. The palace of Minos : a comparative account of the successive stages of the early Cretan civilization as illustrated by the discoveries at Knossos . nds points to thisarea as having been a traditional scene of such pastimes. ^ Mr. P. E. Newberry has called my attentionto these. ^ Quibell, Tomb of Hesy, PI. X (Service desAntiquit^s, i g 11 -12). Ivory examples exist, Fine Arts Club Cat., 1921, p. 112, T. 10. 3 Dice formed part of the Egyptian form of the Game of the Sacred Way (see E. Falkener,Games Ancient and Modern, p. 97). * The other piece had a plain base. It wasapproximately o
. The palace of Minos : a comparative account of the successive stages of the early Cretan civilization as illustrated by the discoveries at Knossos . nds points to thisarea as having been a traditional scene of such pastimes. ^ Mr. P. E. Newberry has called my attentionto these. ^ Quibell, Tomb of Hesy, PI. X (Service desAntiquit^s, i g 11 -12). Ivory examples exist, Fine Arts Club Cat., 1921, p. 112, T. 10. 3 Dice formed part of the Egyptian form of the Game of the Sacred Way (see E. Falkener,Games Ancient and Modern, p. 97). * The other piece had a plain base. It wasapproximately of the same as the others. ^ See p. 249. 478 THE PALACE OF MINOS, ETC. The diameter of the pieces given in Fig. 342 (8 centimetres) so closely corresponds with that of the disks of the Gaming Board that we maj fairly conclude that they had belonged to a board or boards of a very similar kind. Pre- The ivory objects are more or less conical in shape, and of more solid Egyptian proportions than the usual Egyptian pieces. It is, however, interesting to ^°™ note that their form closely approaches that of the prehistoric clay men pansons. j rr i j.
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