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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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Fig. 86. Ivory Seal from Tholos Ossuary,Messara ; Dove and Young (f). Doveshelteringitsyoung.
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Fig. 87. Ivory Seals from larger Tholos Ossuary, Platanos, Messara. (;) EARLY MINOAN III 119 perforation and engraved below with a rude animal figure. This signetpresents a curious parallelism with a black steatite example said to havebeen found in the Hauran.^ A series of ivory seals from the larger ossuary tholos of Platanos, ivoryrecently explored by Dr. Xanthudides ^ are reproduced in Figs. 87 and 88, a. from^Nos. I, 2, 3, represent respectively a squatting ape, a couchant ox, and Tlolos ofa boars head. The absence of a tail in the first might suggest the BarbaryApe, but the omission is possibly an accident of the engraving. On the otherhand the baboon-like figures on Fig. 88, a, with their handlike forepaws,are clearly taken from the Egyptian cynocephalus in his usual adorantattitude. These comparisons perhaps indicate an African source for the ivoryfound so abundantly in these South Cretan ossuaries. As in the case of thebird signets, however, the forms of these find their close

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