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CEILING PATTERNS OF KNOSSOS AND TIRYNS S75
from the Early Palace, are closely paralleled at Mycenae l and again by i„ the
specimens from the miscellaneous fresco heap to the North-West of the -^~f
CTJ Yeulow.
VewETIflN Ke
Fig. 864. Ceiling Fragment in Relief : Painted
Stucco : ' Queen's Megaron ' (developed).
Fig. 865. Ceiling Fragment: Painted
Stucco in the Flat, N.W. Heap, Rnossos.
Palace at Knossos. Of these, Fig. 865 2 is almost exactly reproduced by the
low relief ceiling pattern on the fragment (Fig. 864) associated with the
Queen's Megaron. Another piece from the same heap (Fig. 866) stands in
the same relationship, though here the sprays are horizontally set. This in
turn is inseparable in design from a Tiryns frieze3 (Fig. 867).
The close approximation in the decorative design as seen in friezes
from the two Palaces, already noted in the case of Figs. 864 and 865, is
here, moreover, enhanced by the insertion in both cases of a detail for which
Mycenae,
and
Knossos.
Tiryn-
thian and
Knossian
origins by
same
hand.
A.S.A., xxv, PI. LXIX, reconstruction
(from Palace, Mycenae) of section of frieze:
Tsountas' excavations, in the Nauplia Museum.
Cf. VV. Lamb, op. at, p. 169. Rodenwaldt,
°P- ai-, p. 49 (cf. note 1), considers the fresco
not only as contemporary with that of the
earlier Palace at Tiryns, but possibly by the
same hand as the similar frieze from there.
In Mr. Fyfe's Painted Plaster Decoration
at JTnossos (R.L.B-A. fount., 1902), p. 125,
^'g- 62, this fragment is drawn as part of the
same band as the specimen shown here in
Fig. 866. The colouring is very different,
however, and it has been here sketched in
another position.
' Rodenwaldt, Tiryns, ii, PI. vii, 1. Cf. pp.
40-42 and restored drawing, Fig. 11. As com-
pared with the Tiryns fragments that from
Knossos was comparatively dull in colouring,
a bluish grey being substituted for blue. It
looks as if at the time when it was made the
Egyptian kyaiws was becoming rarer at Knos-
sos.
from the Early Palace, are closely paralleled at Mycenae l and again by i„ the
specimens from the miscellaneous fresco heap to the North-West of the -^~f
CTJ Yeulow.
VewETIflN Ke
Fig. 864. Ceiling Fragment in Relief : Painted
Stucco : ' Queen's Megaron ' (developed).
Fig. 865. Ceiling Fragment: Painted
Stucco in the Flat, N.W. Heap, Rnossos.
Palace at Knossos. Of these, Fig. 865 2 is almost exactly reproduced by the
low relief ceiling pattern on the fragment (Fig. 864) associated with the
Queen's Megaron. Another piece from the same heap (Fig. 866) stands in
the same relationship, though here the sprays are horizontally set. This in
turn is inseparable in design from a Tiryns frieze3 (Fig. 867).
The close approximation in the decorative design as seen in friezes
from the two Palaces, already noted in the case of Figs. 864 and 865, is
here, moreover, enhanced by the insertion in both cases of a detail for which
Mycenae,
and
Knossos.
Tiryn-
thian and
Knossian
origins by
same
hand.
A.S.A., xxv, PI. LXIX, reconstruction
(from Palace, Mycenae) of section of frieze:
Tsountas' excavations, in the Nauplia Museum.
Cf. VV. Lamb, op. at, p. 169. Rodenwaldt,
°P- ai-, p. 49 (cf. note 1), considers the fresco
not only as contemporary with that of the
earlier Palace at Tiryns, but possibly by the
same hand as the similar frieze from there.
In Mr. Fyfe's Painted Plaster Decoration
at JTnossos (R.L.B-A. fount., 1902), p. 125,
^'g- 62, this fragment is drawn as part of the
same band as the specimen shown here in
Fig. 866. The colouring is very different,
however, and it has been here sketched in
another position.
' Rodenwaldt, Tiryns, ii, PI. vii, 1. Cf. pp.
40-42 and restored drawing, Fig. 11. As com-
pared with the Tiryns fragments that from
Knossos was comparatively dull in colouring,
a bluish grey being substituted for blue. It
looks as if at the time when it was made the
Egyptian kyaiws was becoming rarer at Knos-
sos.