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25o 'EGYPTO-MINOAN' MOTIVES ON MYCENAE STELAE
extending to the North and North-East of the Aegean. The spiral
system itself, though deeply rooted in the Cyclades, is quite excep-
_________________________tional amongst Early1 and even
Middle Helladic remains, and
on the face of it, it does not
seem probable that a lapidary
sculptor, working amidst thor-
oughly Minoized surroundings,
should have taken one part of
his decorative motive from
these, and sought the others in
some vague indigenous non-
Minoan source.2
Fig. 18S. a, Seal Pattern (C-Scrolls) on
Stela VI, at Mycenae ; b, Running Pattern on
same Stela.
Features of M. M. Ill' Marine'
Style taken over on Stela of
Shaft Grave V.
Of special interest in its
relation to the ' marine ' style
of the M. M. Ill Palace is the
stela, Fig. 189, found above the
Fifth Shaft Grave.3 The main
personal theme here is of a
martial kind. A man in a chariot with a triangular dirk slung by his side
and holding a long spear, seems to have overthrown another warrior wearing
a crested helmet, who lies beneath the legs of the galloping horse. The
chariot itself is of a characteristic Minoan form. The pole that runs up
from the front of the chariot floor is linked to the upper part of its
breastwork'1 and its recurved end is seen behind the near horses neck.
A part of the girth is also visible and the loop of the knotted cord by
which it was fastened to the yoke. The fallen warrior lies, apparently.
1 Incised spiraliform decoration appears on
part of the rim of a fiithos from Zygouries
(C. Blegen, Zygouries, p. i2r, Fig. 114, 6).
As Dr. Blegen remarks (p. 122): ' the spiral
is, to say the least, exceedingly rare among
the decorative motives of the Karly Helladic
Period \
' This is what seems to be intended by
Dr. K. Midler's ' alteinheimische Dekorations-
kunst' (Fruhmykenische Reliefs, p. 2S8).
s This figure is taken from an origin
photograph of Schliemann's.
< The point of attachment, however, see
here to be near the horses' hind-quarters,un 1 -
the Later Minoan arrangement.
extending to the North and North-East of the Aegean. The spiral
system itself, though deeply rooted in the Cyclades, is quite excep-
_________________________tional amongst Early1 and even
Middle Helladic remains, and
on the face of it, it does not
seem probable that a lapidary
sculptor, working amidst thor-
oughly Minoized surroundings,
should have taken one part of
his decorative motive from
these, and sought the others in
some vague indigenous non-
Minoan source.2
Fig. 18S. a, Seal Pattern (C-Scrolls) on
Stela VI, at Mycenae ; b, Running Pattern on
same Stela.
Features of M. M. Ill' Marine'
Style taken over on Stela of
Shaft Grave V.
Of special interest in its
relation to the ' marine ' style
of the M. M. Ill Palace is the
stela, Fig. 189, found above the
Fifth Shaft Grave.3 The main
personal theme here is of a
martial kind. A man in a chariot with a triangular dirk slung by his side
and holding a long spear, seems to have overthrown another warrior wearing
a crested helmet, who lies beneath the legs of the galloping horse. The
chariot itself is of a characteristic Minoan form. The pole that runs up
from the front of the chariot floor is linked to the upper part of its
breastwork'1 and its recurved end is seen behind the near horses neck.
A part of the girth is also visible and the loop of the knotted cord by
which it was fastened to the yoke. The fallen warrior lies, apparently.
1 Incised spiraliform decoration appears on
part of the rim of a fiithos from Zygouries
(C. Blegen, Zygouries, p. i2r, Fig. 114, 6).
As Dr. Blegen remarks (p. 122): ' the spiral
is, to say the least, exceedingly rare among
the decorative motives of the Karly Helladic
Period \
' This is what seems to be intended by
Dr. K. Midler's ' alteinheimische Dekorations-
kunst' (Fruhmykenische Reliefs, p. 2S8).
s This figure is taken from an origin
photograph of Schliemann's.
< The point of attachment, however, see
here to be near the horses' hind-quarters,un 1 -
the Later Minoan arrangement.