WALL AROUND CASE B. Spiral Fresco

Accession Number GB/1648/AJE/4/1/14/1/4
Artist John Percival Droop
Year early 20th century
Dimensions 41 x 53 cm
Medium painting
Location Ashmolean Museum
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Painting of the Spiral Fresco by John Percival Droop. There are a number of spiral borders of this kind in the East Wing of the palace but this gave its name to the ‘Area of the Spiral Fresco’.

Bibliography

Evans, Arthur. 1921. The Palace of Minos at Knossos, I, pp. 371-372, fig. 269

Myres, John (ed.). 1936. British Archaeological Discoveries in Greece and Crete 1886-1936, p. 20