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THE PALACE OF MINOS, ETC.
Pithos
with Sig-
net Im-
pressions.
ground and surrounded with raised ring's. A g;ood illustration of a ' Medal-
lion pithos ' of this type is given in Fig. 409.1 The small raised disks,
slightly cupped, of the upper zone are also very characteristic, while the waved
black and white decoration of the rim, also frequent on vases of this Period,
is an inheritance from the earlier Middle Minoan polychrome tradition.2
In the ' Magazine of the Medallion pithoi' were also found remains
of a variant type of store jar showing diminutive impressed rings, within
. which, in place of the painted
V^N^ V\ ^ \\ rosettes of the typical'Medal"
. ————— lion pithoi ' appear a series of
seal impressions. As will be
seen from Fig. 410 these repro-
duce the same outline, and are
evidently formed, not by a
signet pressed askew on the
clamp clay, but rather by a
broken seal-stone.
There can be little hesitation
in recognizing in the panelled
pattern, of which we have here
a fragment, a variant of a class
of designs very frequent on
Cretan seals of this and the pre-
ceding period, and which in fact
are conventionalized represen-
tations of architectural facades.
In Fig. 411, c, i, 2, a crystal intaglio of the flat-edged type, which had its greatest
vogue in M.M. II,3 from the Knossos district, and in the red jasper lentoid, d,
we see complete designs of the same class, and the fragmentary sealings from
the W. Temple Repository, a and 6, must be assigned to a similar category.
One of the circular inscribed clay disks from the same deposit was impressed
round its margin by a similar signet.
These conventional representations of the fronts of buildings belong
to an early tradition which continued to run parallel with the more
realistic architectural subjects such as the castellated structure on the Zakro
1 This specimen was found in the Xth W. chrome vases with fish decoration (see Excavs.
Magazine (from a drawing by Mr. H. Bagge). at Vasiliki, Penn. Trans., vol. ii, Pt. 2,
Those of the Royal Magazines were not so PI. XXX, b, and above, pp. 180, 182).
perfectly preserved. 3 See above, pp. 274, 275, Fig. 204, a, b, c, d
2 It goes back as early as the M. M. I poly-
nn i))U))))))) j)))))))) WW))))))])>»
Fig. 410.
Pithos with Impressions of Broken
Signet.
THE PALACE OF MINOS, ETC.
Pithos
with Sig-
net Im-
pressions.
ground and surrounded with raised ring's. A g;ood illustration of a ' Medal-
lion pithos ' of this type is given in Fig. 409.1 The small raised disks,
slightly cupped, of the upper zone are also very characteristic, while the waved
black and white decoration of the rim, also frequent on vases of this Period,
is an inheritance from the earlier Middle Minoan polychrome tradition.2
In the ' Magazine of the Medallion pithoi' were also found remains
of a variant type of store jar showing diminutive impressed rings, within
. which, in place of the painted
V^N^ V\ ^ \\ rosettes of the typical'Medal"
. ————— lion pithoi ' appear a series of
seal impressions. As will be
seen from Fig. 410 these repro-
duce the same outline, and are
evidently formed, not by a
signet pressed askew on the
clamp clay, but rather by a
broken seal-stone.
There can be little hesitation
in recognizing in the panelled
pattern, of which we have here
a fragment, a variant of a class
of designs very frequent on
Cretan seals of this and the pre-
ceding period, and which in fact
are conventionalized represen-
tations of architectural facades.
In Fig. 411, c, i, 2, a crystal intaglio of the flat-edged type, which had its greatest
vogue in M.M. II,3 from the Knossos district, and in the red jasper lentoid, d,
we see complete designs of the same class, and the fragmentary sealings from
the W. Temple Repository, a and 6, must be assigned to a similar category.
One of the circular inscribed clay disks from the same deposit was impressed
round its margin by a similar signet.
These conventional representations of the fronts of buildings belong
to an early tradition which continued to run parallel with the more
realistic architectural subjects such as the castellated structure on the Zakro
1 This specimen was found in the Xth W. chrome vases with fish decoration (see Excavs.
Magazine (from a drawing by Mr. H. Bagge). at Vasiliki, Penn. Trans., vol. ii, Pt. 2,
Those of the Royal Magazines were not so PI. XXX, b, and above, pp. 180, 182).
perfectly preserved. 3 See above, pp. 274, 275, Fig. 204, a, b, c, d
2 It goes back as early as the M. M. I poly-
nn i))U))))))) j)))))))) WW))))))])>»
Fig. 410.
Pithos with Impressions of Broken
Signet.