. The palace of Minos : a comparative account of the successive stages of the early Cretan civilization as illustrated by the discoveries at Knossos . , not by asignet pressed askew on thedamp clay, but rather by abroken seal-stone. There can be little hesitationin recognizing in the panelledpattern, of which we have herea fragment, a variant of a classof designs very frequent onCretan seals of this and the pre-ceding period, and which in factare conventionalized represen-tations of architectural ,t, 1,2, a crystal intaglio of the flat-edged type, which had its greatestvogue
. The palace of Minos : a comparative account of the successive stages of the early Cretan civilization as illustrated by the discoveries at Knossos . , not by asignet pressed askew on thedamp clay, but rather by abroken seal-stone. There can be little hesitationin recognizing in the panelledpattern, of which we have herea fragment, a variant of a classof designs very frequent onCretan seals of this and the pre-ceding period, and which in factare conventionalized represen-tations of architectural ,t, 1,2, a crystal intaglio of the flat-edged type, which had its greatestvogue in 11,^ from the Knossos district, and in the red jasper lentoid,^,we see complete designs of the same class, and the fragmentary sealings fromthe W. Temple Repository, a and d, must be assigned to a similar of the circular inscribed clay disks from the same deposit was impressedround its margin by a similar signet. These conventional representations of the fronts of buildings belongto an early tradition which continued to run parallel with the morerealistic architectural subjects such as the castellated structure on the Zakro. Fig. 410. Pithos with Impressions of BrokenSignet. -This specimen was found in the Xth (from a drawing by Mr. H. Bagge).Those of the Royal Magazines were not soperfectly preserved. ^ It goes back as early as the M. M. I poly- chrome vases with fish decoration (see Vasilik), Fenn. Trans., vol. ii, Pt. 2,PI. XXX, b, and above, pp. i8o, 182). See above, pp. 274, 275, Fig. 204, a, b, c, d Ill: THE PALACE POTTERY STORES 565 sealing, reproduced above.^ In the present case a parallel example isseen on the contemporary seal impression, just referred to, from theW. Temple Repository, Fig. 411,«, where squares of masonry are shownon one side, and on the other the upper part of a doorway—a feature verycharacteristic of these designs. The potters seal had no doubt broken inthe course of signing a long series of similar
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