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)

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THE PALACE OF MINOS, ETC.

stretch was already in vogue by the close of M. M. II is shown by its
appearance on an agate bead-seal of the 1 flattened cylinder ' type represented
in Fig. 539 c, on the other face of which are engraved characters of the
Hieroglyphic Class B.1 Here a dog seizes the springing wild-goat below and
conventional rocks are seen to the left of the lower field. In this connexion
it is of interest to note that this characteristic motive of Minoan Art, which

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Fig. 541. a, b, Engraved Bronze Dagger-blade with Boar-hunt and fight between
Bulls, showing 'Flying Leap' and Gallop (M. M. II).2

begins thus early in Crete and was later reflected on the Eighteenth Dynasty
wall-paintings, may be traced back in Egypt to the flourishing period of the
Hyksos dominion. As will be seen from Fig. 540, the motive of the ' flying
leap ' appears in the embossed design of a gold-plated dagger-hilt of the
Hyksos King Neb-Khepesh-Ra3 whom an inscribed vase in the British
Museum enables us to identify with Apepi I or Apophis, the predecessor

1 Scripia Minoa, i, p. 157, P. 41 b (cf. PL II). 3 Daressy, Annales de Service, vii, p. 115.

2 From photographs kindly supplied me by Mr. C. C. Edgar, of the Cairo Museum, kindly
its possessor. (See, too, Jonrn. of Mus. of obtained for me the photograph from which
Pennsylvania, 1914.) Fig. 5 10 is taken.