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 3): The great transitional age in the northern and eastern sections of the Palace (London, 1930)

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to the flounces of one or more of such seated figures. The narrow almost Pairs of
imperceptibly undulating band, Fig. 23, exhibits on its blue ground a row utes-

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Fig. 23. Embroidered Band with Flutes.

of three pairs of flutes attached to one another by some kind of strings.
What seem to be parts of a bone flute were found at Mycenae,1 but the

best evidence of its

Minoan use is sup-
plied by the Hagia
Triada sarcopha-
gus. A youthful
ministrant with
long locks is there.
seen blowing
double pipes of
more elongated
form above a sacri-
ficed bull, laid on
a table with his
limbs closely bound
together in the
Egyptian manner,
while his life-blood
pours into a vessel
placed below,2 Fig.
24. The sacrifice
in this case would
have had to do with
funereal rites: on
the other hand in the Iliad, we find av\oi played, together with lyres, at

1 Schliemann, Mycenae, pp. 78, 79, and 2 R.Paribeni, // Sarcofago difinlodiHaghia

Figs. 128, 129, 130 a. Triada {Mon. Ant., xix, 1908), PI. II, and

Flutes in
sacri-
ficial
scene on
H. Triada
sarco-
phagus.

Fig. 24. Sacrificiaj

Ministrant playing Flute
Sarcophagus.

H. Triada