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 2,2): Town houses in Knossos of the new era and restored West Palace Section (London, 1928)

738 MINOAN TRIBUTARIES FROM TOMB OF USER-AMON

while the Knossian parallels to the silver and copper ewer on the shoulder
of No. 3 have already been pointed out.1 The misconceived Minoan loin-
clothing is well shown by the third figure.

In the User-amon group (Fig. 471), the first 'tribute-bearer' holds
a bull's head ' rhyton ' of the Minoan ritual class,2 the second a silver ewer

Fig. 471. Minoan Tributaries from Keftiu : Tomb of User-amon.

Tomb of with coil decoration on the lower part of the body, the third a silver figurine
amon". °f a galloping bull recalling the bronze example illustrated for comparison
above ;3 it stands on a salver of the same metal. The jackal's head—also
doubtless a ' rh) ton '—borne on a bowl by the last of the series seems, from
its white ground with yellow patches, to have been of silver with gold inlays.
What appears to be a jackal's head also occurs among the vessels from
Keftiu on the Rekhmara Tomb,4 and in the hands of a Minoan ' tributary'
in that of Men-kheper'ra-senb.5 Jackals, though not found to-day in Crete,
are still widely distributed in the East Mediterranean regions, and even
occur on some Dalmatian Islands.

A wall-painting in low relief in the Tomb of Puemra,0 who also belongs

1 See above, pp. 425, 426, and Fig. 246.
- See above, p. 527 seqq., and p. 536, Fig.
340.

3 See p. 651 above, and Fig. 41G.

right).

6 W. Max Miiller, Egyptian Researches, ii,
PL XI, 1.

6 N. de G. Davies, Liv. Anns., vi (1914),

4 See above, p. 535, Fig. 339 (upper row to p. 84 seqq., and PI. XVIII, and more fully in