. The palace of Minos : a comparative account of the successive stages of the early Cretan civilization as illustrated by the discoveries at Knossos . the terrors of the The shallow,rock-floored sea is here indicated by conventional scale-work such as thatsurrounding dolphins on a painted rhyton from Pseira. On the borders of which Theseus rescues Andromeda on an earlyCorinthian amphora (Mon. d. Inst., x, PI. 52). On this rhyton see my remarks in Vol. II* The monsters head approaching twocurved objects on a painted stucco fragmentfrom Mycenae (,E^. kpy^, 1887, PI. XI, i) hasalso been ass
. The palace of Minos : a comparative account of the successive stages of the early Cretan civilization as illustrated by the discoveries at Knossos . the terrors of the The shallow,rock-floored sea is here indicated by conventional scale-work such as thatsurrounding dolphins on a painted rhyton from Pseira. On the borders of which Theseus rescues Andromeda on an earlyCorinthian amphora (Mon. d. Inst., x, PI. 52). On this rhyton see my remarks in Vol. II* The monsters head approaching twocurved objects on a painted stucco fragmentfrom Mycenae (,E^. kpy^, 1887, PI. XI, i) hasalso been associated with Skylla by Studniczka,Skylla in der Mykenischen Kunst (A th. Mitth,igo6, p. 50). But the curved objects are clearly horns of a Cretan wild goat or Agrimi,and show the usual knobs, while behind themis part of its fear. The monsters head in thiscase (which shows a real reminiscence ofThueris) is undoubtedly that of one of thebeneficent Genii, common in the early partof the Late Minoan Age, leading the wild goat,just as others are seen leading bulls, cows, andlions on Cretan gems of that time. M. M. Ill: SEAL TYPES AND GREATER ART 699. the shallows is visible part of the coast-line of a point of terra firma withindications on it of a tree. For comparison another fragment, Fio-. 521 b ishere shown, with victims of the disaster in deep waters. The whole context of the fragments from the silver rhyton, more fullyillustrated in a later Section of this work suggest anincident from some Epic Cycle of Minoan scene on the Knossian seal-impression of thebeginning, at latest, of the Sixteenth Century is,itself fundamentally the same as that of which theOdyssey has preserved a more elaborate tradition.^The myth, it appears, from the scene on the rhyton,already followed Minoan mariners beyond the coasts oftheir native island and was perhaps already localizedin the Straits by this time. The Greek conception ofSkylla would in that case go back to the days of farea
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