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 4,2): Camp-stool Fresco, long-robed priests and beneficent genii [...] (London, 1935)

§94 BULL-CATCHING SCENE ABOVE 'MARBLED' DADO

but an idea of the original effect is given in Fig. 873, from a sketch bv
Mr. Piet de Jong.1 Here the'graining appears on painted imitations of
square blocks, arranged, in this case, from left to right in threes, with

TRACES OF BULLS SPOT
ON UPPER FRAGMENT

Fig. 873. Remains of Left Wall of ' West Porch ' showing Painted Stucco Facing
with Bull's Fore-foot raised above Dado of Imitation Marble Blocks and Brown
Spot of the'Animal visible on Upper Patch of Plaster.

a graduated succession of colours from pale yellow with darker veins to rose
and blue. Above this was a dark narrow band, and, in the creamy white
field above, the fore-foot of a galloping bull, while on a separate piece,
higher up, a brown spot of the bull's side was visible.

Parts of two underlying plaster layers were distinguishable with some
traces of black spots, and sufficient indications that bull-grappling scenes
had been here executed at three different epochs, the first no doubt con-
temporary with the construction of the Porch in its later shape, and the

1 Owing partly to the perspective view the square to oblong is not here sufficiently
fact that the painted panels alternated from brought out.