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78 PARALLELS WITH FRIEZE FROM N. ENTRANCE
As I hope to demonstrate more fully elsewhere,1 the reliefs on these slabs,
one showing the head of a coursing bull and part of an olive tree, the other the
fore-feet of a bovine animal in a stationary position, belong to two contrasted
compositions of which, in variant
forms, we meet with recurring
evidence among- Minoan re-
mains. The most perfect exam-
ples are those exhibited on the
gold cups from the Vapheio
tomb. On one of these we
witness a drive of half-wild
bulls of the Urus breed, accom-
panied by sensational ' Cow-
boy ' feats. On the other are
seen the successive stages of the
capture of a bull by means of
a decoy cow. But the monu-
mental history of these artistic
groups leads us almost inevit-
ably back to the magnificent
painted stucco reliefs that
adorned the back walls of the
two colonnades that overlooked
the North Entrance of the
Palace at Knossos, and which
go back to the earlier phase of
the Third Middle Minoan Period.- In this case the evidence of the West
Portico is clear, indicating the existence of several bulls and including the
head of a charging animal, and the leg of a female acrobatic figure. As
regards the East Portico we have only a fragmentary indication, but there is at
least a strong probability that the subject of the painted decoration resembled
the less sensational of the two compositions. The noble bull's head found
among the remains of the West Portico is shown from the folds of its dewlap
to be that of an animal charging or coursing with its head clown. (See Fig. 55.)
1 I must refer for a fuller statement of the in Times and Manchester Guardian of Nov. 7.)
subject to Palace of Minos, iii, §75. I called 8 For the painted reliefs of the Northern
Fig. 5o. Painted Stucco Relief of Head of
Charging Bull, W. Portico of N. Entrance,
Knossos.
attention to the bearing of some recent dis-
coveries on the matter in a communication
made at the Annual Meeting of the British
School at Athens on Nov. 6, 1928. (See report
Entrance Passage and their relation to the
Vapheio compositions I must refer to my
forthcoming third volume of the /'a/ace of
Minos, § 74.
As I hope to demonstrate more fully elsewhere,1 the reliefs on these slabs,
one showing the head of a coursing bull and part of an olive tree, the other the
fore-feet of a bovine animal in a stationary position, belong to two contrasted
compositions of which, in variant
forms, we meet with recurring
evidence among- Minoan re-
mains. The most perfect exam-
ples are those exhibited on the
gold cups from the Vapheio
tomb. On one of these we
witness a drive of half-wild
bulls of the Urus breed, accom-
panied by sensational ' Cow-
boy ' feats. On the other are
seen the successive stages of the
capture of a bull by means of
a decoy cow. But the monu-
mental history of these artistic
groups leads us almost inevit-
ably back to the magnificent
painted stucco reliefs that
adorned the back walls of the
two colonnades that overlooked
the North Entrance of the
Palace at Knossos, and which
go back to the earlier phase of
the Third Middle Minoan Period.- In this case the evidence of the West
Portico is clear, indicating the existence of several bulls and including the
head of a charging animal, and the leg of a female acrobatic figure. As
regards the East Portico we have only a fragmentary indication, but there is at
least a strong probability that the subject of the painted decoration resembled
the less sensational of the two compositions. The noble bull's head found
among the remains of the West Portico is shown from the folds of its dewlap
to be that of an animal charging or coursing with its head clown. (See Fig. 55.)
1 I must refer for a fuller statement of the in Times and Manchester Guardian of Nov. 7.)
subject to Palace of Minos, iii, §75. I called 8 For the painted reliefs of the Northern
Fig. 5o. Painted Stucco Relief of Head of
Charging Bull, W. Portico of N. Entrance,
Knossos.
attention to the bearing of some recent dis-
coveries on the matter in a communication
made at the Annual Meeting of the British
School at Athens on Nov. 6, 1928. (See report
Entrance Passage and their relation to the
Vapheio compositions I must refer to my
forthcoming third volume of the /'a/ace of
Minos, § 74.