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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o CLASSICAL GREEK SURVIVAL OF MINOAN TYPE

Over a thousand years here separate the execution of the Greek and the
Minoan designs. But the type itself is essentially that which had spon-
taneously developed on the soil of Minoan Crete at a still more remote
epoch.

Fig. 491. Lion seizing Stag on Thisbe Gold Signet (f). c. 1500 B.C.

Fig. 491 bis. Amygdaloid Bead-seal (dark
Sard), Crete, 1934, Sangiorgi Coll.

Fig. 493. Sard Scarab, Gela (Terrj
nova), Sicily.

Fig. 492. Didrachm of Velia
(IVth Cent., b.c). (?-)

Fig. 494, Silver Stater of Akanthos.
VIth Cent., b.c. (f)