| Scope and Content |
A repeating pattern with swirls and flowers, in red, white, yellow, and shades of blue. Framed. The original description in the catalogue reads: "17-18 Wall paintings from houses of Middle Cycladic date: These are not strictly fresco, but were painted on thin limewash, sometimes obliterating earlier decorations. A jar from settlement contained the crimson pigment, a mixed silicate and oxide of iron; other colours are blue, yellow, white, and a faded red, with black for outlines. The designs are in Cretan style: but compare the naturalistic decoration of the pottery (2-6, 8a above). 17 Design of Spiral and Rosettes, reconstructed by T. D. Atkinson: compare spiral fresco designs from Knossos in the Minoan Room" |
