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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knotted tufts. To a certain extent it finds an Egyptian parallel in the
nlumes that, from Amenhotep Ill's time onwards, decorate the backs of the
horses' heads and become such a usual fashion in Ramesside times. These,
as has been noted, were copied on the Cypro-Minoan chariot groups.

Manes in
charac-
teristic
tufts:
also L. M.
Ill exam-
ples at
Tiryns
and My-
cenae.

Fig. 810. Horse's Head on Fresco Frag-
ment : ' Men's Megaron ', Mycenae.

Fig. 811. Horse's Head from
Hunting Fresco : Tiryns.

These knots of hair are well illustrated on the painted fragment showing

a horse's head from the ' Men's Megaron ' at Mycenae,1 Fig. 810, and another

good example occurs in the case of a similar head on a fragment of the

Stag-hunting fresco from Tiryns (Fig. 811) - which has also preserved our best

materials for certain details in the structure of chariots such as those seen

on the tablets. On the painted sarcophagus, again, from Hagia Triada,3

the knots are visible, though not so distinctly rendered. This method of

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gathering Up the horse's mane into separate tufts must, indeed, be regarded

a-"> a distinctively Minoan fashion. It reappears on the Cypro-Minoan

'kraters' from Enkomi.

At Mycenae, where the surface tint has not been darkened by the

action of fire, the horse appears to have been of a deep bay colour and at

1 Tsountas, 'Et/,. 'ApX., 18S7, PI. XI, and Fig. 47, and pp. 103, 104, Fragment 125.
P- l65. 3 R. Paribeni, IIsarmfago dipinlo di Hagia

PL XIV, p. no, Triada (PI. iii, Mm. Ant, xix).

* Rodemvaldt, Tiryns.