. The palace of Minos : a comparative account of the successive stages of the early Cretan civilization as illustrated by the discoveries at Knossos . leaves of a more bramble-likecharacter. That the cat and pheasant fresco of Hagia Triada had its analogy at For a coloured illustration see Knossian ^ For the bird compare also a fragment Atlas i, PI. D. I. of a fresco from Phylakopi {Phylakopi, p. 77, Halbherr, Mon. Ant., xiii, PI. VIII and Fig. 65). p. 58 j compare Rizzo, Storia delV Arte Greca, * See p. 356, Fig. 255. p. loi, Fig. 34. ° ^H. Ant., xiii, p. 57. 540 THE PALACE OF MINOS, ETC. Kno
. The palace of Minos : a comparative account of the successive stages of the early Cretan civilization as illustrated by the discoveries at Knossos . leaves of a more bramble-likecharacter. That the cat and pheasant fresco of Hagia Triada had its analogy at For a coloured illustration see Knossian ^ For the bird compare also a fragment Atlas i, PI. D. I. of a fresco from Phylakopi {Phylakopi, p. 77, Halbherr, Mon. Ant., xiii, PI. VIII and Fig. 65). p. 58 j compare Rizzo, Storia delV Arte Greca, * See p. 356, Fig. 255. p. loi, Fig. 34. ° ^H. Ant., xiii, p. 57. 540 THE PALACE OF MINOS, ETC. Knossian Knossos is shown by two painted stucco fragments found closely juxtaposedCa?and° ^^ °^ °^ *^^ heaps on the North border of the Palace. One of thesePheasant (Fig. 392 b) gives the upper part of the head of a cat, though of a different^ type from the animal of the Hagia Triada design (inset). The ears are more rounded, the yellow ground of the side of the face is covered withwhite spots, and the pupil of the eye is blue. For some of these details the Fresco. KEY TO COLOURS of B RED YELLOW^ :J5| BLUE ^•??? &LUE. BLACK. Fig. 392. a, b. Fresco Fragments showing parts of Bird and Cats Head,Knossos ; Head of Cat, Hagia Triada (inset). artist may have drawn on his fancy, at the same time the white patch roundthe eye is a feature characteristic of the wild-cat, a common Cretan species.^The other fragment (Fig. 392 a) displays a section of the tail and outspreadwings of a bird of brilliant plumage. The tail feathers indicate an elongatedform and seem to have been banded with dark stripes, but their colours arenot as well preserved as those of the wings. These show an outer row of red- Miss Dorothea Bate remarks, a wild cat from Sardinia {The Mammals of Crete, in{Felis agrius) is not uncommon in the island, Aubyn Trevor-Battye, Camping in Creteand seems to resemble most closely specimens (1913), p. 255). Ill: MINOAN FRESCO: WALL PAINTINGS, ETC. 541 tipped orange plume
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