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characteristic feature of the embossed work of Mycenae, and recur on
the bone plates from the tholos tombs of Kakovatos or ' Old Pylos'
(Fig. 106, e)} At times, too, we have a fourfold grouping resulting in curving
forms of swastika or fylfot (Fig. 107). Both this and the 'triquetra' may
be described as resting-points in ornamental evolution, which might, no doubt,

d e f g

Fig. 106. Triquetral Designs on Minoan Seals, a, b, c, f, and Mycenaean Disks, d, e,g.

a b

Fig. 107. Swastika or Fylfot on Mycenae Disks.

be reached by more than one path. In this case they take shape before our
eyes on the Early Minoan seals by a symmetrical application of S-scrolls, and
the marks of this origin persist to the Late Minoan Age.

But the ' triquetra', at least, has a much longer history in another field.
There is cogent evidence of the survival in the old Illyrian lands East of the
Upper Adriatic of certain Late Minoan or Mycenaean elements ultimately

1 Kurt Miiller, Alt-Pylos (Ath. Mitth., xxxiv, 1909), p. 283, Fig. 5.