. The palace of Minos : a comparative account of the successive stages of the early Cretan civilization as illustrated by the discoveries at Knossos . EGYPTIAN SCARABS XIIth DYNAST/. EARLY CRETAN SEAL-STONES tiG. 150. Egyptian Scarab-types compared with those of Minoan Seals. of painted plaster, illustrated below, which supplies an unique record of theoriginal fresco decoration of the M. M. II Palace. A clay sealing (Fig. 151),^ presenting two impressions of what wasapparently an ivory signet, found, in a M. M. I association, of the roomof the Stone Drain-head ^ at Knossos, clearly stands
. The palace of Minos : a comparative account of the successive stages of the early Cretan civilization as illustrated by the discoveries at Knossos . EGYPTIAN SCARABS XIIth DYNAST/. EARLY CRETAN SEAL-STONES tiG. 150. Egyptian Scarab-types compared with those of Minoan Seals. of painted plaster, illustrated below, which supplies an unique record of theoriginal fresco decoration of the M. M. II Palace. A clay sealing (Fig. 151),^ presenting two impressions of what wasapparently an ivory signet, found, in a M. M. I association, of the roomof the Stone Drain-head ^ at Knossos, clearly stands in connexion withsimilar ceiling designs going back to the earliest Period of the Palace. Thediagonally connected double coils here seen with their cruciform flowers andterminal palmettes of Egyptian character ° are enclosed in a border of See below, p. 705, Fig. 528.^ See Coloured Plate I, k, p. 231. See XaoKnossos,Report, 1903, p. 23, Pig, known as the Room of theOlive Press. ^ This motive already occurs on the E. ivory seals, p. 118, Fig. 87, 5 above,and may be an adaptation of the Egyptian tree sign, which was also used as a decorativemotive. 202
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