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 4,2): Camp-stool Fresco, long-robed priests and beneficent genii [...] (London, 1935)

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this line of access has itself greatly gained in importance from the recent Other
discover)' of the actual Temple Tomb of the House of Minos lying directly parallels,
on the roadway that started from the foot of the Southern slope.

In a more general way the long robes of the votaries of the ' Camp-

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Fig. 332 a, b. Fragments of ' Palanquin Fresco' showing White-stoled
Priestly Figures.

Stool Fresco' may also be compared with those of certain ' gaberdined'
figures—there, too, of both sexes—seen in the ' Procession .Fresco', and
the similar costumes of the male and female ministrants engaged in the
ritual scenes of the Hagia Triada Sarcophagus.

But such long-robed presentations of the Minoan Priest-kings and
their entourage are themselves quite foreign to their traditional impersona-
tions.

The earliest glimpse that we obtain of those who held dominion
in the Palace Sanctuary of Knqssos is supplied by the remarkable male