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)

BARRED SPRAYS: DERIVED FROM PALM FRUTESCENCE 367

ornamentalized ceramic stage from the Boeotian Thebes and Ialysos in
Rhodes are given in Fig. 307, a, b, and it seems to be an inevitable con-

Fig. 307. Barred Sprays as derived from Palm Frdtescence. a, Thebes, Boeotia ;
l>, Ialysos ; c, on Cup Fragments, Knossos ; d, Maroni, Cyprus ; e, ' Ephyraean ',

elusion that the cross dashes sprung from the conventionalized sprays there
seen. To understand the origins of these we have to go back to the
Knossian Palace of a much earlier date, and to M. M. II b and M. M. Ill a
polychromy.1

The stage of evolution represented by the Knossian fragment,

1 See P. ofM., i, p. 254, Fig. 190, <z, i, and Table, Fig. 301. The suggestion for the
P- 594, Fig- 436 c : and for the later evolution, 'bars' is first given by slight border excre-
P- of M., ii, Pt. II, p. 496, Comparative scenses as shown in Fig. 308, a, below.