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TRANS-AEGEAN INFLUENCES FROM NORTH-EAST 43
Otherwise, in the great majority of instances, as may be seen from the
signet types, the Cretan male costume was adhered to down to the very
latest Mycenaean phase. The women's costume was always Minoan, being
itself sufficiently adapted to the Mainland climate.
Even such decorative elements as the patterns of the Stelae, also
referred to a ' Mainland' or, more distantly, a Trojan source, can, as we
shall see, be shown to be of Minoan origin.1
This, however, is not to deny that on the Mainland side, from the
earliest days of Minoan settlement, we have to do with other factors, such as
the survival in certain classes of objects of indigenous Minyan or Helladic
tradition of the kinds already referred to, or to the intrusion of elements
from other sources. Such have been cited above in the bronze cauldron from
Grave III and the halberd blade, pointing to a wide Northern and Western
connexion. But the evidences of cultural ingredients derived from the Aeeean
side are still more conspicuous, and imply still wider relations on that side.
Evidences of Trans-Aegean Influences from the North-East.
The Troadic affinities of the 'carinated' cups with high-swung handles
have already been referred to, and, indeed, the whole of the intrusive
' Minyan' culture in Greece may be regarded as due to a continuous stream
of influence from that side.- Apart from this general phenomenon, however,
certain objects from the Shaft Graves show a specific connexion with a
North-Eastern archaeological province extending far beyond the Aegean.
A solid gold pin found with a man's skeleton in the Fourth Shaft Grave
(Fig. 34, b),3 surmounted by an animal in a fine Minoan style, apparently
representing a Barbary sheep,4 stands in a very close relation to a similar
cloak-pin of silver (Fig. 34, a) with a horned animal perched on it, from
Amorgos.5 In another direction similarities between the Early Cycladic pins
1 See below, p. 50 seqq., and cf. P. of AT., and two other gold cloak-pins were found, with
ii, Pt. I, pp. 200-2. stags-horn decoration. The pin has a loop on
2 On the ' Troadic ' connexions of ' Minyan ' the top apparently for the attachment of a
ware see especially Mr. E.J. Forsdyke (/.U.S., pendant. This feature, although visible in the
xxxiv (1914), p. r26 seqq.). Mr. G. V. Childe photograph from which Fig. 34, b, was taken,
(op. cit., xxxv (1915), p. 195 seqq.) would ex- is not brought out in Schliemann's illustration,
plain these by ' a more or less unitary culture 4 G. Schmid, Bull, de I'Acad. Imp. des
through the North Aegean and including the Sciences, St.-Pe'iersboitrg, 1903, 5, p. 208.
Troad'. But surely the primary and persistent O. Keller, Antike Tienvelt, i, p. 317. Its
impulse came from the N.E. of the Aegean— present habitat is the arid Southern slopes
whence Boreas blows. of the Atlas.
3 Schliemann, Mycenae, p. 250, Fig. 362. 5 Tsountas, KuK-AaSiKa ('E<£. 'ApX-> 1^99<
There were three men's skeletons in this Grave, PI. VIII, 66). Compare the pin surmounted
Otherwise, in the great majority of instances, as may be seen from the
signet types, the Cretan male costume was adhered to down to the very
latest Mycenaean phase. The women's costume was always Minoan, being
itself sufficiently adapted to the Mainland climate.
Even such decorative elements as the patterns of the Stelae, also
referred to a ' Mainland' or, more distantly, a Trojan source, can, as we
shall see, be shown to be of Minoan origin.1
This, however, is not to deny that on the Mainland side, from the
earliest days of Minoan settlement, we have to do with other factors, such as
the survival in certain classes of objects of indigenous Minyan or Helladic
tradition of the kinds already referred to, or to the intrusion of elements
from other sources. Such have been cited above in the bronze cauldron from
Grave III and the halberd blade, pointing to a wide Northern and Western
connexion. But the evidences of cultural ingredients derived from the Aeeean
side are still more conspicuous, and imply still wider relations on that side.
Evidences of Trans-Aegean Influences from the North-East.
The Troadic affinities of the 'carinated' cups with high-swung handles
have already been referred to, and, indeed, the whole of the intrusive
' Minyan' culture in Greece may be regarded as due to a continuous stream
of influence from that side.- Apart from this general phenomenon, however,
certain objects from the Shaft Graves show a specific connexion with a
North-Eastern archaeological province extending far beyond the Aegean.
A solid gold pin found with a man's skeleton in the Fourth Shaft Grave
(Fig. 34, b),3 surmounted by an animal in a fine Minoan style, apparently
representing a Barbary sheep,4 stands in a very close relation to a similar
cloak-pin of silver (Fig. 34, a) with a horned animal perched on it, from
Amorgos.5 In another direction similarities between the Early Cycladic pins
1 See below, p. 50 seqq., and cf. P. of AT., and two other gold cloak-pins were found, with
ii, Pt. I, pp. 200-2. stags-horn decoration. The pin has a loop on
2 On the ' Troadic ' connexions of ' Minyan ' the top apparently for the attachment of a
ware see especially Mr. E.J. Forsdyke (/.U.S., pendant. This feature, although visible in the
xxxiv (1914), p. r26 seqq.). Mr. G. V. Childe photograph from which Fig. 34, b, was taken,
(op. cit., xxxv (1915), p. 195 seqq.) would ex- is not brought out in Schliemann's illustration,
plain these by ' a more or less unitary culture 4 G. Schmid, Bull, de I'Acad. Imp. des
through the North Aegean and including the Sciences, St.-Pe'iersboitrg, 1903, 5, p. 208.
Troad'. But surely the primary and persistent O. Keller, Antike Tienvelt, i, p. 317. Its
impulse came from the N.E. of the Aegean— present habitat is the arid Southern slopes
whence Boreas blows. of the Atlas.
3 Schliemann, Mycenae, p. 250, Fig. 362. 5 Tsountas, KuK-AaSiKa ('E<£. 'ApX-> 1^99<
There were three men's skeletons in this Grave, PI. VIII, 66). Compare the pin surmounted