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)

LONG-ROBED MINISTRANTS

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a standing figure of the Goddess wearing a kind of curved tiara between
similar lion guardians. The ' Sacral Knot' appears in the field.

...... ... . Long robes of the same

kind were worn by male as
well as female ministrants.
Both the girl votary who
pours the libations between
the sacred Double Axes on i.ong-
the Hagia Triada Sarcopha- m;nis:
gusand the lyre-playingyouth trilnls'
of the same ritual scene wear
this dress, as well as another
male figure from the later
Palace there.1 The appear-
ance of the lower borders of
similar long robes on two
male figures of the ' Proces-
sion Fresco' has suggested
their restoration as players,
respectively, of the flute and
lyre. We know that the Se-
mitic lyre or kuiuor—the
Greek Ki9dpa—is inseparable
from the name of Kinyras,
the Priest-king of Paphos,
beloved of the Cyprian God-
dess. ' As a seer and culture-
hero, beautiful and master of
the lyre, he would naturally
appear to the Greeks (who
brought him into actual com-

Seated Figure of Boy Votary (partly
completed).

radeship with Apollo) as a double of the Kit liar oedos.' -

Although it may not be easy in the case of individual examples to find
an exact parallel on the East Mediterranean side, it will be generally

1 See P. of A/., ii, Pt. II, p. S36, Fig. 552,
a, b. The lyres here depicted—though ulti-
mately of Mesopotamia!! descent—contain
an Egyptian element, as is shown by the
lotus flower of /-■, combined with the Ibex
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heads. A form of lyre in the hands of a
female player from an Egyptian wall-painting,
inserted loc. dl., Fig. 553, proves this to
demonstration.

! P. o/M., ii, Pt. II, pp. S37, S3S.