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32 THE ITALIAN EXCAVATIONS
hanging curls is playing on a double flute. On a third
side is a two-wheeled chariot, drawn by a pair of horses,
and one of the two white-fleshed " deep-bosomed "
women that ride in it holds, like Nausicaa in the Odyssey,1
the four red reins.
The religious dress of the men of Minoan times was
much more complicated, it here appears,8 than the
embroidered loin-cloth that we find them wearing at
war or the chase, or in the ordinary routine of daily
life. One of the men on our sarcophagus, striking with
a bow the many strings of a gold lyre, wears a long
robe that reaches right down to the feet, strangely
like that of the women of classical Greece, while from
his shoulders flutters a veil or mantilla. The same
veil is worn by a richly dressed woman who walks in
procession with him, while on her hair there are red
flowers.
No less remarkable than this sarcophagus are three
vases of black steatite or soapstone, two of which, by
the great kindness of Dr. Halbherr, are here reproduced
for the first time in England. Admirable as they are
from an artistic point of view in their present condition,
they must have been still more magnificent when coated
with gold-leaf. Mr. Evans's suggestion that this was
originally the case, made on purely a priori grounds,
has been confirmed by the discovery at Palaikastro 5 of
a similar steatite vase with a particle of gold-leaf still
adhering to it. The zone decoration that is character-
istic of these vases must have been begun in bronze
technique, the vessel being formed of metal bands riveted
together. The tradition of this kind of bronze vessel
built up of decorated zones, one above the other, found
1 vi. 81-2.
J See .also B.S.A. vii. p. 20. Hall (O.C.G. 1901, p. 278) makes
a similar remark, justified, it may be noticed, by results, though
at the time only based on " Late Myccmcan " vases from Cyprus.
3 By Currelly, J.H.S. xxiv. p. 320.
hanging curls is playing on a double flute. On a third
side is a two-wheeled chariot, drawn by a pair of horses,
and one of the two white-fleshed " deep-bosomed "
women that ride in it holds, like Nausicaa in the Odyssey,1
the four red reins.
The religious dress of the men of Minoan times was
much more complicated, it here appears,8 than the
embroidered loin-cloth that we find them wearing at
war or the chase, or in the ordinary routine of daily
life. One of the men on our sarcophagus, striking with
a bow the many strings of a gold lyre, wears a long
robe that reaches right down to the feet, strangely
like that of the women of classical Greece, while from
his shoulders flutters a veil or mantilla. The same
veil is worn by a richly dressed woman who walks in
procession with him, while on her hair there are red
flowers.
No less remarkable than this sarcophagus are three
vases of black steatite or soapstone, two of which, by
the great kindness of Dr. Halbherr, are here reproduced
for the first time in England. Admirable as they are
from an artistic point of view in their present condition,
they must have been still more magnificent when coated
with gold-leaf. Mr. Evans's suggestion that this was
originally the case, made on purely a priori grounds,
has been confirmed by the discovery at Palaikastro 5 of
a similar steatite vase with a particle of gold-leaf still
adhering to it. The zone decoration that is character-
istic of these vases must have been begun in bronze
technique, the vessel being formed of metal bands riveted
together. The tradition of this kind of bronze vessel
built up of decorated zones, one above the other, found
1 vi. 81-2.
J See .also B.S.A. vii. p. 20. Hall (O.C.G. 1901, p. 278) makes
a similar remark, justified, it may be noticed, by results, though
at the time only based on " Late Myccmcan " vases from Cyprus.
3 By Currelly, J.H.S. xxiv. p. 320.