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PRIMITIVE CRETAN AND AEGEAN CULTURE. 138
represented occurs on a class of seal represented by specimens from Sidon
and elsewhere belonging to a period contemporary with that of the geo-
metrical style in Greece.
Similar comparisons lead me to believe that some at least of the flat
discoid types of Cretan seal-stones represented in Figs. 66, p. 342, and 67,
p. 343, also belong to this later period. The archer on Fig. 66, with his bird-
like head, certainly suggests reminiscences of the 'Dipylon' style and its
congeners of about the ninth century B.C. A green steatite gem of the
same form as the above, acquired by me in Greece, exhibits moreover a
figure of a spearman with something like the 'Dipylon' crest, and it is
further to be observed that on some seals from the Heraeon at Argos,
apparently belonging to the geometrical period, are seen figures of men in
tunics bearing a family likeness to those on these two Cretan stones.
I have to thank M. J. P. Six, of Amsterdam, for suggestions of various
comparisons between the pictographs and linear signs of Crete and Lykian,
Carian and other characters. The Lykian comparisons are especially
important from the tradition recorded by Herodotosa and corroborated by
place-names that the Lykians originally came from Crete. In the neigh-
bouring Pisidia was a Kprjrcov ttoXii : in Lykia itself the town-names Aptera
and Einatos are common to Crete and on the Lykian borders was both a town
and mountain called Daedala.
41 Mist. lib. i. 173. Cf. Hoeck, Creta ii. p. 335 seqq.
represented occurs on a class of seal represented by specimens from Sidon
and elsewhere belonging to a period contemporary with that of the geo-
metrical style in Greece.
Similar comparisons lead me to believe that some at least of the flat
discoid types of Cretan seal-stones represented in Figs. 66, p. 342, and 67,
p. 343, also belong to this later period. The archer on Fig. 66, with his bird-
like head, certainly suggests reminiscences of the 'Dipylon' style and its
congeners of about the ninth century B.C. A green steatite gem of the
same form as the above, acquired by me in Greece, exhibits moreover a
figure of a spearman with something like the 'Dipylon' crest, and it is
further to be observed that on some seals from the Heraeon at Argos,
apparently belonging to the geometrical period, are seen figures of men in
tunics bearing a family likeness to those on these two Cretan stones.
I have to thank M. J. P. Six, of Amsterdam, for suggestions of various
comparisons between the pictographs and linear signs of Crete and Lykian,
Carian and other characters. The Lykian comparisons are especially
important from the tradition recorded by Herodotosa and corroborated by
place-names that the Lykians originally came from Crete. In the neigh-
bouring Pisidia was a Kprjrcov ttoXii : in Lykia itself the town-names Aptera
and Einatos are common to Crete and on the Lykian borders was both a town
and mountain called Daedala.
41 Mist. lib. i. 173. Cf. Hoeck, Creta ii. p. 335 seqq.