The palace of Minos - a comparative account of the successive stages of the early Cretan civilization as illustrated by the discoveries at Knossos (1921) (14587096887)

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Title: The palace of Minos : a comparative account of the successive stages of the early Cretan civilization as illustrated by the discoveries at Knossos
Year: 1921 (1920s)
Authors: Evans, Arthur, Sir, 1851-1941 Evans, Joan, 1893-1977
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Publisher: London : Macmillan and Co.
Contributing Library: Cornell University Library
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editerraneanBasin of which two illustrative specimens are given in my work on Tree andPillar Cult. One of these is a comparatively rough pillar from a Nau ofMinorca,.* The other, of more advanced shage, is from a cell of Hagiar Kimin Malta, one of a series of monuments belonging to the close of the localNeolithic age, the spiraliform decoration of which, however, both in itscharacter and in its application to friezes and ceilings, presents such re-markable analogies with the Minoan.^ The same tapering formation of the column is repeated in the case ofa small ivory column from the Spata tomb.^ and that of the ivory frieze As there is an element of doubt in thematter, the columns in Mr. Dolls elevationhave been shown in each case with equaldiameters throughout. ^ See p. 443, Fig. 319, below. See Vol. II. * Cartailhac, Monuments primitifs des liesBaleares, PI. 46; Myc. Tree and Pillar Cult,p. 89, Fig. 61. See above, p. 22 and p. 261. Bulletin de correspondance helMnique, 1878,PL XIII, 8.
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o u o H U H n «:as o Q PiOHen o o i-I w H MP of°Kno-and the half columns of the faQade of the Treasury of Atreus must be re- s^.moved from the category of those which dwindle gradually towards their base, and H. ot But the consistent evidence of the contemporary copies in wall-painting, DoubleAxes, supported by later survivals in sculpture and intaglio, is surely sufficientto demonstrate that this downward taper was a characteristic feature ofshafts in the M. M. Ill Palace. So far as could be judged by the carbonizedremains themselves, a column of the Hall of the Double Axes, of which 2-60metres out of a total length of about 3 m

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