seen within the coils ■' Tomb of the Double Axis, cW., p- 4°i

are perhaps derived from the facing lotus Fig. 63 (Candia Museum),
flower as seen in Egyptian decorative Art.