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CHARIOT TYPE B ON GOLD BEAD-SEAL, THISBE 817
suo-o-estive parallel in the case of the engraved gold beads of the Third Triplet of
Shaft Grave at Mycenae,1 one of which depicts a warrior stabbing a lion ^"?,on
ind another a lion wounded. It looks as if there may have been catenas of group.
Fig. 79G. Chariot or Type B on Gold Bead-seal from Thisbe Treasure.
heroic subjects in the case of bead necklaces, some of the intaglios being
strung together, so as to illustrate a continuous cycle.
All three of the large bead-seals of the Thisbe group depict scenes
of violent action. On this the horses have been brought to a sudden stop
by the onslaught of the youthful bowman in front, and the head of the
nearer horse is thrown back, thus concealing the end of the pole with the
yoke. Here the pole, though we may suppose it to have run up from
the base of the car, runs forward from its upper margin, and is joined by
another solid piece connected by its upper framework, the two being bound
together by a thong.2 This arrangement, in fact, comes very near the
suggests, indeed, that we may have to do
with some version of the saga in which Orestes
and Oedipus were one and the same person.
1 Schliemann, Mycenae, p. 174, Figs. 253,
255. Karo, Schachlgralier von Mykenai, Atlas,
H-XXIV, 33, 34.
Complete abstention from any engage-
ment in outside controversy has been imposed
has been already vindicated above in its crucial
aspects (pp. 5 r 5, 516), but separate notice may
be taken here of the attempt of Commandant
Lefebvre de Noailles in an article in Arethusc
(Ap. 1926, p. 63 seqq.), entitled Sur que/ques
intailks attributes a Pe'poque minoeniie, where
the supposed falsity of the gold bead with the
chariot scene is made the basis of a condemna-
on me as a condition of progress with this tion of the whole find. A simple statement
Vork. This—not any want of courtesy—has of the views there expressed will perhaps
prevented my dealing with adverse criticism till suffice. The very existence of Chariot-type
the points concerned had been reached by the B, the long antecedent history of which has
text. The authenticity of the Thisbe" intaglios here been so fully illustrated, seems to have
suo-o-estive parallel in the case of the engraved gold beads of the Third Triplet of
Shaft Grave at Mycenae,1 one of which depicts a warrior stabbing a lion ^"?,on
ind another a lion wounded. It looks as if there may have been catenas of group.
Fig. 79G. Chariot or Type B on Gold Bead-seal from Thisbe Treasure.
heroic subjects in the case of bead necklaces, some of the intaglios being
strung together, so as to illustrate a continuous cycle.
All three of the large bead-seals of the Thisbe group depict scenes
of violent action. On this the horses have been brought to a sudden stop
by the onslaught of the youthful bowman in front, and the head of the
nearer horse is thrown back, thus concealing the end of the pole with the
yoke. Here the pole, though we may suppose it to have run up from
the base of the car, runs forward from its upper margin, and is joined by
another solid piece connected by its upper framework, the two being bound
together by a thong.2 This arrangement, in fact, comes very near the
suggests, indeed, that we may have to do
with some version of the saga in which Orestes
and Oedipus were one and the same person.
1 Schliemann, Mycenae, p. 174, Figs. 253,
255. Karo, Schachlgralier von Mykenai, Atlas,
H-XXIV, 33, 34.
Complete abstention from any engage-
ment in outside controversy has been imposed
has been already vindicated above in its crucial
aspects (pp. 5 r 5, 516), but separate notice may
be taken here of the attempt of Commandant
Lefebvre de Noailles in an article in Arethusc
(Ap. 1926, p. 63 seqq.), entitled Sur que/ques
intailks attributes a Pe'poque minoeniie, where
the supposed falsity of the gold bead with the
chariot scene is made the basis of a condemna-
on me as a condition of progress with this tion of the whole find. A simple statement
Vork. This—not any want of courtesy—has of the views there expressed will perhaps
prevented my dealing with adverse criticism till suffice. The very existence of Chariot-type
the points concerned had been reached by the B, the long antecedent history of which has
text. The authenticity of the Thisbe" intaglios here been so fully illustrated, seems to have