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WARRIORS ATTACKING WALLS
83
they belong was in dense formation—an arrangement, moreover, which suited
the 'shorthand' method of the Miniature fresco painter. A separate figure
of a youthful warrior resting his left arm on a spear is depicted in Fig. 46
on a slightly smaller scale, against a white ground. His long locks of hair,
which fall over both shoulders,
descend almost to the knees in
front, and a clear white field is
seen before and behind him on
the fragment presenting this de-
sign. In the restored sketch,1
Fig. 46, he is made, in accord-
ance with the slight indication
preserved, to raise his right
hand, like an officer giving some
command to his troop. In some
respects his attitude resembles
that of the ' Young Prince ' on
the Hagia Triada Cup.2
In addition to the fragments
displaying light-armed troops—
who may compare with the
spearmen and bowmen of the earlier ' Town Mosaic'—there must be also,
in all probability, assigned to this composition a fragment, Fig. 47,
belonging to an architectural subject, but which does not seem to have any
connexion with the companion panels. This, indeed, was at one time
thought to supply a missing section of the entablature of the central
compartment of the little 'Temple' between the Grand Stands as seen
in the Coloured Plate XVI. The sacral horns above, the general coloration,
the intervening white band, and the red and yellow bars of the border
above are obvious points of correspondence. But, as already shown, this
identification with the missing section of the Shrine cannot be maintained,3
and there is every reason to suppose that the. entablature of its central
compartment corresponded with that of its wings. Nor, as a matter of fact,
Youthful
spear-
Fig. 46. Miniature Fresco Figure of Youthful
Officer ; Miniature Deposit, Knossos.
Frag-
ment of
building :
probably
belong-
ing to
same
subject.
1 By Monsieur E. Gillie'ron, fils.
2 See P. ofM., ii, Pt. II, p. 791, Fig. 516.
3 In my original publication in Myc. Tree
and Pillar Ctdt (/. M.S.,™, 1901, p. 193,
Fig. 66) the entablature of the central cella of
the little Temple was rightly restored. In the
first reconstitution of the fresco by Monsieur
G 2
Gillie'ron, pere, the fragment, Fig. 47, was in-
troduced. The error, exposed by Dr. Roden-
waldt, has been corrected in the revised
restoration of the fresco in the Candia Museum.
The Coloured Plate XVI also shows the proper
reconstruction of the entablature.
83
they belong was in dense formation—an arrangement, moreover, which suited
the 'shorthand' method of the Miniature fresco painter. A separate figure
of a youthful warrior resting his left arm on a spear is depicted in Fig. 46
on a slightly smaller scale, against a white ground. His long locks of hair,
which fall over both shoulders,
descend almost to the knees in
front, and a clear white field is
seen before and behind him on
the fragment presenting this de-
sign. In the restored sketch,1
Fig. 46, he is made, in accord-
ance with the slight indication
preserved, to raise his right
hand, like an officer giving some
command to his troop. In some
respects his attitude resembles
that of the ' Young Prince ' on
the Hagia Triada Cup.2
In addition to the fragments
displaying light-armed troops—
who may compare with the
spearmen and bowmen of the earlier ' Town Mosaic'—there must be also,
in all probability, assigned to this composition a fragment, Fig. 47,
belonging to an architectural subject, but which does not seem to have any
connexion with the companion panels. This, indeed, was at one time
thought to supply a missing section of the entablature of the central
compartment of the little 'Temple' between the Grand Stands as seen
in the Coloured Plate XVI. The sacral horns above, the general coloration,
the intervening white band, and the red and yellow bars of the border
above are obvious points of correspondence. But, as already shown, this
identification with the missing section of the Shrine cannot be maintained,3
and there is every reason to suppose that the. entablature of its central
compartment corresponded with that of its wings. Nor, as a matter of fact,
Youthful
spear-
Fig. 46. Miniature Fresco Figure of Youthful
Officer ; Miniature Deposit, Knossos.
Frag-
ment of
building :
probably
belong-
ing to
same
subject.
1 By Monsieur E. Gillie'ron, fils.
2 See P. ofM., ii, Pt. II, p. 791, Fig. 516.
3 In my original publication in Myc. Tree
and Pillar Ctdt (/. M.S.,™, 1901, p. 193,
Fig. 66) the entablature of the central cella of
the little Temple was rightly restored. In the
first reconstitution of the fresco by Monsieur
G 2
Gillie'ron, pere, the fragment, Fig. 47, was in-
troduced. The error, exposed by Dr. Roden-
waldt, has been corrected in the revised
restoration of the fresco in the Candia Museum.
The Coloured Plate XVI also shows the proper
reconstruction of the entablature.