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CONNEXIONS: LIBYAN AND EGYPTIAN FACTORS 43
it presents a distinct analogy to those from Kumasa, an outline of which is
placed beside it in Fig. 19, b, c, for comparison. In the tholos of Christos
the inner lintel block of the doorway, which has exceptionally massive pro-
portions, displays the same protuberance above. It is here 90 cm. thick.
(See below, p. 82, Fig. 38.) A remarkable survival of the same architectural
expedient occurs in the massive lintel of the doorway of a circular grave l
enclosure near Myndos in Caria of a class containing ' Sub-Minoan ' pottery.
The discrepancy in date and cultural stage between the two groups of
monuments leaves a void in our knowledge which can only be filled up by
* 2.2.0
4 60
Fig. 19. a, Lintel of Lions' Gate, Mycenae, b, c, Lintels of Tholos A and E, Kumasa.
fresh discoveries. The range of distribution of the ' Mycenaean' beehive
tombs is certainly quite compatible with a Cretan source. This is especially
the case when we regard the notable examples on the Western Coast of the
Morea at the Messenian Pylos,2 overlooking the famous harbour of Navarino,
and, farther North, at Kakovatos,3 identified by Dorpfeld with the Homeric
Pylos.4 Not only are the original contents of these tombs, moreover, purely
Minoan, but the decorative sculptures, such as we see them in the facade
of the 'Atreus' tomb, answer, as we shall see, to those of the Palace at
Knossos as restored at the close of M. M. II after the great catastrophe.
It is true that, notwithstanding these unquestionable affinities, no such
contemporary vaults of a sepulchral kind have as yet been discovered
on Cretan soil. The Royal Tomb of Isopata6 is
1 Figured by Fr. Winter, Ath. Milth., xii
(1887), p. 225, Fig. 2. For the pottery of
this group seeW. R. Paton,/. H. S., viii (1887),
p. 69 seqq.
2 K. Kuruniotis, 'Apx- 'E$., 1914, p. 99 seqq.
This tomb,the original contents of which belong
to L. M. I b, was reoccupied at the very end of
the Mycenaean Age. So, too, the Aigisthos
Tomb at Mycenae.
Minoan
associa-
tions of
' Myce-
naean '
tholoi.
itself of rectangular
3 Kurt Miiller, Ath. Mitth., xxxiv, 1909,
p. 269 seqq. The early elements belong to
L. M. \a (e. g. the amphora, p. 316, Fig. 16),
but the great bulk of the vases are L. M. I b.
4 Ath. Mitth., xxxviii (1913), p. 97 seqq.
Die Lage der homerischen Burg Pylos.
5 Preh. Tombs of Knossos, p. 136 seqq.
(Archaeologia, lix).
it presents a distinct analogy to those from Kumasa, an outline of which is
placed beside it in Fig. 19, b, c, for comparison. In the tholos of Christos
the inner lintel block of the doorway, which has exceptionally massive pro-
portions, displays the same protuberance above. It is here 90 cm. thick.
(See below, p. 82, Fig. 38.) A remarkable survival of the same architectural
expedient occurs in the massive lintel of the doorway of a circular grave l
enclosure near Myndos in Caria of a class containing ' Sub-Minoan ' pottery.
The discrepancy in date and cultural stage between the two groups of
monuments leaves a void in our knowledge which can only be filled up by
* 2.2.0
4 60
Fig. 19. a, Lintel of Lions' Gate, Mycenae, b, c, Lintels of Tholos A and E, Kumasa.
fresh discoveries. The range of distribution of the ' Mycenaean' beehive
tombs is certainly quite compatible with a Cretan source. This is especially
the case when we regard the notable examples on the Western Coast of the
Morea at the Messenian Pylos,2 overlooking the famous harbour of Navarino,
and, farther North, at Kakovatos,3 identified by Dorpfeld with the Homeric
Pylos.4 Not only are the original contents of these tombs, moreover, purely
Minoan, but the decorative sculptures, such as we see them in the facade
of the 'Atreus' tomb, answer, as we shall see, to those of the Palace at
Knossos as restored at the close of M. M. II after the great catastrophe.
It is true that, notwithstanding these unquestionable affinities, no such
contemporary vaults of a sepulchral kind have as yet been discovered
on Cretan soil. The Royal Tomb of Isopata6 is
1 Figured by Fr. Winter, Ath. Milth., xii
(1887), p. 225, Fig. 2. For the pottery of
this group seeW. R. Paton,/. H. S., viii (1887),
p. 69 seqq.
2 K. Kuruniotis, 'Apx- 'E$., 1914, p. 99 seqq.
This tomb,the original contents of which belong
to L. M. I b, was reoccupied at the very end of
the Mycenaean Age. So, too, the Aigisthos
Tomb at Mycenae.
Minoan
associa-
tions of
' Myce-
naean '
tholoi.
itself of rectangular
3 Kurt Miiller, Ath. Mitth., xxxiv, 1909,
p. 269 seqq. The early elements belong to
L. M. \a (e. g. the amphora, p. 316, Fig. 16),
but the great bulk of the vases are L. M. I b.
4 Ath. Mitth., xxxviii (1913), p. 97 seqq.
Die Lage der homerischen Burg Pylos.
5 Preh. Tombs of Knossos, p. 136 seqq.
(Archaeologia, lix).