. The palace of Minos : a comparative account of the successive stages of the early Cretan civilization as illustrated by the discoveries at Knossos . aptationof the Egyptian draught-board sign meK [d, c) as it appears already on proto-dynastic cylinders (Fig. 93 c, d^), andthe draughtsmen here show the characteristicknobbed head. The long-robed women. ofFig. 93 a, 5 J, adoring a rayed solar symbol,already wear the peaked collars or cowls thatsurvived as a Middle Minoan fashion. Thesimilarly clad figure on ^ i is a female I recalls the crocodiles of the cylinders. A type of perforated
. The palace of Minos : a comparative account of the successive stages of the early Cretan civilization as illustrated by the discoveries at Knossos . aptationof the Egyptian draught-board sign meK [d, c) as it appears already on proto-dynastic cylinders (Fig. 93 c, d^), andthe draughtsmen here show the characteristicknobbed head. The long-robed women. ofFig. 93 a, 5 J, adoring a rayed solar symbol,already wear the peaked collars or cowls thatsurvived as a Middle Minoan fashion. Thesimilarly clad figure on ^ i is a female I recalls the crocodiles of the cylinders. A type of perforated amulet of steatite, inthe shape of a human leg, belonging to the laterelements of the ossuary tholoi, takes us in thesame direction as the double sickle on thebead-seals. Similar pendants occur in Egyptiangraves belonging to the Sixth Dynasty and immediately succeeding Period.*They were invariably attached as amulets to the anklets of the dead, arm-shaped pendants being suspended from the wrists. This contact with primitive Nilotic elements also gives a suggestiveinterest to the appearance of clay burial cists and jars, both lidded, containing. Adapta-tion ofEgyptianDraught-boardSigh. Fig. 93 c. a, Draught-BoardAND Pieces on E. M. Ill IvorySignet (Fracture restored).b, c, Earlv Types of EgyptianDraught-Board Sign (»zif«). e,f,Egyptian Pieces. Leg Amulets :ParallelsfromEgypt. ^ Inverted conical draughtsmen above aboard are seen on an Early Dynastic Egyptiancylinder (Petrie, Scarabs and Cylinders withNames, PL II, 49. and cf. PI. IV, 98). , ^ Halbherr, Rendiconti, 8zc., 1906, p. 3;^,Fig. C. But the subject remained enigmatic. b from sealing of Narnier, Petrie, RoyalTombs, II, 93 (cf. Mena); c. from cartouche ofQueen Hatasu (for comparison). * e. g. at Mah^sna. J. Garstang, Mahdsna,PL XXXIX and p. 30. BurialUrns andClayCists : 126 THE PALACE OF MINOS, ETC. Pre-historicEgyptianandLibyanCompari-sons. Approxi-mateDatingof E. contracted skeletons. The clay cist or larnax has
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