Ægean archæeology; an introduction to the archæeology of prehistoric Greece . e useless in Greece, in spite ofits great width of gauge, except upon carefully builtstone roads and causeways. Probably, therefore, inMinoan Greece the chariot was actually used rather forpleasure or quick transit than for war. Davis, Tomb of louiya and Touiyou, PL I, XXXII. ^ See p. 142. ^ The horse and chariot had themselves reached Egypt not longbefore; see Anc. Hist. , p. 213. On a Knossian seal impressionyve see a representation of a horse on shipboard (Fig. 50). 144 AEGEAN ARCHAEOLOGY In speaking of Minoan
Ægean archæeology; an introduction to the archæeology of prehistoric Greece . e useless in Greece, in spite ofits great width of gauge, except upon carefully builtstone roads and causeways. Probably, therefore, inMinoan Greece the chariot was actually used rather forpleasure or quick transit than for war. Davis, Tomb of louiya and Touiyou, PL I, XXXII. ^ See p. 142. ^ The horse and chariot had themselves reached Egypt not longbefore; see Anc. Hist. , p. 213. On a Knossian seal impressionyve see a representation of a horse on shipboard (Fig. 50). 144 AEGEAN ARCHAEOLOGY In speaking of Minoan houses and palaces we havesaid nothing of their furniture. No doubt becausemost of this was of wood, we have none of it left ; afact that makes a great contrast between Aegean andEgyptian archaeology. The Egyptian tombs have pre-served for us so many specimens of furniture that wehave a complete knowledge of what the house-furnisher and upholsterer could do in ancient famous Throne of Minos at Knossos may giveus some idea of a Minoan wooden chair (PI. XXVII, 2).. Fig. 51.—Procession with chariots. From a CyprianLate Mycenaean vase. It is of stone, but it is very obviously imitated from awooden chair, and the style of its docketed decorationis purely wooden. Translated back into wood, asit often has been, it no doubt is an admirable replicaof a piece of Minoan furniture. Going back to the beginning of things: an odd pieceof decoration in a primitive Neolithic dwelling was thevertebra of a whale, found at Phaistos in the Neolithicstratum. It had no doubt been cast up on the southerncoast, and been treasured by the early inhabitants as acuriosity.^ Mosso, Dawn oj Mediterranean Civilization, p. 66. CHAPTER VI.—TEMPLES AND TOMBS ONE of the most characteristic features of earlyAegean civilization is the fact that the temple does not distinguish itself clearly from the great buildings we have j ustdescribed were certainlypalaces. Where then, and what, were
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