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ARCHITECTONIC MOTIVES REAPPEAR PER SALTUM 351
the palatial cycle. The waved lines of Fig. 293 a for instance, thus taken
over, are seen on the fine 'Palace Style' jar, Fig. 273 (p.331), standing
in their proper place as the Egyptian equivalent of water, beside the Nilotic
papyrus. At times these waved lines are more sparsely espaced.
A close parallelism is presented by the upright central pillars that Appear-
are combined with the octopus type (Fig. 293, c, d) on a contemporary class of ;l|"ecseeof
Mainland stemmed goblets of which specimens are given below in the Supple- motives
ment to § 99.1 These reproduce the waved lines and chequer work of the salimn.
palatial group, as well as a rope pattern, certainly derived from the linked
scrolls of some of the triglyphs, as seen on the 'amphora' Fig. 292. In
the example here shown in Fig. 293, c, derivatives of the ritual Axes them-
selves may be recognized above the transformed head of the cephalopod.
The persistence of these religious types might to a certain extent be
explained as due to the survival of the same Cult of the Double-Axe pillars
to which the original designs refer. That such a cult existed at Mycenae
as well as Knossos is shown bjr the fresco fragment brought to light by
Schliemann and illustrated above in Volume II.2 But the remarkable feature
in the present case is that, though the origin of these sacral motives is clear
and its source at hand in the ' Palace Style ' fabrics of Knossos, no inter-
mediate ceramic links are visible.
These ' Metope' patterns on vases appear at Mycenae per sa/ium, after
an interval of years occupied by the earlier phase of the 'Mycenaean'
ceramic style proper 3—the Mainland equivalent of the corresponding L. M.
Ilia phase. The later series to which the present ' kraters' and goblets
belong follows closely on to the works of the ' Late Revival' to which atten-
tion is called above. They belong to the initial stage of (Late)' Mycenaean B',
and their approximate date is shown by the fact that this ' panel' style in a
decadent form was still in vogue in the early part of the Twelfth Century B.C.,
when it was taken over by the Philistine settlers on the coast of Canaan.
These Mycenaean vessels can hardly date earlier than 1300 B.C.
This chronological approximation, it may be observed, has a certain
interest in relation to the fragment of a 'deep bowl' of this style, here
reproduced, in Fig. 294,* brought to light in the course of the excavations
1 See especially C. Blegen, Zygouries, p. 146, class distinction there seen as Late Mycenaean
Fig- 137- • These and other variant designs of A and B. See his Introduction to the B.M.
this series were found on goblets from the Catalogue of Prehistoric Aegean Pottery
'Potters' Shop'. (1925), p. xxviii seqq.
2 P. 60 r, Fig, 373 c. ' A. J. B. Wace, B.S.A., xxv, p. 357, Fig.
! Mr. E. J. Forsdyke has well defined the 176 a. See above, p. 23S.
the palatial cycle. The waved lines of Fig. 293 a for instance, thus taken
over, are seen on the fine 'Palace Style' jar, Fig. 273 (p.331), standing
in their proper place as the Egyptian equivalent of water, beside the Nilotic
papyrus. At times these waved lines are more sparsely espaced.
A close parallelism is presented by the upright central pillars that Appear-
are combined with the octopus type (Fig. 293, c, d) on a contemporary class of ;l|"ecseeof
Mainland stemmed goblets of which specimens are given below in the Supple- motives
ment to § 99.1 These reproduce the waved lines and chequer work of the salimn.
palatial group, as well as a rope pattern, certainly derived from the linked
scrolls of some of the triglyphs, as seen on the 'amphora' Fig. 292. In
the example here shown in Fig. 293, c, derivatives of the ritual Axes them-
selves may be recognized above the transformed head of the cephalopod.
The persistence of these religious types might to a certain extent be
explained as due to the survival of the same Cult of the Double-Axe pillars
to which the original designs refer. That such a cult existed at Mycenae
as well as Knossos is shown bjr the fresco fragment brought to light by
Schliemann and illustrated above in Volume II.2 But the remarkable feature
in the present case is that, though the origin of these sacral motives is clear
and its source at hand in the ' Palace Style ' fabrics of Knossos, no inter-
mediate ceramic links are visible.
These ' Metope' patterns on vases appear at Mycenae per sa/ium, after
an interval of years occupied by the earlier phase of the 'Mycenaean'
ceramic style proper 3—the Mainland equivalent of the corresponding L. M.
Ilia phase. The later series to which the present ' kraters' and goblets
belong follows closely on to the works of the ' Late Revival' to which atten-
tion is called above. They belong to the initial stage of (Late)' Mycenaean B',
and their approximate date is shown by the fact that this ' panel' style in a
decadent form was still in vogue in the early part of the Twelfth Century B.C.,
when it was taken over by the Philistine settlers on the coast of Canaan.
These Mycenaean vessels can hardly date earlier than 1300 B.C.
This chronological approximation, it may be observed, has a certain
interest in relation to the fragment of a 'deep bowl' of this style, here
reproduced, in Fig. 294,* brought to light in the course of the excavations
1 See especially C. Blegen, Zygouries, p. 146, class distinction there seen as Late Mycenaean
Fig- 137- • These and other variant designs of A and B. See his Introduction to the B.M.
this series were found on goblets from the Catalogue of Prehistoric Aegean Pottery
'Potters' Shop'. (1925), p. xxviii seqq.
2 P. 60 r, Fig, 373 c. ' A. J. B. Wace, B.S.A., xxv, p. 357, Fig.
! Mr. E. J. Forsdyke has well defined the 176 a. See above, p. 23S.