Ægean archæeology; an introduction to the archæeology of prehistoric Greece . there can equally be nodoubt. . Of stone reliefs we have not many. In the Cycladesin the Early Minoan period spiral-band designs hadalready appeared on carved vases, shaped as models ofstone houses (p. 48), before even they were painted onplaster probably. In later times the carved stone was atranslation from the fresco-painting; this we see in theOrchomenos ceilings. The intermediate form in stuccorelief existed commonly. And stone vases had reliefbands of stone ornament, as we see at Knossos. Thewell-known Myc
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Ægean archæeology; an introduction to the archæeology of prehistoric Greece . there can equally be nodoubt. _ ___. Of stone reliefs we have not many. In the Cycladesin the Early Minoan period spiral-band designs hadalready appeared on carved vases, shaped as models ofstone houses (p. 48), before even they were painted onplaster probably. In later times the carved stone was atranslation from the fresco-painting; this we see in theOrchomenos ceilings. The intermediate form in stuccorelief existed commonly. And stone vases had reliefbands of stone ornament, as we see at Knossos. Thewell-known Mycenaean triglyph design, with its twohalves of a deeply-cut elongated rosette divided in twoby parallel vertical bands, is found everywhere in stone;at Tiryns also in kyanos, or blue glass paste; a verit-able OpiyKos Kvavoio. The precise origin of this curiousand not very beautiful design is uncertain; it may bederived from wood-carving, but of Minoan wood-carv-ing we possess nothing to tell us whether or no therewas ever a Cretan Grinling Gibbons; no wood lasts ILAiE xxxr. /??-, ./// t!h !rpnui:ici:.^u ht thr IhUrJi J//, .i