. The palace of Minos : a comparative account of the successive stages of the early Cretan civilization as illustrated by the discoveries at Knossos . Fig. 63. Cylinder Seal of GreenSteatite, Mochlos (i). Fig. 62. Green Steatite Lid from Mochlos (f).. Fig. 64. IvorYj Mochlos (f c). E. M. IISeals. engraved above and below with decorative designs, in one case a kindof plait-work figure, in the other, combinations of triquetras. The curvedivory seal, Fig. 64, from Tomb 11,^ is interesting as showing—foir the first timein a pure E. M. II medium—the motive ofinterlocked coils, which seemsto lead up
. The palace of Minos : a comparative account of the successive stages of the early Cretan civilization as illustrated by the discoveries at Knossos . Fig. 63. Cylinder Seal of GreenSteatite, Mochlos (i). Fig. 62. Green Steatite Lid from Mochlos (f).. Fig. 64. IvorYj Mochlos (f c). E. M. IISeals. engraved above and below with decorative designs, in one case a kindof plait-work figure, in the other, combinations of triquetras. The curvedivory seal, Fig. 64, from Tomb 11,^ is interesting as showing—foir the first timein a pure E. M. II medium—the motive ofinterlocked coils, which seemsto lead up to the returning spirals of the succeeding Age. In the ivory seal representing the two apes. Fig. 51 above, hasbeen shown another type of this Period with a bottle-shaped body andperforated excrescence above. This will be seen to stand at the headof a somewhat large family of Cretan seals of what I have termed the 1 Seager, Mochlos, p. 70, Fig. 39. » Of. cit, p. 34, Fig. 12, II, 41. The seal Oj>. at, p. 54, Fig. 24, and p. 108. Ihis had been broken at an early period, and was cylinder is pierced vertically with four small found riveted together by a bronze and horizontally with three. EARLY MINOAN II 95 signet type. Many per
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