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 (Index) (London, 1936)

SEAL-STONES

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SEAL-STONES

Seal-stones, L.M. la, Amygdaloids II (cont.)
(scheme common in succeeding epoch),
IV. 567 (Fig. 541 b). Fine work

cornelian, Kastri, E. Crete: hunter las-
soing horned ewe while suckling lamb:
man wears short tunic (double flounced),
iv. 569 (Fig. 543)
Lentoids. Red jasper, man wearing short
double-flounced tunic (early characteris-
tic), driving oxen, IV. 564 (Fig. 535)

haematite, Knossos, butterfly over papyrus
spray, Argonaut and flying duck—'Life
in the Air, Sea, and Land', iv. 1018 (Fig.
966: tail-piece); ('knob-winged' butter-
fly resembling that of the Priest King
Fresco (L.M. la): papyrus spray as
House of Frescoes, 11. 788 (Fig. 514))'

chalcedony, clouded red, Athens, lion
seizing fallow deer, executed with great
finesse, iv. 532 (Fig. 481) and Suppl.
PI. LV. e

banded agate, Argive Heraion, bull's head
facing double axe above, on either side
sacred vestments, 1.434, 435 (Fig. 312 c).
Perhaps M.M. IIIA
Clay Sealings from L.M. la stratum, S.W.
Basement Deposit.2 Clay matrix of the
bezel of M.M. Ill signet-ring (see
above), 11. 767 (Fig. 498); impressions of
found in the late Palatial deposits, ib.
and see below

oval impression of 'the Young Minotaur',
seated on campstool, with hands in atti-
tude of adoration (cf. Contemporary
Frescoes); couchant rams apparently
offered to him by male figure, 11. 763

(Fig- 49')

youth holding cord attached to two seated
mastiffs, 11. 765 (Fig. 495); guardian
hounds of Cretan Goddess Diktynna, 11.
765, 766

female figure luring swallows with another
attached to a string, rocky border below
and two conventional lilies above, 11. 766

(Fig- 497)
collared bitch standing r. and looking back,
11. 764, 765 (Fig. 493) (referred there,

Seal-stones, L.M. la, Clay Sealings from L.M.
la stratum, S.W. Basement Deposit (cont)
from fine style, to L.M. la stratum of
this deposit); of frequent recurrence,
however (apparently from the same seal),
in the late Palatial 'Archives' deposit, iv.
603 (Fig. 597 b;'); cf. iv. 560. (This flat
cylinder may therefore have remained in
use to L.M. II)

L.M. lb:

General observations: principal vogue in this
epoch of type of Minoan Genius (de-
rived from Hippopotamus Goddess Ta-
Urt), iv. 430seqq.; and of long-robed
princely or sacerdotal personages, not-
ably at Knossos, iv. 404 seqq.; Scenes
illustrating heroic saga now appear, in.
513 seqq.; Oriental 'antithetic' schemes
(derived from cylinders) becoms fre-
quent: illustrations of contemporary
intaglio work supplied by 'Thisbe
Treasure' (from later sepulchral deposit):
see especially iv. 513-16, 816, 817 and
note 4, 818; for its genuineness, iv. 515—
17, 817 n. 2; chronological equations
supplied by series of bead-seals from
the 'Vapheio Tomb' with L.M. lb
pottery. Flat cylinders are now rare (iv.
501). A peculiar class, characteristic of
this epoch, that now makes its appear-
ance are the proportionately thick and
elongated amygdaloids of the 'grooved
back' type (iv. 495). This type copied
in gold in the Thisbe series (1 v. 513, 514)
The L.M. lb ceramic style is shown
to correspond clearly with the reign of
Thothmes III (iv. 276), c. 1500-1450B.C.
(see 'Pottery'). Overlaps L.M. II at
Knossos and is gradually transformed
into 'L.M. lc' elsewhere (see 'Pottery')
Cylinder. Banded agate, Kakovatos, warrior
stabbing lion with short sword; Minoan
Genius taking hold of his sword-sheath,
iv. 462, 463 (Fig. 387)
Flat Cylinder. Cornelian, Phaestos Cemetery,
Minoan Genius carrying doe, iv. 435
(Fig. 358 a)

1 On account of these parallels read preferably L.M. la, in description of Fig. 966 (iv. 1018).

2 This deposit also contained a stratum showing a late Palatial element (see iv. 601, Nos. 3, 6, 7, 8,
9, 10, and probably 11).