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THE PALACE OF MINOS, ETC.
man is bare-headed with a lock of hair curling" over his forehead. He wears
the usual Minoan gaiters, but his belt and the arrangement of his loin-cloth
are abnormal. The waist-band shows vertical stripes, and its outline behind
Com- is for some reason doubled and appears to have a triple flounce. Two
JJt"son curving lines run out from the belt in front, perhaps the strings by which
Mycenae jt was tied. The spear has a curious cross-piece below the head, which
itself looks like a square shouldered dagger-blade.
There can be little doubt that to bring out the effect of the designs some
conspicuous material was inserted into the lines of the engraving. There is
a great probability indeed that the material with which they were filled was
gold wire hammered in, as for instance in the case of the lines, less deeply
incised, on the spear-head of the Egyptian King Karnes. In the roughly
drawn but vigorous engrailed work of this early dagger-blade we would thus
see the direct forerunner of the varied inlays and far more elaborate technique
of the blades found in the Fourth Shaft Grave at Mycenae, in associations
that belong to a mature phase of M. M. III.
The The fragment of the gold plated rhyton showing the fore-part of
hum in a changing boar illustrated in Fig. 490 may belong to some boar-hunting
Minoan scene of the same kind as that on the dagger-blade.1
Art.
c The presence among the earlier remains of the Mycenae Shaft Graves
verging Qf pottery and faience inlays identical with those of the Temple Repositories
evidences •
ofMinoan at Knossos is in keeping with the close parallels above established by the
of MyCter comparative materials drawn from the great contemporary hoards of seal-
cenae impressions. The marvellous inlaid designs of the Mycenae dagger-
blades are now seen to go back to the earlier and simpler technique
Broad- represented by the example from Lasethi. This last-named specimen
andrdS moreover and a similar dagger-form from Hagia Triada supply the ante-
Rapiers, cedent stage to the broad-bladed swords of the Mycenae graves with their
tanged shoulders. At the same time the rapier type of thrusting sword so
well represented in the same sepulchral armoury, can also be shown to be of
Minoan derivation.2 In its fully developed shape it came to light at Knossos
in a deposit by the Isopata Cemetery, in company with an inlaid limestone
vessel of a characteristic class of which fragmentary specimens were found
with the Khyan alabastron lid. These have been above referred to the
penultimate phase of M. M. III.3
1 For a wild boar on an K.M. ivory seal see of the Hieroglyphic signary perhaps refer to
Mosso, La Preistoria, i, 192, Fig. 102, d. It domesticated animals since they are followed by
recurs as a type on the M. M, II lentoid, p. 275, the 1 gate ' or ' fence' (Scriftta Minoa, i, p. 208).
Fig. 204,(5. The swine signs, Nos. 69 and 70 2 See Vol. II. 3 See above, p. 413.
THE PALACE OF MINOS, ETC.
man is bare-headed with a lock of hair curling" over his forehead. He wears
the usual Minoan gaiters, but his belt and the arrangement of his loin-cloth
are abnormal. The waist-band shows vertical stripes, and its outline behind
Com- is for some reason doubled and appears to have a triple flounce. Two
JJt"son curving lines run out from the belt in front, perhaps the strings by which
Mycenae jt was tied. The spear has a curious cross-piece below the head, which
itself looks like a square shouldered dagger-blade.
There can be little doubt that to bring out the effect of the designs some
conspicuous material was inserted into the lines of the engraving. There is
a great probability indeed that the material with which they were filled was
gold wire hammered in, as for instance in the case of the lines, less deeply
incised, on the spear-head of the Egyptian King Karnes. In the roughly
drawn but vigorous engrailed work of this early dagger-blade we would thus
see the direct forerunner of the varied inlays and far more elaborate technique
of the blades found in the Fourth Shaft Grave at Mycenae, in associations
that belong to a mature phase of M. M. III.
The The fragment of the gold plated rhyton showing the fore-part of
hum in a changing boar illustrated in Fig. 490 may belong to some boar-hunting
Minoan scene of the same kind as that on the dagger-blade.1
Art.
c The presence among the earlier remains of the Mycenae Shaft Graves
verging Qf pottery and faience inlays identical with those of the Temple Repositories
evidences •
ofMinoan at Knossos is in keeping with the close parallels above established by the
of MyCter comparative materials drawn from the great contemporary hoards of seal-
cenae impressions. The marvellous inlaid designs of the Mycenae dagger-
blades are now seen to go back to the earlier and simpler technique
Broad- represented by the example from Lasethi. This last-named specimen
andrdS moreover and a similar dagger-form from Hagia Triada supply the ante-
Rapiers, cedent stage to the broad-bladed swords of the Mycenae graves with their
tanged shoulders. At the same time the rapier type of thrusting sword so
well represented in the same sepulchral armoury, can also be shown to be of
Minoan derivation.2 In its fully developed shape it came to light at Knossos
in a deposit by the Isopata Cemetery, in company with an inlaid limestone
vessel of a characteristic class of which fragmentary specimens were found
with the Khyan alabastron lid. These have been above referred to the
penultimate phase of M. M. III.3
1 For a wild boar on an K.M. ivory seal see of the Hieroglyphic signary perhaps refer to
Mosso, La Preistoria, i, 192, Fig. 102, d. It domesticated animals since they are followed by
recurs as a type on the M. M, II lentoid, p. 275, the 1 gate ' or ' fence' (Scriftta Minoa, i, p. 208).
Fig. 204,(5. The swine signs, Nos. 69 and 70 2 See Vol. II. 3 See above, p. 413.