Hall, Edith H.: The decorative art of Crete in the Bronze Age (Philadelphia, Pa., 1906)

EDITH H. HALL—DECORATIVE ART OF CRETE IN THE BRONZE AGE.

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Finally, among the conventionalized naturalistic designs of this period
should be mentioned the "rock-work" pattern which is used both to indicate
the surface of ground, as in Prehistoric Tombs, p. 91, Fig. 102, and to fill in
space, as in Mon. Ant. 1905, etc. In the latter case it receives the same
cross-lined, geometric style of treatment as that which flowers of this period
undergo.
Of the non-imitative designs with which we have become familiar only a
few simple motives remain in use. These are the spiral, the checkerboard
pattern (Mon. Ant. 1905, XIV, Part 2, PI. XXXVII), and the quirk. The
linked spiral design in Prehistoric Tombs, p. 91, Fig. 102a, is evidently, as Mr.
Evans has pointed out (ibid. p. 90), an adaptation of designs on contemporary
Egyptian chests and ceilings.
Among the important objects belonging to this Late Minoan III period are
numbers of small gold and paste ornaments closely analogous to those which
have been found at Spata, Dimini, Ialysos, and Mycenae (see table, opp.
p. 50). These finds come mainly from the Zafer Papoura graves near
Knossos and from the necropolis at Phaistos. The motives chiefly used for
their decoration are the_ following:: a nair of nautili similar to those which
to fill a rectangular area (Mon. And
Prehistoric Tombs, p. 130, Fig. 119);
601, Fig. 66); flowers (ibid. col. 597,
p 85, and p. 130, Fig. 119); pairs of
Part 2, col. 599, Fig. 62); rosettes
ic Tombs, p. 130, Fig. 119); conven-
ed. 609, Fig. 78) ;* leaves of the ivy
Rents and triangular attachments to
col. 611, Fig. 80, and col. 614, Fig.
jt'd. col. 609, Fig. 78); an ornament
Arl (ibid. col. 614, Fig. 82); lobes of
and the sacred shield (Prehistoric
ts are exactly those with which we
le or two, the pendant curl and the
toire of patterns. The prevalence of
nd paste ornaments may have aided
mventional lily, the ivy leaf and the
:o careless workmanship as potters,
re designs of jewelry may have been


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