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'Their type is one unknown before, but has certain analogies, especially tholos b
in costume, with the Petsofa clay figurines,1 and with the Late Minoan and figurines
Mycenaean bronze figures with their bell-shaped dress.
135. This small ivory figure, which has lost its head, is of the same type Cretan Figurines
and wears the same long dress, flat in front and round behind. The arms are
shown in relief, with the hands, which have the fingers indicated, on the breasts.
Height -025 m., breadth -015 m.
525. This is also of ivory and of the same type, with bell-shaped dress,
but only the part below the waist is preserved. On the bottom is an intaglio
floral design, showing that this figurine served also as a seal.
130, 131. Two figurines of cream-coloured limestone, with a thick whitish-
yellow crust peeling off.
130 is complete, -06 m. high, but 131 has lost its head. Their bodies are
flat behind but rounded in front and narrow to a point below, particularly that
of 131. The head of 130 is huge, with a pointed chin, and its arms are indicated
in relief on the breasts. It is the better preserved of the two.
This type of figure, looking like a babe in swaddling clothes or an Egyptian
mummy, has been met before in Crete. Eight similar small figurines of lime- Egyptian Type
stone, alabaster, or marble were found in the large tholos of Hagia Triada by
Professor Halbherr,2 who notes their kinship with Egypto-Libyan, that is,
prehistoric Egyptian prototypes, and compares them with the Shabti figures
of Egyptian tombs, and particularly with the predynastic figurines with domed
heads, pointed chins, and bodies ending in a point found by Sir Flinders Petrie.3
Two more figures of the type I found in Tholos A at Platanos (222, 223). It is
probable that these little figures had some religious purport in Crete, as they
had in Egypt. They were probably protective amulets, and were placed in
the tomb after death to continue their support and protection in the other life.
We may also compare the large, rough-hewn figures of slate found in the
Early Minoan tomb of Pyrgos which also end in a point.4
D. Metal Objects. metal
objects
1. Copper Daggers.
The secret digging of the village people had produced three copper daggers
from inside the tholos. About twenty more were found in my excavation of the
tomb. The most important forms are shown in Plate XXIV b. Two only (1193,
1194) are of the small triangular type, of which about thirty-five were found
in the large tholos of Hagia Triada,5 five or six in the cemetery of Mochlos,6
1 B.S.A., IX, p. 367, Plates VIII, XI. * 'APX. A* At., to//. 4, <rt\. 162-163, (Ik. 14.
2 Halbherr, Mem. 1st. Lo?nb., loc. tit., p. 251, Tav. 5 Halbherr, Mem. 1st. Lomb., loc. tit., p. 250,
XI, fig. 27. Tav. X, fig. 24.
3 Petrie, Man (1902), p. 17. « Seager, Mochlos, pp. 106-107, fig. 44.
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'Their type is one unknown before, but has certain analogies, especially tholos b
in costume, with the Petsofa clay figurines,1 and with the Late Minoan and figurines
Mycenaean bronze figures with their bell-shaped dress.
135. This small ivory figure, which has lost its head, is of the same type Cretan Figurines
and wears the same long dress, flat in front and round behind. The arms are
shown in relief, with the hands, which have the fingers indicated, on the breasts.
Height -025 m., breadth -015 m.
525. This is also of ivory and of the same type, with bell-shaped dress,
but only the part below the waist is preserved. On the bottom is an intaglio
floral design, showing that this figurine served also as a seal.
130, 131. Two figurines of cream-coloured limestone, with a thick whitish-
yellow crust peeling off.
130 is complete, -06 m. high, but 131 has lost its head. Their bodies are
flat behind but rounded in front and narrow to a point below, particularly that
of 131. The head of 130 is huge, with a pointed chin, and its arms are indicated
in relief on the breasts. It is the better preserved of the two.
This type of figure, looking like a babe in swaddling clothes or an Egyptian
mummy, has been met before in Crete. Eight similar small figurines of lime- Egyptian Type
stone, alabaster, or marble were found in the large tholos of Hagia Triada by
Professor Halbherr,2 who notes their kinship with Egypto-Libyan, that is,
prehistoric Egyptian prototypes, and compares them with the Shabti figures
of Egyptian tombs, and particularly with the predynastic figurines with domed
heads, pointed chins, and bodies ending in a point found by Sir Flinders Petrie.3
Two more figures of the type I found in Tholos A at Platanos (222, 223). It is
probable that these little figures had some religious purport in Crete, as they
had in Egypt. They were probably protective amulets, and were placed in
the tomb after death to continue their support and protection in the other life.
We may also compare the large, rough-hewn figures of slate found in the
Early Minoan tomb of Pyrgos which also end in a point.4
D. Metal Objects. metal
objects
1. Copper Daggers.
The secret digging of the village people had produced three copper daggers
from inside the tholos. About twenty more were found in my excavation of the
tomb. The most important forms are shown in Plate XXIV b. Two only (1193,
1194) are of the small triangular type, of which about thirty-five were found
in the large tholos of Hagia Triada,5 five or six in the cemetery of Mochlos,6
1 B.S.A., IX, p. 367, Plates VIII, XI. * 'APX. A* At., to//. 4, <rt\. 162-163, (Ik. 14.
2 Halbherr, Mem. 1st. Lo?nb., loc. tit., p. 251, Tav. 5 Halbherr, Mem. 1st. Lomb., loc. tit., p. 250,
XI, fig. 27. Tav. X, fig. 24.
3 Petrie, Man (1902), p. 17. « Seager, Mochlos, pp. 106-107, fig. 44.
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