Evans, Arthur J.: The Palace of Minos: a comparative account of the successive stages of the early Cretan civilization as illustred by the discoveries at Knossos (Band 1): The Neolithic and Early and Middle Minoan Ages (London, 1921)

THE PALACE OF MINOS, ETC.

Negroid
Types.

marching; others, probably archers, are in a half-kneeling pose. In another
case there is seen part of a prostrate figure (Fig. 228, r), or, perhaps, of
two men grappling with one another.

The Minoan figures are tinted with a pale ochreous hue, but besides
these are fragments of others of a more swarthy skin colour, while the
steatopygous rump, abdominal prominence, and prognathism displayed by
some of these are clearly negroid (Fig. 230, a, b, c). Another of the

Fig. 229, a, l>, c. Fragments of Faience Plaques [enlarged about 2 diams.).

Animals,
Trees,
and
Water.

; r.

Fig. 230, a, b, c. Fragments of Faience Plaques with Negroid

Forms, {c. 2 diams.)

dark-skinned figures is seen in a grotesque attitude squatting like a frog
(Fig. 228, z), others are exceptionally small, and with their hands stretched
out as if in the guise of suppliants.

Remains of more than one plaque (Fig. 228 c, d, e) depicting the Cretan
wild goat or agrimi point to hunting scenes, but there was also the foot (6)
of an ox or bull, which may have belonged to a pastoral or agricultural theme.
Others show trees, some with ivylike foliage {/f). A very suggestive
tablet is entirely covered with a waved design depicting water (gg)—in
riverless Crete, surely, the 'Stream of Ocean'. It seems probable that