. The palace of Minos : a comparative account of the successive stages of the early Cretan civilization as illustrated by the discoveries at Knossos . doorway, but,with a gable above, curiously suggestive of a Greek temple pediment. In Fig. 493, b and c on the other hand, of amygdaloid shape, the gable surmounts a columnar front. Of these c from the Pedeada district^ East of Knossos, showing four columns, is engraved on a three-sided amuletic stone of the kind referred to above. The three-columned type presented by b also recurs on one of the Sphungaras seal-stones.^ It seems possible that som
. The palace of Minos : a comparative account of the successive stages of the early Cretan civilization as illustrated by the discoveries at Knossos . doorway, but,with a gable above, curiously suggestive of a Greek temple pediment. In Fig. 493, b and c on the other hand, of amygdaloid shape, the gable surmounts a columnar front. Of these c from the Pedeada district^ East of Knossos, showing four columns, is engraved on a three-sided amuletic stone of the kind referred to above. The three-columned type presented by b also recurs on one of the Sphungaras seal-stones.^ It seems possible that some of these apparently gabled buildings were of circular construction with peaked roofs and would thus represent a form of round hut with posts under its eaves, such as that which in Ancient Rome supplied the prototype of the Temple of Vesta. A remarkable variety See p. 565, Fig. 411. three-sided bead-seal with a high-spouted ewer ^ In the Candia Museum, bought at the and a two-handled chalice on the two other village of Geraki. See Xanthudides,Ei/).Ap^-, sides. 1907, PI. VII, Fig. 47(3;, and p. 168, on a ^ E. H. Hall, op. cit., p. 70, Fig 45, Fig. 494. Rustic Shrine, (f) M. M. Ill: SEAL TYPES AND GREATER ART 675 reproduced in Fig. 494,* though it only shows a pillar on either side, is so cutby the engravers wheel as to present a rounded contour. ^ - certainlyseems to be intended for serpents appear on either side. ^ deed as if we had to do with a rustic shrine of the Snake Goddess. Among the forms of intaglio represented at Sphungaras, ii addition to intagliosthe lentoid and amygdaloid types, is that which has been described above as tened Cy-the flattened cylinder, which seems to have played a specially prominent i^^^part in the Third Middle Minoan Period. A very fine example of this type,showing a bull grappled by an acrobatic figure of a man, while drinking froma high tank, has been already illustrated,^ and the correspondence betweenthe decorative pattern there shown and
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