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THE PALACE OF MINOS, ETC.
Conven-
tional
facades of
buildings.
Later
class with
pillars
and
gables.
Rustic
shrines.
great strength-giving virtue : in an identical form it was very widely diffused
throughout Crete.
In the case of these amuletic seal-stones a tendency may be observed
to substitute, as in the instance given, an almond-shape for the lentoid form,
which seems to have been the more usual Middle Minoan vehicle for the types
they bear. This transition can be traced in the lion's' mask series, and
a characteristic example of it occurs in the case of certain types which stand
in a near relation to the M. M. IT—III specimens representing architectural
facades illustrated above.1 An interesting variant of this motive from the
Knossos district is here shown in Fig. 493, from a green steatite lentoid of
a b c
Fig. 493. Seal-Stones with Facades of Gabled Buildings, M. M. III-L. M. I (f).
the early round shape with square-cut edges, traditional in this architectural
class. Here we see the usual panelled front and central 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 district2 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.3
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
1 See p. 565, Fig. 411. three-sided bead-seal with a high-spouted ewer
2 In the Candia Museum, bought at the and a two-handled chalice on the two other
village of Geraki. See Xanthudides; 'E<f>. 'Apx-, sides.
1907, PI. VII, Fig. 47 a, and p. 168, on a 3 E. H. Hall, op. cit., p. 70, Fig 45, g.
Fig. 494. Rustic Shrine, (f)
THE PALACE OF MINOS, ETC.
Conven-
tional
facades of
buildings.
Later
class with
pillars
and
gables.
Rustic
shrines.
great strength-giving virtue : in an identical form it was very widely diffused
throughout Crete.
In the case of these amuletic seal-stones a tendency may be observed
to substitute, as in the instance given, an almond-shape for the lentoid form,
which seems to have been the more usual Middle Minoan vehicle for the types
they bear. This transition can be traced in the lion's' mask series, and
a characteristic example of it occurs in the case of certain types which stand
in a near relation to the M. M. IT—III specimens representing architectural
facades illustrated above.1 An interesting variant of this motive from the
Knossos district is here shown in Fig. 493, from a green steatite lentoid of
a b c
Fig. 493. Seal-Stones with Facades of Gabled Buildings, M. M. III-L. M. I (f).
the early round shape with square-cut edges, traditional in this architectural
class. Here we see the usual panelled front and central 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 district2 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.3
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
1 See p. 565, Fig. 411. three-sided bead-seal with a high-spouted ewer
2 In the Candia Museum, bought at the and a two-handled chalice on the two other
village of Geraki. See Xanthudides; 'E<f>. 'Apx-, sides.
1907, PI. VII, Fig. 47 a, and p. 168, on a 3 E. H. Hall, op. cit., p. 70, Fig 45, g.
Fig. 494. Rustic Shrine, (f)