Part of a Kneeling Figure after a Late Minoan Fresco from the Palace of Hagia Triada, Crete c. early 20th century

Editor: This is Emile Gilliéron's "Part of a Kneeling Figure after a Late Minoan Fresco from the Palace of Hagia Triada, Crete." It’s quite fragmented. What symbolic weight do you see in these surviving images? Curator: The lilies, for instance, are potent symbols. In Minoan culture, they suggested renewal, perhaps even ritual purification. How do you think the act of kneeling might deepen that meaning? Editor: Maybe it implies reverence or submission, amplifying the sense of purification and rebirth? Curator: Precisely. And that scale pattern above, hinting at water, further links the figure to ideas of cleansing and transformation. I am starting to see this work in a new light. Editor: Absolutely, I agree. It’s amazing how these fragments still carry so much symbolic power.