. The palace of Minos : a comparative account of the successive stages of the early Cretan civilization as illustrated by the discoveries at Knossos . I--4- INCISED AND PUNCTUATED WAREWITH WHITE FILLINS, , >,, .: 5-6 POLYCHROME IMITATIONS[ ] Fig. 125. Incised and Inlaid Geometrical Patterns compared withEarly Polychrome (-J- c). with its geometrically arranged red and white foliage, and Fig. 123,(5, representing the base of a fruit stand, a common type of this Period. In a sense, as we have seen, polychrome decoration goes back in Crete to the days of the punctuated and incised Neolit
. The palace of Minos : a comparative account of the successive stages of the early Cretan civilization as illustrated by the discoveries at Knossos . I--4- INCISED AND PUNCTUATED WAREWITH WHITE FILLINS, , >,, .: 5-6 POLYCHROME IMITATIONS[ ] Fig. 125. Incised and Inlaid Geometrical Patterns compared withEarly Polychrome (-J- c). with its geometrically arranged red and white foliage, and Fig. 123,(5, representing the base of a fruit stand, a common type of this Period. In a sense, as we have seen, polychrome decoration goes back in Crete to the days of the punctuated and incised Neolithic ware, the inlaying material of which was occasionally, though rarely, a ferruginous red as well as a chalky white. As has been shown above, this inlaid decoration had died out before the beginning of the Early Minoan Age, and the. : CERAMIC PHASES 177 objects of this class, such as the pyxis lid, Fig. 118^, 3, above, and thefurther specimens from the Vat Room Deposit, Fig. 125, 2 and 3, seem tohave been due to influences coming from other Aegean regions where theolder style had survived. It is nevertheless a signi- influence ficant fact that on some of the q^^^ examples of the polychrome style metric. Patterns in vase painting, which must, the typological point of ^^^^[^^view at least, be regarded as in the series, it is asso-ciated with the chevrons, punctu-ated vandyking, and chequer- FiG. 126. Birds Nest Type OF Breccia : patterns representing the oldM. M. I (MocHLOs) (ia). ,. , . / .. ° ,-p,. ^ ^ vii/ Neolithic tradition. 1 his is clearly brought out in Fig. 125 where No. i represents the pure Neohthic style and 2 and 3 specimens from the Vat Room Deposit of early M. M. I date, while Nos. 5 to 9 ^ are fragments of M. M. I vessels with similar designs in bright red, orange, an
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