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Men iii
short-
si cevcd
jackets.
Long
robes of
both
sexes.
3S6 LONG ROBES COMMON TO BOTH SEXES
D of the companion group, differ from the ' Sacral Knots ' of the femaie
figure. With the exception of these two features, however, there is a close
agreement in the dress of the figures of both sexes. They are draped in
long robes of an
unwonted kind,
reaching to the
ankles. This dress
terminates above
in short sleeves,
recalling those of
the usual female
jackets, as seen on
the figurines of the
Goddess in the
Temple Reposi-
tories and else-
where. Similar
short sleeves, in-
deed, appear on
the forepart of a
male personage
seen on a painted
stucco fragment in the South of the Palace (Fig. 320), and this element in
costume was known, therefore, to Minoan Crete as well as to the Mainland
regions, where it becomes general in Mycenaean Art.
Simple bands here take the place of the usual close-fitting belts, and
the long skirts are composed rather of broad diagonal bands than of flounces.
Such a garb may well have been worn over the normal belt and loin-clothing
of the men's costume.
Taken as.a whole, the costume has certainly a feminine appearance,
and the assimilation of the dress in both sexes may be taken to have a ritual
significance. A parallel example has already been supplied in the case of
the bull-sports of the Palace arena, where the girl performers attired them-
selves in the most characteristic articles of the men's clothing, including the
Minoan equivalent of the ' Libyan sheath '. So, too, the Goddess herself,
as ' Lady of the Sports', is depicted in her chryselephantine image with her
loins clad in the same male fashion as that adopted by the crirl performers.
Of the significance of these long robes as an evidence of the intrusion
at this time of Syrian influences more will be said below.
Fig. 320.
Part of Male Personage clad in Short-sleeved
Jacket: Knossos.
short-
si cevcd
jackets.
Long
robes of
both
sexes.
3S6 LONG ROBES COMMON TO BOTH SEXES
D of the companion group, differ from the ' Sacral Knots ' of the femaie
figure. With the exception of these two features, however, there is a close
agreement in the dress of the figures of both sexes. They are draped in
long robes of an
unwonted kind,
reaching to the
ankles. This dress
terminates above
in short sleeves,
recalling those of
the usual female
jackets, as seen on
the figurines of the
Goddess in the
Temple Reposi-
tories and else-
where. Similar
short sleeves, in-
deed, appear on
the forepart of a
male personage
seen on a painted
stucco fragment in the South of the Palace (Fig. 320), and this element in
costume was known, therefore, to Minoan Crete as well as to the Mainland
regions, where it becomes general in Mycenaean Art.
Simple bands here take the place of the usual close-fitting belts, and
the long skirts are composed rather of broad diagonal bands than of flounces.
Such a garb may well have been worn over the normal belt and loin-clothing
of the men's costume.
Taken as.a whole, the costume has certainly a feminine appearance,
and the assimilation of the dress in both sexes may be taken to have a ritual
significance. A parallel example has already been supplied in the case of
the bull-sports of the Palace arena, where the girl performers attired them-
selves in the most characteristic articles of the men's clothing, including the
Minoan equivalent of the ' Libyan sheath '. So, too, the Goddess herself,
as ' Lady of the Sports', is depicted in her chryselephantine image with her
loins clad in the same male fashion as that adopted by the crirl performers.
Of the significance of these long robes as an evidence of the intrusion
at this time of Syrian influences more will be said below.
Fig. 320.
Part of Male Personage clad in Short-sleeved
Jacket: Knossos.