. The palace of Minos : a comparative account of the successive stages of the early Cretan civilization as illustrated by the discoveries at Knossos . ne case the figure appears squatting with the legs bent the body (cf Figs. 12, 2, 13, 3). In the other (Fig. 13, i, 5), we mayrecognize a silting attitude, with knees up and both feet drawn together Infront. The squatting attitude, which Is a simple modification of the other, finds ^ Tsuntas, SIpola-TopLKoi , &c. PI. Urgeschichte der bildenden Kiinst in Etiropa 32; Wace and Thompson, Prek. Thessaly, (1898), see esp. p. 20
. The palace of Minos : a comparative account of the successive stages of the early Cretan civilization as illustrated by the discoveries at Knossos . ne case the figure appears squatting with the legs bent the body (cf Figs. 12, 2, 13, 3). In the other (Fig. 13, i, 5), we mayrecognize a silting attitude, with knees up and both feet drawn together Infront. The squatting attitude, which Is a simple modification of the other, finds ^ Tsuntas, SIpola-TopLKoi , &c. PI. Urgeschichte der bildenden Kiinst in Etiropa 32; Wace and Thompson, Prek. Thessaly, (1898), see esp. p. 206 seqq., and Pis. III-V, 232 seqq. and passim. But many of these and my own independent study, Hagios Onu- clay figures seem to be later than the Aegean phrios Deposit, &c. : Suppl. to Cretan Picto- Neolithic. graphs, &c., Quaritch, 1895, p. 124 seqq. ^ For a general view of the distribution of G. Ossowsky, Fouilles de la Caverne de these primitiveidols, see S. Reinach,Za&«^- Wierzchowska-Gbrna (Antiqua, 1887, p. 32 tureen Europeavantlesinfluencesgreco-romaines seqq., and PI. VIII, 4).{Anthropologic, 1894 and 1895), M. Hoernes,. Fig. 12. Neolithic Clay Idol: NEOLITHIC STAGE: THE TELL OF KNOSSOS 47 an interesting analogy in the case of an early black clay figure with incised Seateddecoration from Adalia, the ancient Attalia, on the Pamphylian coast.^ In cfay^^ the front view of this figure, reproduced in Fig. 13, 17, the two feet, one of them femaleslightly obliterated, are seen meeting in front and implying thus a squattingposture. This point of similarity to the Cretan type is, moreover, enhancedby the position of the arms and hands which are laid over the breasts. It isevident, indeed, that the Adalia figurine is of a more advanced fabric.^ Inthis case the head with its delineation of the hair and features shows markedpoints of approximation to the well known owl-faced images of Hissarlik,arguing also an approximation in date. In the case of the Knossian figurines, the head
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