. The palace of Minos : a comparative account of the successive stages of the early Cretan civilization as illustrated by the discoveries at Knossos . worked up in the same way as See above, p. 177, and Figs. 126, 127 a. Dr. Einar Lexow, Bergens MuseumsAarbok, 1918-19, pp. 1-14, Figs. 6, 7, hascalled attention to the close comparisonpresented between the antlered veining ofa similar cup and the characteristic hornedcurvilinear patterns that appear in the shapeof graffiti on pottery or of the raised ornamentsof friezes in the prehistoric sanctuaries of theMaltese Islands. These -comparisons, as
. The palace of Minos : a comparative account of the successive stages of the early Cretan civilization as illustrated by the discoveries at Knossos . worked up in the same way as See above, p. 177, and Figs. 126, 127 a. Dr. Einar Lexow, Bergens MuseumsAarbok, 1918-19, pp. 1-14, Figs. 6, 7, hascalled attention to the close comparisonpresented between the antlered veining ofa similar cup and the characteristic hornedcurvilinear patterns that appear in the shapeof graffiti on pottery or of the raised ornamentsof friezes in the prehistoric sanctuaries of theMaltese Islands. These -comparisons, as I have shown on pp. 261-3, above, find a stillwider field in. the decorative repertory of Creteduring the culminating phase of .M. M. II. Thestage with which they are associated at HalTarxien and elsewhere is, as Dr. Zamrait hasshown, the latest Neolithic of the there are good reasons for bringing downits date to an epoch compatible with M. M. 11influence. Ill: SURVIVALS OF CERAMIC POLYCHROMY 603 parts of the rock-work surface of the large flat-bottomed dish with marinereliefs, a part of which is illustrated in Fig. 381 Fig. 443. Jars with White Lilies from Magazine of Lily Vases (^.:.). The influence on vases of the naturalistic style of wall-painting now invogue attains its maximum during the closing M. M. Ill phase. So faras plant designs are concerned, the beginnings of this influence have been 6o4 THE PALACE OF MINOS, ETC. Influenceof Natu-ralisticWall-paintingon The LilyJars. already illustrated among the latest works of M. M. II by the close analogy that the flowers on the polychrome bowl, Fig. 197 above,^ pre-sent to those of the Saffron Gatherer. Another poly-chrome jug of the same date shows a lily spray,^ which may also have been ex-cerpted from some, parallel composition on the Palace walls. The monochrome successors of such floral subjects that. now appear make up for the deficiency of colouring by greater picturesqueness of treatm
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