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PAINTED SPRAYS OF INCENSE-BURNER
,,,. find associated with the thickets behind the Griffin Fresco (PI. XXXV, c) sprays
! • i l A • t . i paralleled
and, again, beside the Argonaut m another contemporary frieze, also re- byTell-el-
ferred to the latest Palatial ;v™rn!l
epoch. The same charac- painting.
teristic feature recurs on
jars of the ' Palace Style'
and in remains of the
Mycenae wall - paintings
(Suppl.Pl.LXVI,c 1,2) that
attest the supremacy there
of Knossos, at least in ar-
tistic fashion, at this time.
What is particularly
interesting to note is that
a closely parallel vegetable
type with a similar colour
scheme appears on pottery
from Akhenaten's Palace
at Tell-el-Amarna, dating
from the beginning of the
second quarter of the Four-
teenth Century B.C. In the
same zone in Coloured PL
XXXV, dl it is coupled
with the forepart of a bo-
vine animal, which recalls
the cattle sporting on the
Nile-side meadows of the
pavement there uncovered.
The Egyptian element in these sprays, as here displayed by the papyrus
tuft, above them on the Plate, and, again, in the ' Room of the Throne' at
Knossos, cannot be called in question.
But the striated leaves themselves are not Egyptian. They are derived This
from a rendering of palm-leaves that already appears in the polychrome foliage'
designs of M. M. 11 a vases.2 They are taken over, somewhat later, as a f^fm
conventional decoration of the plant-forms of composite character (Fig. 963) tion from
that were found, modelled in Knossian faience, in the ' Temple Repositories', £j™'_
From part of a large painted pot in the Ashmolean Museum.
E.g. on the early 'Ostrich-egg rhytpn', P. of M., i, Fig. 436 C, opp. p. 594.
3 U -
- Fig. 963. Faience Spray with Lily-Like Flower
and Striated Foliage, suggested by Palm Leaves :
Temple Repository, Knossos.
,,,. find associated with the thickets behind the Griffin Fresco (PI. XXXV, c) sprays
! • i l A • t . i paralleled
and, again, beside the Argonaut m another contemporary frieze, also re- byTell-el-
ferred to the latest Palatial ;v™rn!l
epoch. The same charac- painting.
teristic feature recurs on
jars of the ' Palace Style'
and in remains of the
Mycenae wall - paintings
(Suppl.Pl.LXVI,c 1,2) that
attest the supremacy there
of Knossos, at least in ar-
tistic fashion, at this time.
What is particularly
interesting to note is that
a closely parallel vegetable
type with a similar colour
scheme appears on pottery
from Akhenaten's Palace
at Tell-el-Amarna, dating
from the beginning of the
second quarter of the Four-
teenth Century B.C. In the
same zone in Coloured PL
XXXV, dl it is coupled
with the forepart of a bo-
vine animal, which recalls
the cattle sporting on the
Nile-side meadows of the
pavement there uncovered.
The Egyptian element in these sprays, as here displayed by the papyrus
tuft, above them on the Plate, and, again, in the ' Room of the Throne' at
Knossos, cannot be called in question.
But the striated leaves themselves are not Egyptian. They are derived This
from a rendering of palm-leaves that already appears in the polychrome foliage'
designs of M. M. 11 a vases.2 They are taken over, somewhat later, as a f^fm
conventional decoration of the plant-forms of composite character (Fig. 963) tion from
that were found, modelled in Knossian faience, in the ' Temple Repositories', £j™'_
From part of a large painted pot in the Ashmolean Museum.
E.g. on the early 'Ostrich-egg rhytpn', P. of M., i, Fig. 436 C, opp. p. 594.
3 U -
- Fig. 963. Faience Spray with Lily-Like Flower
and Striated Foliage, suggested by Palm Leaves :
Temple Repository, Knossos.