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SURVIVAL OF 'DUAL' FORM IN GEOMETRIC GREECE 825
together above the horses' necks near the attachment to the pole—a
convero-ing method also found in later Assyrian and Persian examples.
A similar arrangment is visible in the end panel of the Hagia Triada
sarcophagus, depicting the chariot and horses.1 Unfortunately the front of
the horses is largely defective in the Tiryns fresco, which like the sarco-
phagus belongs to the epoch directly following the date of the fall of the
Knossian Palace. In other respects this illustration, taken from the stag- Dua!
hunting scene of the later Palace there—as given in Professor Rodenwaldt's 0f Tiryns
restoration2—supplies the best detailed view of the 'dual' form of chariot 1,resco-
itself (Fig. 804). The wheels show an outer tire, wound round for extra
durability, with what may have been wire and metal bands. The projecting
point at the back of the floor is paralleled by some of the chariot designs
on the tablets and by that on a Mycenae grave stela. The spring of the pole
from the line of floor is clearly visible, and, above, what resembles rather a
lio-ht rod than a thong running from the upper edge of the front. As in
the case of other examples, little tassel-like appendages hang clown from this.
These, as we have seen, are clearly of a purely decorative nature, and do
not imply any connexion between the upper element and the pole. In the
case of the Avdu chariot, Fig. 803, where the appendages have at first
sight a somewhat solid look, they are seen to hang down beneath the bodies
of the wild-goats.
This dual form of chariot belonging to Type C, which as we see makes Survival
its first appearance at Knossos about 1450 B.C., continued to be well repre- chariots
sented in the two-wheeled class of the Greek Geometrical Period. On ?fTyPeC
111 early
Dipylon vases the upturned ends of the chariot poles are joined to the Greek
frontal breast-work or amftyx by a rod or thong,3 and a similar arrangement
survives in Archaic Greek black-figure vase-paintings. The Minoan form
of chariot had, therefore, a vogue of about a thousand years' duration in
the Aegean world. The elegant posterior curve and a certain duality of
structure continued indeed to characterize Greek chariots of a still later
Age.
1 R. Paribent, II sarcqfago dipinto di Hagia pp. 139, 140 and Fig. 33, and cp. lb., pp.
Triada, PI. id (Man. Ant., xh). 140, 141 and Fig. 34 (chariot of Zeus on the
Tiryns, ii, p. 98, Fig. 40. Francois vase).
5 See Helbig, Hamerisdie Epos (18S7 ed.),
together above the horses' necks near the attachment to the pole—a
convero-ing method also found in later Assyrian and Persian examples.
A similar arrangment is visible in the end panel of the Hagia Triada
sarcophagus, depicting the chariot and horses.1 Unfortunately the front of
the horses is largely defective in the Tiryns fresco, which like the sarco-
phagus belongs to the epoch directly following the date of the fall of the
Knossian Palace. In other respects this illustration, taken from the stag- Dua!
hunting scene of the later Palace there—as given in Professor Rodenwaldt's 0f Tiryns
restoration2—supplies the best detailed view of the 'dual' form of chariot 1,resco-
itself (Fig. 804). The wheels show an outer tire, wound round for extra
durability, with what may have been wire and metal bands. The projecting
point at the back of the floor is paralleled by some of the chariot designs
on the tablets and by that on a Mycenae grave stela. The spring of the pole
from the line of floor is clearly visible, and, above, what resembles rather a
lio-ht rod than a thong running from the upper edge of the front. As in
the case of other examples, little tassel-like appendages hang clown from this.
These, as we have seen, are clearly of a purely decorative nature, and do
not imply any connexion between the upper element and the pole. In the
case of the Avdu chariot, Fig. 803, where the appendages have at first
sight a somewhat solid look, they are seen to hang down beneath the bodies
of the wild-goats.
This dual form of chariot belonging to Type C, which as we see makes Survival
its first appearance at Knossos about 1450 B.C., continued to be well repre- chariots
sented in the two-wheeled class of the Greek Geometrical Period. On ?fTyPeC
111 early
Dipylon vases the upturned ends of the chariot poles are joined to the Greek
frontal breast-work or amftyx by a rod or thong,3 and a similar arrangement
survives in Archaic Greek black-figure vase-paintings. The Minoan form
of chariot had, therefore, a vogue of about a thousand years' duration in
the Aegean world. The elegant posterior curve and a certain duality of
structure continued indeed to characterize Greek chariots of a still later
Age.
1 R. Paribent, II sarcqfago dipinto di Hagia pp. 139, 140 and Fig. 33, and cp. lb., pp.
Triada, PI. id (Man. Ant., xh). 140, 141 and Fig. 34 (chariot of Zeus on the
Tiryns, ii, p. 98, Fig. 40. Francois vase).
5 See Helbig, Hamerisdie Epos (18S7 ed.),