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THE DATE OF LATE MINOAN I. AND II. 93
of the two great periods that preceded it ? Though we
have no Egyptian equation that at first sight seems so
definite for Late Minoan L and II. as the Cartouche of
King Khyan for Middle Minoan DDL, the connections
that we can establish are happily not the subject of
such hot dispute. Though Late Minoan L may have
begun in the last days of the Hyksos domination, it is
unlikely that it ended till the XVIIIth Dynasty had
already well begun. There cannot be a great interval
of time between the cat and bird fresco of Hagia Triada'
and the fine Early XVIIIth Dynasty painting from
Thebes, where wild ducks are hunted from a reed boat,
and a cat. used as the falcon of the Middle Ages was
used for higher-flying game, is trampling two wild birds
and has its teeth in a third.2 Mr. Evans at present gives
the date as 1800 to 1600,J but it is possible that both
beginning and ending should be fifty years later.
This would suit excellently for the beginning of Late
Minoan II., which is contemporary, almost without a
doubt, with the frescoes on the tombs of Sen-Mut and
Rekhmara at Thebes. On these frescoes the Keftians
and the men " of the isles in the midst of the sea " are
represented as bringing their tribute to the Egyptian
king.4 Most Egyptologists are agreed that there is no
difficulty, from the linguistic and historical points of
view, in referring the name Keftiu, the " Back of Be-
yond " people, as used at this period, to the men of
the Minoan world.5 The tribute-bearers themselves
are depicted differently from the beak-nosed Semites
or the long-robed Asiatics, or the natives of Egypt
1 Sec p. 31.
2 British Museum, Egyptian Room, 2>7977 = Breasted, Hist.
1906, fig. 156, p. 418. 3 Ashmolean Cases.
* Breasted, A.R. 1906, vol. ii. No. 761, p. 295, n. b ; H. R.
Hall, B.S.A. viii. pp. 162-75, x- I54_7-
5 Von Bissing apud Hall, B.S.A. viii. p. 165 ; Breasted, Hist.
1906, pp. 261, 338. Petrie, Hist. ii. pp. 118, 123, 157, is an
exception.
of the two great periods that preceded it ? Though we
have no Egyptian equation that at first sight seems so
definite for Late Minoan L and II. as the Cartouche of
King Khyan for Middle Minoan DDL, the connections
that we can establish are happily not the subject of
such hot dispute. Though Late Minoan L may have
begun in the last days of the Hyksos domination, it is
unlikely that it ended till the XVIIIth Dynasty had
already well begun. There cannot be a great interval
of time between the cat and bird fresco of Hagia Triada'
and the fine Early XVIIIth Dynasty painting from
Thebes, where wild ducks are hunted from a reed boat,
and a cat. used as the falcon of the Middle Ages was
used for higher-flying game, is trampling two wild birds
and has its teeth in a third.2 Mr. Evans at present gives
the date as 1800 to 1600,J but it is possible that both
beginning and ending should be fifty years later.
This would suit excellently for the beginning of Late
Minoan II., which is contemporary, almost without a
doubt, with the frescoes on the tombs of Sen-Mut and
Rekhmara at Thebes. On these frescoes the Keftians
and the men " of the isles in the midst of the sea " are
represented as bringing their tribute to the Egyptian
king.4 Most Egyptologists are agreed that there is no
difficulty, from the linguistic and historical points of
view, in referring the name Keftiu, the " Back of Be-
yond " people, as used at this period, to the men of
the Minoan world.5 The tribute-bearers themselves
are depicted differently from the beak-nosed Semites
or the long-robed Asiatics, or the natives of Egypt
1 Sec p. 31.
2 British Museum, Egyptian Room, 2>7977 = Breasted, Hist.
1906, fig. 156, p. 418. 3 Ashmolean Cases.
* Breasted, A.R. 1906, vol. ii. No. 761, p. 295, n. b ; H. R.
Hall, B.S.A. viii. pp. 162-75, x- I54_7-
5 Von Bissing apud Hall, B.S.A. viii. p. 165 ; Breasted, Hist.
1906, pp. 261, 338. Petrie, Hist. ii. pp. 118, 123, 157, is an
exception.