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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RAIMENT IN FORM OF GOLD'PLATES.

Gold
plates of
loin-
clothing' :
parallel to
'Goddess
of Sports'.

Yet the evidence of the gold
loin-ciothing, which in this instance has
been preserved, excludes the idea of .
the boy here modelled having yet fully
entered the Minoan man's estate.
The characteristic ' Libyan sheath 'T
was clearly not worn. Indeed, it looks
as if the raiment here used, repre-
sented by two pieces of gold plating for
front and back, was much the same as
that which had originally covered the
same parts of the body in the case of
the younger figure and of which, in that
case, we have the evidence in a central
pin-hole in the small of the back and
two others above the hips.

On the evidence now before us the
original loin-clothing of the latter is re-
stored in gold plating in Fig. 393, />, c
above, the diadem being- also shown.

Gold-plates of Loin-clothing: Parallel
to Garb of' Goddess of Sports'.

In the case of the boy-God de-
scribed in the previous Volume the
gold-plates that had originally clothed
the waist and loins had disappeared.
But an instance of a nude ivory image
elaborately attired in thin gold plating-
has been given above2 in the case of the
' Goddess of the Sports', who, as will be
seen,combined a female corset with the
belt and adult male clothing, including
the penistache, of a Minoan taureador.
The plating of the girdle has been
lost in the present case, as well as the
cap that seems once to have covered
the crown and back of the head.
1 See above, p. 23, Fig. 12. - See p. 29, Fi

Fig. 396. Back View of Ivos
without the gold loin 11

1 4.

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