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Title: The palace of Minos : a comparative account of the successive stages of the early Cretan civilization as illustrated by the discoveries at Knossos
Year: 1921 (1920s)
Authors: Evans, Arthur, Sir, 1851-1941 Evans, Joan, 1893-1977
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Publisher: London : Macmillan and Co.
Contributing Library: Cornell University Library
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elf taken over. The above chronological evidence also supplies a clue to the approximate date of a very characteristic class of three- and four-sided bead-seals exhibiting subjects of a pictographic character (Fig. 93 a, b).* This con- . ventionalized type of prism-seal dates back to E. M. IP but the bulk of these 1 See below p 358. seqq ) : Further Discoveries, &c. (/. H. S., xvii, 2 See for example the confronted men on p. 331 seqq.). Scorpions, spiders, fishes,the -labyrinth-seal, Fig. 91, above. hunted goats, ostrich-like birds, and revolving Compare Scripta Mima, i, p. 128, Fig. 65. disks recur. * See Scripta Mima, i, p. 13° seqq., and = See above, p. 95, with note 2. Cretan Pictographs, &c. (/. H. S., xiv, p. 337 PottersSeals. 124 THE PALACE OF MINOS ETC. seals may be, referred to .the present time. They mark their ownersvocation and often present amuletic signs. Subjects relating to the potterscraft are frequent on these. In Fig. 93 a, a 1, a diminutive man is moulding
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PRis/A SEALTw/e^^ Fig. 93 a. Three-sided Bead-Seals, a, ,5, Grey s/efoj wiTH)iiER.oi;i-fPHs Steatite : c, Brown Steatite (Face 2, Two Pots Fig. 92. Table showing Derivation of Cretan Jf Oven; 3, Cruciform Pattern): d, Yellow Double Sickle Types from Reversed Lion Types ^^teatite (^ace 2, Bulls Head; 3, Two Fore- OF Egypto-Libyan Button-Seals (;). l^^^^ of Dogs). All from Kasteli Pedeada, ^^ S.E. of Knossos (f). a large jar with handles above and below—the earliest record of a Cretanpithos, though a parallel Cycladic type is known. In 3 2 a pot is apparentlybeing taken out of an oven. The table-like object on Fig. 93 a, « 2 with its EARLY MINOAN III 125 square divisions leads us to a remarkable series of comparisons. It is in fact a Minoan draught-board and in the triangular object beneath the hand of the Draught. seated personage we must recognize a conical draughtsman.^ player.

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