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A. J. Evans
Workers—of which perhaps we find a later echo in the fabled craft of the
Idaean Dactyls—sufficiently explains the value set on such offerings by
contemporary Pharaohs.
An analogy has already been pointed out between the cup-bearer and
the vase-holding youths of the Procession Fresco and the tribute-bearing
Kefts of the Theban tomb paintings. A part of a steatite vessel presenting a
small relief was found this year during the work of road-making on the
further side of the stream, immediately South of the Palace, which supplies
a new and interesting parallel.
As will be seen from Fig. 85 the subject consists of two youths—part,
no doubt, of a larger procession,—walking to the left in front of a building,
each of whom holds out a bowl in his left hand. The parts of the figures
preserved display the sinewy build so characteristic of Minoan art. Long
tresses of hair hang down below their shoulders, and they wear a simple
loin cloth and girdle. The building behind is constructed partly of iso-
domic masonry and partly, it may be inferred, of wood. Among the
wooden constructions are posts with the curious rectangular imposts or
capitals already referred to above,1 which recur in the case of some
buildings seen in the miniature frescoes. The posts are continued upwards,
and, between them, resting on a ledge in two horizontal pieces, are the Sacral
Horns. This feature which was probably repeated, as shown in the restored
drawing in the adjoining sections, seems to imply a religious intention in
the offertory scene below.
$20.—The Royal Villa and Primitive 'Basilica.'
Immediately beneath the Palace site to the East and skirting the edge
of the river-flat, shaded here with secular olive trees, figs, and mulberries, is
a steep bank, terraced about the middle of its slope by the mule path run-
ning North to the village of Makryteichos. Here, at a point about 120
metres East of the Northern Entrance of the Palace, four gypsum door--
jambs had been observed in 1902, partly projecting from the foot of
the declivity. The further investigation of these had however been,
perforce, postponed.
1 See above, p. 56, Fig. 35 ami p. 57.
- According to the analogy of the remains found in the Palace the upper part here would he a
gypsum slab and the lower a wooden beam.
Workers—of which perhaps we find a later echo in the fabled craft of the
Idaean Dactyls—sufficiently explains the value set on such offerings by
contemporary Pharaohs.
An analogy has already been pointed out between the cup-bearer and
the vase-holding youths of the Procession Fresco and the tribute-bearing
Kefts of the Theban tomb paintings. A part of a steatite vessel presenting a
small relief was found this year during the work of road-making on the
further side of the stream, immediately South of the Palace, which supplies
a new and interesting parallel.
As will be seen from Fig. 85 the subject consists of two youths—part,
no doubt, of a larger procession,—walking to the left in front of a building,
each of whom holds out a bowl in his left hand. The parts of the figures
preserved display the sinewy build so characteristic of Minoan art. Long
tresses of hair hang down below their shoulders, and they wear a simple
loin cloth and girdle. The building behind is constructed partly of iso-
domic masonry and partly, it may be inferred, of wood. Among the
wooden constructions are posts with the curious rectangular imposts or
capitals already referred to above,1 which recur in the case of some
buildings seen in the miniature frescoes. The posts are continued upwards,
and, between them, resting on a ledge in two horizontal pieces, are the Sacral
Horns. This feature which was probably repeated, as shown in the restored
drawing in the adjoining sections, seems to imply a religious intention in
the offertory scene below.
$20.—The Royal Villa and Primitive 'Basilica.'
Immediately beneath the Palace site to the East and skirting the edge
of the river-flat, shaded here with secular olive trees, figs, and mulberries, is
a steep bank, terraced about the middle of its slope by the mule path run-
ning North to the village of Makryteichos. Here, at a point about 120
metres East of the Northern Entrance of the Palace, four gypsum door--
jambs had been observed in 1902, partly projecting from the foot of
the declivity. The further investigation of these had however been,
perforce, postponed.
1 See above, p. 56, Fig. 35 ami p. 57.
- According to the analogy of the remains found in the Palace the upper part here would he a
gypsum slab and the lower a wooden beam.