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)

'0G1VAL CANOPY' ON PALACE STYLE VASES

recurs on the three faces of an 'amphora' from the' Tomb of the Double Axes'
at Knossos (Fig. 261).1 The intervening" spaces here are filled by a con-
ventional representation of rock-work,
taken from the ' marine' ceramic cycle.
In a form suggestive of its origin
in ornamental metal-work, the ogival
canopy is also repeated in a series of

Fig. 260. ' Amphora ! from North-West Palace
Border with ' Ogival Canopy ', etc.

Fig. 261.

'Amphora ' from Tomb of
Douisle Axes.

linked spirals on the amphora illustrated above in Fig. 238.- A curious
survival of this metallurgic aspect is-found, moreover, on the rim of the
very late specimen of this class of vessel illustrated below in Fig. 279 8.

A similar ogival design displaying double rosettes—here with four
petals recurs en the line ' amphora' (Fig. 202, a)+—of Knossian fabric and

1 See.A. I£-, Tombofthe Double Axes, .&v., ' This 'amphora' was illustrated in con-

p. 47 and p. 49, Fig- 65. nexion with the ' Palace Style' of Knossos by

'- See pp. 302, 303. Dr. D. Mackenzie (/. J/. .S'., xxiii. 1903, p. I02>

1 p. 336. Fig. 10). See, too, Part II, § 116.