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398 GABERDINED GARB ORIENTALIZING SYMPTOM
Gaber-
dined
garb clue
to orienta-
lizing
in flu-
Similar
vestment
seen in
' Palan-
quin
Fresco '.
relation to the hierarchical system in vogue in the Palace in the last epoch
of its history.
The exalted relationship in which we must place the personages
of these frescoes lends a special importance to their exceptional dress
covering the whole person, a form of costume which, as already pointed out is
entirely out of keeping with Minoan tradition. But, as will be shown, the
exotic and unquestionably orientalizing character of these long robes fits in
with other evidences of the intrusion during the last Palace period of other
elements of an allied class from the same Eastern quarter. The intimate rela-
tions with Egypt were not broken off, but the Age in question undoubtedly
corresponds with an epoch of renewed intensive influence from the
Syrian side, recalling the cultural and religious wave which at the very
beginning of .the Age of Palaces had reached Crete from the W.estwardly
extended dominions of the founder of the First Babylonian Empire. In
the present case we have largely to take into account the reactions of the
growing connexion of the Minoan world with the, Syro-Anatolian regions
through Cyprus, where the process of actual colonization was already
beginning, and perhaps, indeed, in the wake of contemporary commercial
plantations on the Mainland coast opposite to it.
Already, indeed, in the ' Palanquin Fresco', connected with the
Entrance Corridor from the South, and described in the Second Volume ot
this Work,1 it seemed permissible to recognize the operation of this influence
in the white-stoled ministers, whose vestments are distinguished by the
dark band running down from the shoulder, and recalling the cuivus ot
Roman and Etruscan usage. (See Fig. 332 a, b.) -
The central figure of this composition, like those of the other fresco,
similarly clad and seated on a folding stool, is borne aloft, and may well be
identified with a Minoan Papa Re in his sedia gestatoria. The oblique
wrapping of these stoles also shows a distinct analogy with the robes
depicted in the Camp-Stool Frescoes, and the general style of the designs,
including the summary execution, marks, as already observed, more ot les
contemporary work.3 The ceremonial transport of the Priest-king" along
1 P. of M., ii, Pt. II, pp. 770-3, and
Figs. 502, 503; see, too, A. E., Knossss,
Report ioor, p. 20. These remains are there
compared with the ' Camp-Stool1 Frescoes.
- Two fragments of this are here slightly
developed. (Cf. op. at, p. 771.)
3 The stratum in which these fresco frag-
ments were found contained a clay ma n
with a reproduction of a signet type—Use
L M. I a date-showing a libation vess
offered to the Goddess (see Fig. 331, P- 393
above). We have here an indication ol a
that cannot be much later
L. M. I a.
tlUl<-'*llwl* r
■ than the close ot
Gaber-
dined
garb clue
to orienta-
lizing
in flu-
Similar
vestment
seen in
' Palan-
quin
Fresco '.
relation to the hierarchical system in vogue in the Palace in the last epoch
of its history.
The exalted relationship in which we must place the personages
of these frescoes lends a special importance to their exceptional dress
covering the whole person, a form of costume which, as already pointed out is
entirely out of keeping with Minoan tradition. But, as will be shown, the
exotic and unquestionably orientalizing character of these long robes fits in
with other evidences of the intrusion during the last Palace period of other
elements of an allied class from the same Eastern quarter. The intimate rela-
tions with Egypt were not broken off, but the Age in question undoubtedly
corresponds with an epoch of renewed intensive influence from the
Syrian side, recalling the cultural and religious wave which at the very
beginning of .the Age of Palaces had reached Crete from the W.estwardly
extended dominions of the founder of the First Babylonian Empire. In
the present case we have largely to take into account the reactions of the
growing connexion of the Minoan world with the, Syro-Anatolian regions
through Cyprus, where the process of actual colonization was already
beginning, and perhaps, indeed, in the wake of contemporary commercial
plantations on the Mainland coast opposite to it.
Already, indeed, in the ' Palanquin Fresco', connected with the
Entrance Corridor from the South, and described in the Second Volume ot
this Work,1 it seemed permissible to recognize the operation of this influence
in the white-stoled ministers, whose vestments are distinguished by the
dark band running down from the shoulder, and recalling the cuivus ot
Roman and Etruscan usage. (See Fig. 332 a, b.) -
The central figure of this composition, like those of the other fresco,
similarly clad and seated on a folding stool, is borne aloft, and may well be
identified with a Minoan Papa Re in his sedia gestatoria. The oblique
wrapping of these stoles also shows a distinct analogy with the robes
depicted in the Camp-Stool Frescoes, and the general style of the designs,
including the summary execution, marks, as already observed, more ot les
contemporary work.3 The ceremonial transport of the Priest-king" along
1 P. of M., ii, Pt. II, pp. 770-3, and
Figs. 502, 503; see, too, A. E., Knossss,
Report ioor, p. 20. These remains are there
compared with the ' Camp-Stool1 Frescoes.
- Two fragments of this are here slightly
developed. (Cf. op. at, p. 771.)
3 The stratum in which these fresco frag-
ments were found contained a clay ma n
with a reproduction of a signet type—Use
L M. I a date-showing a libation vess
offered to the Goddess (see Fig. 331, P- 393
above). We have here an indication ol a
that cannot be much later
L. M. I a.
tlUl<-'*llwl* r
■ than the close ot