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396 CHRONOLOGICAL PLACE OF ' CAMP-STOOL FRESCO'
Chronological Place of ' Camp-Stool Frescoes'.
For the chronological place of the ' Cam p-S tool Frescoes' perhaps the
evidence, best guide is supplied by their place of finding, as above mentioned, on both
sides of the wall at the end of the 13th and 14th Magazines, and in near
association with fragments of Palace Style 'amphoras' and jars. This
evidence at least brings the wall painting to which they belonged within
the limits of the last palatial Age. They cannot well be later therefore
thanL.M. II, while, on the other hand, the ' Triglyph Frieze', also found
in this area, may itself well go back to the earliest phase of the New
Palace, belonging to the great restoration of the transitional M. M. III<5-
L. M. I Age, or at latest to the partial remodelling about the close of the
mature L. M. la epoch.
The somewhat crude style of the workmanship does not itself involve an
exceptionally late date, and indeed is paralleled by that of many of the male
figures in the background crowds of the ' Miniature Frescoes', belonging to
the closing" M.'M. Ill stage. The staring eyes and some other details some-
what recall the ' Captain of the Blacks', which may belong to early
L. M. II. It is also noteworthy that the borders of plain bands recall in
a simplified aspect those of the ' House of the Frescoes' assigned to the
upper limits of L. M. I a. They contrast with the imitation intarsia work
that seems to have been almost universally prevalent at the time of the
latest redecoration of the building, and which had already begun indeed in
connexion with the ' Taureador Frescoes' of somewhat earlier date. 1 he
presumption is that the 'Camp-Stool Frescoes'—as belonging to the wall
decoration—were earlier in date than the ' Palace Style' vases found in the
same area. This would take them at least to the early part of L. M. I <'■
The shape of the cups is consistent with this dating.
In corroboration of the somewhat early dating it may be recalled that
the ' Palanquin Frescoes', which, both in the subject—including, besides
long-robed personages, part of an actual folding seat—as well as in its some-
what inferior style, shows distinct affinities with the present group, seems
from the associations in which it was found to have been executed betore
the close of the First Late Minoan Period.1
1 See J', of M., ii, Pt. II, p. 770.
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396 CHRONOLOGICAL PLACE OF ' CAMP-STOOL FRESCO'
Chronological Place of ' Camp-Stool Frescoes'.
For the chronological place of the ' Cam p-S tool Frescoes' perhaps the
evidence, best guide is supplied by their place of finding, as above mentioned, on both
sides of the wall at the end of the 13th and 14th Magazines, and in near
association with fragments of Palace Style 'amphoras' and jars. This
evidence at least brings the wall painting to which they belonged within
the limits of the last palatial Age. They cannot well be later therefore
thanL.M. II, while, on the other hand, the ' Triglyph Frieze', also found
in this area, may itself well go back to the earliest phase of the New
Palace, belonging to the great restoration of the transitional M. M. III<5-
L. M. I Age, or at latest to the partial remodelling about the close of the
mature L. M. la epoch.
The somewhat crude style of the workmanship does not itself involve an
exceptionally late date, and indeed is paralleled by that of many of the male
figures in the background crowds of the ' Miniature Frescoes', belonging to
the closing" M.'M. Ill stage. The staring eyes and some other details some-
what recall the ' Captain of the Blacks', which may belong to early
L. M. II. It is also noteworthy that the borders of plain bands recall in
a simplified aspect those of the ' House of the Frescoes' assigned to the
upper limits of L. M. I a. They contrast with the imitation intarsia work
that seems to have been almost universally prevalent at the time of the
latest redecoration of the building, and which had already begun indeed in
connexion with the ' Taureador Frescoes' of somewhat earlier date. 1 he
presumption is that the 'Camp-Stool Frescoes'—as belonging to the wall
decoration—were earlier in date than the ' Palace Style' vases found in the
same area. This would take them at least to the early part of L. M. I <'■
The shape of the cups is consistent with this dating.
In corroboration of the somewhat early dating it may be recalled that
the ' Palanquin Frescoes', which, both in the subject—including, besides
long-robed personages, part of an actual folding seat—as well as in its some-
what inferior style, shows distinct affinities with the present group, seems
from the associations in which it was found to have been executed betore
the close of the First Late Minoan Period.1
1 See J', of M., ii, Pt. II, p. 770.