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PILLAR SHRINE FRIEZES SURVIVING ON LATE BOWLS
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inappropriately inserted on the upright bars that stand for the pillars
into which the Double Axes were stuck. The outer edges of the axes
themselves, on either side of these bars, become here the centres of
elongated oval fig-
ures—the whole sug-
gesting the familiar
half-rosettes of Mi-
noan friezes with their
triglyph-like divisions.
On some of the up-
right bars of the ' am-
phora ', indeed — of
which a section is de-
veloped in Fig. 292—
we see a runningspiral
ornament that at times
appears in relief on
the stone triglyphs.
In the lower line these figures follow one another exactly as does
the architectonic version on Minoan friezes. As in the case of the half-
rosettes J the limit of division at the end of the group is here, too, on the
side of the vertical end of the wing and not—as might have been supposed—
at the rounded end of a linked pair.
Fig. 292. Section of 'Amphora' Fig. 291, developed.
' Pillar Shrine' Friezes of ' Palace Style ' surviving in Decorative
Motives of Late Mycenaean Bowls.
This ' Palace Style' frieze has a curious interest from its unquestionable
relation to a series of ornamental motives that appear on ' kraters ' of a
Mainland class belonging to a comparatively late ' Mycenaean ' epoch corre-
sponding with an advanced phase of L. M. Ill in Crete. These are
specially abundant at Mycenae itself.2
Examples of such designs, together with one of the ' kraters', are given
in the Comparative Table, Fig. 293. It will be seen that the original post
or pillar, representing that into which the ritual Axes were embedded, is at
times widened out as in Fig. 293, a, b. It is there converted into a kind of
Survival
of Pillar
Shrine
motives
on late
bowls
from My
cenae.
1 See Theodore Fyfe in P. of M., ii, Pt, II,
p. 606 and my remarks on pp. 607, 60S.
In my account of the 'amphora', Fig.
290, I already referred to the taking over of
the friezes there represented on the late
pottery of Mycenae {Trek. Tombs of Knossos,
Archaeologia, lix (1906), p. 16 r.
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inappropriately inserted on the upright bars that stand for the pillars
into which the Double Axes were stuck. The outer edges of the axes
themselves, on either side of these bars, become here the centres of
elongated oval fig-
ures—the whole sug-
gesting the familiar
half-rosettes of Mi-
noan friezes with their
triglyph-like divisions.
On some of the up-
right bars of the ' am-
phora ', indeed — of
which a section is de-
veloped in Fig. 292—
we see a runningspiral
ornament that at times
appears in relief on
the stone triglyphs.
In the lower line these figures follow one another exactly as does
the architectonic version on Minoan friezes. As in the case of the half-
rosettes J the limit of division at the end of the group is here, too, on the
side of the vertical end of the wing and not—as might have been supposed—
at the rounded end of a linked pair.
Fig. 292. Section of 'Amphora' Fig. 291, developed.
' Pillar Shrine' Friezes of ' Palace Style ' surviving in Decorative
Motives of Late Mycenaean Bowls.
This ' Palace Style' frieze has a curious interest from its unquestionable
relation to a series of ornamental motives that appear on ' kraters ' of a
Mainland class belonging to a comparatively late ' Mycenaean ' epoch corre-
sponding with an advanced phase of L. M. Ill in Crete. These are
specially abundant at Mycenae itself.2
Examples of such designs, together with one of the ' kraters', are given
in the Comparative Table, Fig. 293. It will be seen that the original post
or pillar, representing that into which the ritual Axes were embedded, is at
times widened out as in Fig. 293, a, b. It is there converted into a kind of
Survival
of Pillar
Shrine
motives
on late
bowls
from My
cenae.
1 See Theodore Fyfe in P. of M., ii, Pt, II,
p. 606 and my remarks on pp. 607, 60S.
In my account of the 'amphora', Fig.
290, I already referred to the taking over of
the friezes there represented on the late
pottery of Mycenae {Trek. Tombs of Knossos,
Archaeologia, lix (1906), p. 16 r.