218 SOUTH-EAST POLYCHROME DEPOSIT AT KNOSSOS

In the ceramic versions there is to be noted a phenomenon exactly
parallel to that which has been already pointed out in the case of certain
outgrowths of the 'quadruple spiral' pattern, where the disks on which the
curvilinear framework depended have become detached from it. On the
vases the ' bat '-like excrescences now spring from spiral coils, but the
original disks survive in the field.
They are, indeed, placed beside
the latticed loops as if there were
in truth some playful allusion to
bat and ball.

The ceramic history, indeed, of

Deriva-

tan°ential tn's Pattera can be- traced to a still

loops at
Mycenae.

Fig. 123. a, Steatite Lentoid, Crete ;
b, Embossed Gold. Medallion of Diadem,
Vth Shaft Grave, Mycenae.

Egg-shell
bowls
from S.E.
deposit.

later date. The disks with triple

tangential loops, as they occur on

vases of M. M. Ill fabric, have

already been illustrated in the

first volume of this work,1 and

a specimen is reproduced in Fig. 125, below. The 'racquet' itself, with its

cross-hatching, is also seen on L. M. I cups from Crete and Mycenae.

In the earlier house remains beneath the M. M. Ill 'House of the
Fallen Blocks', contemporary with and immediately East of those containing
the deposit described above, there came to light fragments of vases of egg-
shell ware, corresponding with those of the ' Royal Pottery Stores' described
in the first volume of this work and representing the first phase, a, of the
M. M. 11 polychrome style.2 The upper part of a bowl, here reproduced
in Fig. 124, and repeated in the Coloured Plate IX, shows within it a bizarre
motive seemingly derived from some primitive textile rendering of an
animal or bird. This vessel also displays on its outer rim a singular design
suggestive of white lace-work with red loop attachments. The tradition of
this delicate texture in vase decoration survived to a much later period
and again becomes fashionable in the closing phase of M. M. III. An
illustration already taken from a jug found at Zakro is here reproduced,3
where again the ornament certainly conveys the impression of lace rather
than of ordinary embroidery (Fig. 125). This vase at the same time affords
a good later parallel for the triple coil and ' tennis racquet' patterns illustrated

1 P. of M., i, p. 6n, Fig. 449, a, b. Com- s See P. of M, i, p. 6n, Fig. 449, b (from
pare, too, the ' bladder' and spiral, p. 6io, R. M. Dawkins, Pottery from Zakro (J. H. S.,
Fig. 448. xxiii, p. 253, Fig. 18).

2 //'., p. 240 seqq.