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198 NEOLITHIC POTTERY OF SOUTH RUSSIA
that Minoan Crete was Indo-European, the termination
in -nth, which occurs there as much as on the mainland,1
can scarcely be Indo-European either. Nor could we
account for the survival into Classical times, not in
Crete alone, but all over the Greek world, of the essentials
of Minoan religion,2 with its kinship to the pre-Indo-
European cult of Asia Minor, had it been an alien in-
fluence imposed from Crete. The Renascence of art
in Attica and in the Greek colonies on the Asia Minor
coast would also be difficult to explain. On the rival
hypothesis,3 those sections of the old Mediterranean race
that were least modified by the first tide of Northern
invasion found shelter over-seas, among a kindred race,
before the pressure of later and fiercer inroads, or were
isolated in an uninviting rocky corner of the mainland.
This is a luminous and convincing explanation. On
Dr. Dorpfeld's theory we should have to imagine
that there was a continuous Minoan population all along
the Asiatic coast/ to which the Renascence was really
due, although in Greece itself there was no Minoan
1 See above, p. 154. This conclusion, it will be noticed, is
reached on historical and archaeological grounds. On the lin-
guistic evidence alone there is much to be said for the other
view. Professor Conway, for instance, suggests to me an at-
tractive derivation of Kop&Oos from Kelpm, to cut (cp. Kut>ntk)
which is ideal for the Isthmus. Kdpwtioc, a barley-cake, would thus
be a "slice " or " bit." This would fit in with the fact that Corinth
was insignificant in Minoan times. See Hall, O.C.G. 288-9.
2 Pp. 115, 138. Farnell lays too much stress on eccentricity of
tribal migration as an origin of similarity of cult ; e.g. his Ionians
in S. Laconia (C.G.S. iv. 42-4).
3 E.g. D. G. Hogarth, A. A. pp. 244-5.
4 Though much of the population of Asia Minor may have
been akin to the Minoans, neither tradition nor yet excavation,
so far as at present carried out, suggests that any settlements on
the coast rose to importance till Late Minoan III. The remains
of this period at Miletus (Dawkins in Y.W.C.S. 1907, p. 7) are best
accounted for by migration from Crete and other places under
pressure from the north. See above, p. 143,
that Minoan Crete was Indo-European, the termination
in -nth, which occurs there as much as on the mainland,1
can scarcely be Indo-European either. Nor could we
account for the survival into Classical times, not in
Crete alone, but all over the Greek world, of the essentials
of Minoan religion,2 with its kinship to the pre-Indo-
European cult of Asia Minor, had it been an alien in-
fluence imposed from Crete. The Renascence of art
in Attica and in the Greek colonies on the Asia Minor
coast would also be difficult to explain. On the rival
hypothesis,3 those sections of the old Mediterranean race
that were least modified by the first tide of Northern
invasion found shelter over-seas, among a kindred race,
before the pressure of later and fiercer inroads, or were
isolated in an uninviting rocky corner of the mainland.
This is a luminous and convincing explanation. On
Dr. Dorpfeld's theory we should have to imagine
that there was a continuous Minoan population all along
the Asiatic coast/ to which the Renascence was really
due, although in Greece itself there was no Minoan
1 See above, p. 154. This conclusion, it will be noticed, is
reached on historical and archaeological grounds. On the lin-
guistic evidence alone there is much to be said for the other
view. Professor Conway, for instance, suggests to me an at-
tractive derivation of Kop&Oos from Kelpm, to cut (cp. Kut>ntk)
which is ideal for the Isthmus. Kdpwtioc, a barley-cake, would thus
be a "slice " or " bit." This would fit in with the fact that Corinth
was insignificant in Minoan times. See Hall, O.C.G. 288-9.
2 Pp. 115, 138. Farnell lays too much stress on eccentricity of
tribal migration as an origin of similarity of cult ; e.g. his Ionians
in S. Laconia (C.G.S. iv. 42-4).
3 E.g. D. G. Hogarth, A. A. pp. 244-5.
4 Though much of the population of Asia Minor may have
been akin to the Minoans, neither tradition nor yet excavation,
so far as at present carried out, suggests that any settlements on
the coast rose to importance till Late Minoan III. The remains
of this period at Miletus (Dawkins in Y.W.C.S. 1907, p. 7) are best
accounted for by migration from Crete and other places under
pressure from the north. See above, p. 143,