Ægean archæeology; an introduction to the archæeology of prehistoric Greece . thedecorative friezes of the Cypriote-Minoan vases fromEnk6mi (Figs. 34, 51), caricatures of the formal Tiryn-thian procession and hunting-scenes painted on vases inall good faith as reproducing in petto the most admiredart of the great masters. The barbarous scrawl on afragment of pot from Tiryns^ is the last gasp ofMinoan painting. > Capart, Une Rue de Tombeaux, PH. XVI, XVII, LXXVIII,LXXIX. Keramopoullos, 17 oiKtaTouKaS/iou,E<^.A|Ox. p. 57^, SCHUCHHARDT, Fig. 132. PAINTING AND SCULPTURE 197 We retu
Ægean archæeology; an introduction to the archæeology of prehistoric Greece . thedecorative friezes of the Cypriote-Minoan vases fromEnk6mi (Figs. 34, 51), caricatures of the formal Tiryn-thian procession and hunting-scenes painted on vases inall good faith as reproducing in petto the most admiredart of the great masters. The barbarous scrawl on afragment of pot from Tiryns^ is the last gasp ofMinoan painting. > Capart, Une Rue de Tombeaux, PH. XVI, XVII, LXXVIII,LXXIX. Keramopoullos, 17 oiKtaTouKaS/iou,E<^.A|Ox. p. 57^, SCHUCHHARDT, Fig. 132. PAINTING AND SCULPTURE 197 We return to the relief style, of which the next ex-amples, after the seated lady of Pseira, were found atKnossos ; in low relief, the prince walking amid themeads while butterflies fly around him (p. 188), and inhigh relief, the blood-red bulls head, fitly discovered inthe home of the Minotaur (Fig. ]]). Here we have re-turned to the masterpieces of the best period. It isregrettable that the face of the prince is destroyed, asthe method of its treatment in relief would have been. Fio. 77. —Knossos ; luills head in relief, painted gesso Museum. Life-si^e. (After Aim., VI, Fig. lo.) most interesting to see. The Egyptians at an earlierperiod (Xlth Dynasty) had produced notable contri-butions of colour and relief sculpture of faces in softhmestone, the rise and fall of the cheeks over the cheek-bones, and the contours of lips and nose and chin beingmost delicately indicated in the relief, and the paint-ing giving the colour. A good instance is a fine but,unhappily, damaged portrait of a king found during theEgypt Exploration Funds excavations of the funerarytemple of King Mentuhetep III at Thebes in 1903, and 198 AEGEAN ARCHAEOLOGY published by Professor Naville and myself in the XlthDynasty Temfle at Deir el Bahari, III, PI. XII, Fig. instance of the delicate Egyptian handling ofa face in relief is seen in the Libyan prisoner, ibid.,PI. XIII, 2, which i
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