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)

896 IMITATION MARBLE DADO OF M. M. Ilia DATE

£*?% , seem to have been the actual dado slabs in mottled, highly polished marhlp
Fresco': belonging to the earlier Propylaeum, were discovered in its stone Repository
M.M.m. bejow_ Most illuminating of all, and belonging probably to the same early

Fig.

74. Painted Stucco Dado from East Palace Border showing
Naturalistic Imitation of Marble Panels.

Late

Mainland

copies.

M. M. Ill Period (a), is the actual section of the painted stucco dado known
as the ' Marbled Fresco ''—found in close relation to the 'Labyrinth Fresco
—variegated in the most natural manner with bands and veins of brown and
orange hues (Fig. 874). The finely drawn black frames that here define the
imitation slabs recall those of the analogous pavement patterns of Mycenae
and Tiryns which, together with the late dado of the Knossian West Porch,
must be regarded as remote descendants of similar works of Art.

' Sculp-
tor's

workshop'
with un-
finished
vases of
same
L.M. II
epoch.

The ' Sculptor's Workshop '.

In a small room adjoining the ' Loggia of the Cow-boy frescoes , the
walls of which could hardly at any time have boasted much decoration,
part of the floor was still preserved presenting every evidence of its having
served as the workshop of a lapidary whose activity was cut suddenly shoi
by the final catastrophe of the building.

Here, on the upper level, only very slightly sunken and with its uppef
part some 25 centimetres beneath the surface of the ground, was found a

1 See P. o/M., i, p. 356, Fig. 25o, which Figure is here reproduced.