The palace of Minos :
a comparative account of the successive stages of the early Cretan civilization as illustrated by the discoveries at Knossos /
by Sir Arthur Evans ...
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Macmillan and Co., limited,
1921-35.
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Notes: | Supplemented by : Index to The palace of Minos, by Joan Evans ... with special sections classified in detail and chronologically arranged by Sir Arthur Evans. (vi, 221, [1] p. ; 26 cm.) published : London : Macmillan and Co., limited, 1936. Call number : DF221.C8 E75 Index. --vol. IV. pt. I. Emergence of outer western enceinte, with new illustrations, artistic and religious, of the middle Minoan phase: chryselephantine 'lady of sports,' 'snake room' and full story of the cult: late Minoan ceramic evolution and 'palace style.' pt. II. 'Camp-stool' fresco--long-robed priests and beneficient genii; chryselephantine boy-god and ritual hair-offering; intaglio types, M.M. III-L.M. II; late hoards of sealings; deposits of inscribed tablets and the palace stores; linear script B and its mainland extension; closing palatial phase--'room of throne'--and final catastrophe with epilogue on the discovery of 'ring of Minos' and 'temple tomb.'. --vol. IV. pt. I. Emergence of outer western enceinte, with new illustrations, artistic and religious, of the middle Minoan phase: chryselephantine 'lady of sports,' 'snake room' and full story of the cult: late Minoan ceramic evolution and 'palace style.' pt. II. 'Camp-stool' fresco--long-robed priests and beneficient genii; chryselephantine boy-god and ritual hair-offering; intaglio types, M.M. III-L.M. II; late hoards of sealings; deposits of inscribed tablets and the palace stores; linear script B and its mainland extension; closing palatial phase--'room of throne'--and final catastrophe with epilogue on the discovery of 'ring of Minos' and 'temple tomb.' Physical description: 4 v. in 6. : col. ill., ill. (part. col., part fold.), ill. (part fold.) plans (part fold.), port. ; 26 cm. more |