. The palace of Minos : a comparative account of the successive stages of the early Cretan civilization as illustrated by the discoveries at Knossos . in the shape of isolated reliefs with flatbacks, and it is clear that they must have been applied to some kind ofplaster backing. They doubtless belonged to a series of picturesque panels 522 THE PALACE OF MINOS, ETC. Fish Frescoes of Phyla- kopi and Knossos. analogous to those exhibiting the animal groups. A group of these withtwo flying fish in the centre had been tentatively put together in Fig. 379,the argonauts in the round being here place
. The palace of Minos : a comparative account of the successive stages of the early Cretan civilization as illustrated by the discoveries at Knossos . in the shape of isolated reliefs with flatbacks, and it is clear that they must have been applied to some kind ofplaster backing. They doubtless belonged to a series of picturesque panels 522 THE PALACE OF MINOS, ETC. Fish Frescoes of Phyla- kopi and Knossos. analogous to those exhibiting the animal groups. A group of these withtwo flying fish in the centre had been tentatively put together in Fig. 379,the argonauts in the round being here placed with the other objects. Theramifying border seems to represent some kind of coralline or otherzoophytic growth. Sea pieces like the above at once suggest striking parallels with twoMinoan wall-paintings—the flying-fish panel of Phylakopi ^ and the dolphinfresco found in the Queens Megaron at Knossos, described below.^ Acontemporary parallel to the reliefs of marine objects in faience is moreoverafforded by some interesting, though as yet unpublished, ceramic remainsof this Period. Isolated reliefs of whorl shells or cockles have been found. Fig. 381. Fragment of Side of Clay Basin with Triton Shell in Relief (|). on vase fragments, some of them showing the dark black glaze of M. M. IItradition. The most striking comparison, however, is supplied by a seriesof moulded pieces in terra-cotta, which seem to have formed part ofa large marinepiece found in the circular walled rubbish pit of the WestCourt in company with heaps of characteristic M. M. Ill sherds. On theseappear pectens, tritons, or, perhaps, purple shells, limpets and barnacleson a rock-like surface, and small crabs of singularly natural appearance(Fig. 380). Indeed, when the first fragments came to light it was hard tobelieve that one had not to do with fossil shells and Crustacea resembling?those of our Coralline Crag! It seems clear that the moulds for someof these reliefs were formed on the natural objects thems
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