. The palace of Minos : a comparative account of the successive stages of the early Cretan civilization as illustrated by the discoveries at Knossos . Fig. 515. Seal-impression fromRoyal Tomb, Knossos, with SpiralDado below (f).. Fig. 616. Clay Seal-impression,Palace, Knossos, with Dado (f). ^ Prehistoric Tombs of Knossos, pp. 154, 155, 138. M. M. Ill : SEAL TYPES AND GREATER ART 695 the plaques of the gypsum dadoes. In a basement near the Stepped Porch of the Central Court of the Palace was found the lower part of a clay seal-impression on which three warriors, with the Minoan 8-shaped
. The palace of Minos : a comparative account of the successive stages of the early Cretan civilization as illustrated by the discoveries at Knossos . Fig. 515. Seal-impression fromRoyal Tomb, Knossos, with SpiralDado below (f).. Fig. 616. Clay Seal-impression,Palace, Knossos, with Dado (f). ^ Prehistoric Tombs of Knossos, pp. 154, 155, 138. M. M. Ill : SEAL TYPES AND GREATER ART 695 the plaques of the gypsum dadoes. In a basement near the Stepped Porch of the Central Court of the Palace was found the lower part of a clay seal-impression on which three warriors, with the Minoan 8-shaped shields, aredepicted as if on the march above a similar dado band with the same spiraldecoration, Fig. 516.^ We may here trace the reflection of a processionalfresco of this kind on the Palace walls. In the recumbent ox, Fig. 518, c, with his head turned away from thespectator, we have apparently an excerpt from a Cattle-piece which about thistime seems from its constant repetition to have attained a considerablevogue. A fuller type is illustrated by the banded agate lentoid shown inFig. 517 ;^ in this a second ox is shown in front as if in the act of rising. Itis interesting to note that two lentoid intaglios from the Va
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