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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ACROBATIC FEATS

artist seems to be of a kind pronounced impossible by modern champions of
the sport. The fresco design shown in Fig. 144 does not, as we shall see,
stand alone, and the successive acts that it seems to imply find at least
partial confirmation in a clay seal-impression (Fig. 149, below), and in the

Fig. 145. Section of Design showing Female Acrobat raising Herself by the

Bull's Horn.

bronze group (Fig. 155), where the acrobatic feat is illustrated by the diagram-
matic figure (Fig. 156).

But if the feat as thus logically developed would seem to transcend
human skill, it is equally true that such scenes as are illustrated by a series
of scenes on gems in which the bull wrestler seems to lift the whole mighty