'SACRAL IVY' AND 'OGIVAL CANOPY'

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L M. II ' Palace Style', though the 'ivy-leaf is now of less common occur- Survival
rence; except in the shape of small decorative appendages to the margin of crai i'vy'
papyrus tufts.1

Fig. 258. Fragment of ' Amphora ', Fig. 243.

Fig. 259. Bronze Signet-
ring FROM NEAR KNOSSOS.

Both motives, however, occur in simple forms on the fragment, Fig.
258, of an 'amphora', the principal subject of which, as seen in Fig. 243
above, is a symmetrically displayed octopus. Here the ' canopy' covers a lily
flower of many stamens, while an ' ivy-leaf with cross-hatching is seen above.2
A bronze signet-ring of an exceptional class, Fig. 259, from the neighbour-
hood of Knossos,3 probably belonging to this epoch, shows a conventional
lily with four stamens in conjunction with the canopied 'waz' symbol.

A good specimen of a ' Palace Style' 'amphora' from the North-West
border contains in its principal band a series of designs in which this sacred
papyrus wand is combined with the ' ogival canopy', within the terminal coils
of which are reserved rosettes (Fig. 260). The figures above, resembling
half Double-Axe blades4—in the upper row with intervening papyrus tufts—
are specially noteworthy when it is borne in mind that single axes with
recurved ends were now coming into use under Cypriot and Syrian
influences.-1 In Fig. 292 (p. 349) below, the idea of the axe embedded in
the sacred pillar is still traceable.

A somewhat fuller decorative development of a similar ' ivaz' canopy

E. g: p. 324, Fig. 264, g. of single-bladed axes with intervening papyrus

1 tie upper border of this is restored in sprays on the shoulder compare Fig. 282,

^'•g. 258. p. 340, with a spiral and rosette band.

In my Collection. 5 See below, p. 414 seqq.

' See. too, p. 320, Fig. 261. For the band

1 Ogival
Canopy'
on Palace
Style