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)

8H CHARIOT TYPE C ON TIRYNS FRESCO

i vino- n team of Griffins on one of the end panels
Minoan Goddess, is seen drvn a tean ^

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Fig. 804. Tiryns Fresco (Hunting Scene with Lady Drivers) showing
Chariot of Type C with Posterior Bow, as on the Knossian Tablets.

poorly. But the wild-goat had supplied the oldest exercises of Cretan
engravers, and the powerful rendering of the subject in this work is one of
its perfected results. The details of the harness are also well brought out,
including the yoke, collar, and girth. In the older form of chariot, as
seen on the Knossos gem, Fio-. 79
Fig. 790, the girth is quite separate from th

s—, - ig. «.v5, and again on the Thisbe gold bead,

we see an improved development, both the colh

'• collar. Here, however,
r and girth being brought