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THE PHAESTOS DISK
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shows a certain affinity with the Hittite dress. It is, at an)- rate, dis-
tinctively non-Semitic. The woman (Fig. 4 85, d) is marked not only by uistinc-
a different costume with an under-skirt, but by a breadth of body in curious sigps ■
contrast to the usually pinched-in waist of the Minoan ladies.1 Woman.
In 5, again, we see an infant in a short shirt, equalh' unparalleled among infant.
Cretan representations, c is obviously a captive, and e may be the head of Captive,
another, apparently with double-ringed ear-rings, like the Negroid heads of
the jewel depicted in Fig. 231 above.2 In close connexion with the two
preceding signs must be taken the object seen in Fig. 484, a, which seems, Mana-
as already noted, to be a typical representation of manacles. cles'
Of still greater interest is the head,/", clad apparently in a close-fitting Plumed
cap with plumes. This headgear at once recalls the plumed caps of the 0flater
Vikino- swarms from the North and the Great Green Sea, who ravaged ^ea"
0 , . . ■ Rovers.
the Delta from the Eighteenth to the Twenty-Third Dynasties. The
general trend of the evidence points, as we shall see, to the South-West
Coast of Asia Minor 3 as the original home of these peoples, and this con-
nexion is borne out by the appearance,— more or less contemporary with
these Viking raids,—among the reliefs of the ivory ' Mycenaean ' casket from
Enkomi or Old Salarnis—of a warrior in a short tunic, holding an axe and
wearing a similar crested cap on his head.4 The round shield (Fig. 483, 12) Round
takes us into the same field of comparisons. Like the plumed cap it is non- shield-
Minoan, but it is worn by a warrior on another ivory relief5 from the same
Cypriote cemetery, and is characteristic of the same group of seafaring
peoples. The belt and short tunic is also their usual attire, in strong-
contrast to the long ' gaberdines ' of Syrian fashion.
The composite horn bow of Asiatic origin, seen in i, is also very Asiatic
characteristic of the Southern and Western Anatolian area, and the horned
bow unstrung is a common Hittite sign. Both this and the simple Euro-
1 Pernier and others (e. g. Hall, J, II. S., where the parallel between the pagoda-like
1 g 11, p. 119) have compared the small gold building and Lykian forms was first suggested,
figure of a woman from a Mycenae Shaft 4 A. S. Murray, Excavations in Cyprus, PI. I
Grave (Schliemann, p. 182, Fig. 273), which and p. 12, Fig. 19, and cf. p. 31. The tomb,
is exceptionally broadly rendered. But the No. 58, in which this casket was found con-
V-shaped flounces that she wears are those of tained two iron knives with ivory handles, and
the usual Late Minoan fashions, without under- belong, therefore, to the beginning of the
skirt. The contemporary M.M.III modes do Cypriote Iron Age.
not even present this amount of resemblance 5 On an ivory mirror-handle ; op. n't., PI. II,
(see below, p. 680, Fig. 500). and cf. pp. 31, 32. P was from the purely Bronze
2 See p. 312. Age Tomb No. 17 (Late Mycenaean). Cf. my
3 See Scripta Minoa,\, pp. 24, 25, and 287, Cyprus in Anthr. Inst. Journ , xxx, p. 212.
655
shows a certain affinity with the Hittite dress. It is, at an)- rate, dis-
tinctively non-Semitic. The woman (Fig. 4 85, d) is marked not only by uistinc-
a different costume with an under-skirt, but by a breadth of body in curious sigps ■
contrast to the usually pinched-in waist of the Minoan ladies.1 Woman.
In 5, again, we see an infant in a short shirt, equalh' unparalleled among infant.
Cretan representations, c is obviously a captive, and e may be the head of Captive,
another, apparently with double-ringed ear-rings, like the Negroid heads of
the jewel depicted in Fig. 231 above.2 In close connexion with the two
preceding signs must be taken the object seen in Fig. 484, a, which seems, Mana-
as already noted, to be a typical representation of manacles. cles'
Of still greater interest is the head,/", clad apparently in a close-fitting Plumed
cap with plumes. This headgear at once recalls the plumed caps of the 0flater
Vikino- swarms from the North and the Great Green Sea, who ravaged ^ea"
0 , . . ■ Rovers.
the Delta from the Eighteenth to the Twenty-Third Dynasties. The
general trend of the evidence points, as we shall see, to the South-West
Coast of Asia Minor 3 as the original home of these peoples, and this con-
nexion is borne out by the appearance,— more or less contemporary with
these Viking raids,—among the reliefs of the ivory ' Mycenaean ' casket from
Enkomi or Old Salarnis—of a warrior in a short tunic, holding an axe and
wearing a similar crested cap on his head.4 The round shield (Fig. 483, 12) Round
takes us into the same field of comparisons. Like the plumed cap it is non- shield-
Minoan, but it is worn by a warrior on another ivory relief5 from the same
Cypriote cemetery, and is characteristic of the same group of seafaring
peoples. The belt and short tunic is also their usual attire, in strong-
contrast to the long ' gaberdines ' of Syrian fashion.
The composite horn bow of Asiatic origin, seen in i, is also very Asiatic
characteristic of the Southern and Western Anatolian area, and the horned
bow unstrung is a common Hittite sign. Both this and the simple Euro-
1 Pernier and others (e. g. Hall, J, II. S., where the parallel between the pagoda-like
1 g 11, p. 119) have compared the small gold building and Lykian forms was first suggested,
figure of a woman from a Mycenae Shaft 4 A. S. Murray, Excavations in Cyprus, PI. I
Grave (Schliemann, p. 182, Fig. 273), which and p. 12, Fig. 19, and cf. p. 31. The tomb,
is exceptionally broadly rendered. But the No. 58, in which this casket was found con-
V-shaped flounces that she wears are those of tained two iron knives with ivory handles, and
the usual Late Minoan fashions, without under- belong, therefore, to the beginning of the
skirt. The contemporary M.M.III modes do Cypriote Iron Age.
not even present this amount of resemblance 5 On an ivory mirror-handle ; op. n't., PI. II,
(see below, p. 680, Fig. 500). and cf. pp. 31, 32. P was from the purely Bronze
2 See p. 312. Age Tomb No. 17 (Late Mycenaean). Cf. my
3 See Scripta Minoa,\, pp. 24, 25, and 287, Cyprus in Anthr. Inst. Journ , xxx, p. 212.