. The palace of Minos : a comparative account of the successive stages of the early Cretan civilization as illustrated by the discoveries at Knossos . definite place in the ceramic series of the Palace. These stately jars, only found at Knossos and well worthy of their placein the Royal Magazines, are in many respects divergent from the EarlyPalace Class ofknobbed pithoi.^ • Had we not even the evidence of thesuccessive strata that intervene between the floor on which these later pithoirested and the latest pavement of M. M. II, we should be compelled to inferthat a very considerable period of
. The palace of Minos : a comparative account of the successive stages of the early Cretan civilization as illustrated by the discoveries at Knossos . definite place in the ceramic series of the Palace. These stately jars, only found at Knossos and well worthy of their placein the Royal Magazines, are in many respects divergent from the EarlyPalace Class ofknobbed pithoi.^ • Had we not even the evidence of thesuccessive strata that intervene between the floor on which these later pithoirested and the latest pavement of M. M. II, we should be compelled to inferthat a very considerable period of time had elapsed between the two form is more graceful and elongated and in most typical examplesshows, in place of the ropework pattern, flat strips with a succession ofimpressed rings. But the most interesting development with which weare confronted is the transmutation of the low bosses, which replace theknobs on some of the M. M. II jars, into slightly convex medallionspresenting rosettes, laid on in a chalky white medium on the lilac brown glaze. See above, p. 320, Fig. 233 and Fig. 234. ^ See above, p. 232, Figs. 174, 409. MEDALLION PiTHOS OF M. M. Ill ^; Knossos. (Height 1-43 m.) 002 564 THE PALACE OF MINOS, ETC. Pithoswith Signet Im-pressions, ground and surrounded with raised rings. A good illustration of a Medal-lion pithos of this type is given in Fig. 4:09.^ The small raised disks,slightly cupped, of the upper zone are also very characteristic, while the wavedblack and white decoration of the rim, also frequent on vases of this Period,is an inheritance from the earlier Middle Minoan polychrome tradition. In the Magazine of the Medallion pithoi were also found remainsof a variant type of store jar showing diminutive impressed rings, within which, in place of the painted A\\N\ V\V^\|, V\ ^ \\ ==^. .*= P ^*; ? -^ ^ >__««_ \j vv> jjqj^ pithoi appear a series of seal impressions. As will beseen from Fig. 410 these repro-duce the same out
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