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MINIATURE FRAGMENTS FROM TYLISSOS
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Taureador, on the other hand illustrated belowr, is 42 cm. high or at least
four times as large as the Miniatures, and the figures seated on the camp-
stools would work out to about the same scale.
Such Cretan evidence as we possess of the true ' Miniature' frescoes
outside the Palace at Knossos limits itself to some fragments found in
M.M. Ill
date of
' Minia-
Fig. 17. a, I), Boxers on Miniature Fresco, Tvlissos ; c, on Steatite Rhyton,
Haoia Triada.
a mansion of the not distant Tylissos. Specially important among these, ture'
from their close parallelism with a class of small reliefs, were parts of frorn
a row of boxers, advancing left2 with a tree beyond, and all, it would appear, TyIlsS0S-
in the same characteristic attitude as those from the ' Boxer' rhyton found Boxers
at Hagia Triada,3 the figures on which, indeed, and that on the steatite rhyton.
relief and sealing from Knossos 4 make it possible to restore it (Fig. 17, a, 3, c).
All these parallel examples may be safely referred to the closing Middle
Minoan Period, and the building in which these painted stucco remains
occurred also dates from the same epoch.
Together with these were found pieces showing the skirts of a series of
1 See below, Coloured PI. XXI facing p. 216.
2 J. Hatzidakis, Ti;Aicr<ro9 MivmiKij (Apx-
'£<£., 1912), PI. XIX. Unfortunately the
impress of guiding thread line has been repro-
duced in such a way as to look like a rope in
front of Fig. 17, a.
3 P. of M., i, p. 690, Fig. 511 ; A. Mosso,
Escursioni ?iel Mediterraneo e gli Scavi di
Creta (ed. 2), p. 176, and Fig. 89; H. R.
Hall, Aegean Archaeology, p. 60, PI. XVI.
See on the discovery F. Halbherr, Rendicontl
delta R. Accad. del Lincei, vol. xiv (1905),
p. 365 seqq. The helmet in Fig. 17, c, is
restored from this. On the fragment of the
steatite vessel from Knossos, however, the
boxer's head is bare.
4 P. ofM., i, p. 689, Figs. 509, 510.
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Taureador, on the other hand illustrated belowr, is 42 cm. high or at least
four times as large as the Miniatures, and the figures seated on the camp-
stools would work out to about the same scale.
Such Cretan evidence as we possess of the true ' Miniature' frescoes
outside the Palace at Knossos limits itself to some fragments found in
M.M. Ill
date of
' Minia-
Fig. 17. a, I), Boxers on Miniature Fresco, Tvlissos ; c, on Steatite Rhyton,
Haoia Triada.
a mansion of the not distant Tylissos. Specially important among these, ture'
from their close parallelism with a class of small reliefs, were parts of frorn
a row of boxers, advancing left2 with a tree beyond, and all, it would appear, TyIlsS0S-
in the same characteristic attitude as those from the ' Boxer' rhyton found Boxers
at Hagia Triada,3 the figures on which, indeed, and that on the steatite rhyton.
relief and sealing from Knossos 4 make it possible to restore it (Fig. 17, a, 3, c).
All these parallel examples may be safely referred to the closing Middle
Minoan Period, and the building in which these painted stucco remains
occurred also dates from the same epoch.
Together with these were found pieces showing the skirts of a series of
1 See below, Coloured PI. XXI facing p. 216.
2 J. Hatzidakis, Ti;Aicr<ro9 MivmiKij (Apx-
'£<£., 1912), PI. XIX. Unfortunately the
impress of guiding thread line has been repro-
duced in such a way as to look like a rope in
front of Fig. 17, a.
3 P. of M., i, p. 690, Fig. 511 ; A. Mosso,
Escursioni ?iel Mediterraneo e gli Scavi di
Creta (ed. 2), p. 176, and Fig. 89; H. R.
Hall, Aegean Archaeology, p. 60, PI. XVI.
See on the discovery F. Halbherr, Rendicontl
delta R. Accad. del Lincei, vol. xiv (1905),
p. 365 seqq. The helmet in Fig. 17, c, is
restored from this. On the fragment of the
steatite vessel from Knossos, however, the
boxer's head is bare.
4 P. ofM., i, p. 689, Figs. 509, 510.
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