The palaces of Crete and their builders . s three women playing a are dressed in puffed-out petticoats like the woman inFig. 31^. The woman playing at ball in the middle wears apair of trousers with horizontal pufiings. I quote ProfessorHalbherrs description of the seals (Fig. yia and b) : Woman 76 PALACES OF CRETE AND THEIR BUILDERS with the bosom apparently nude, the waist tightly belted in, andwearing trousers with parallel puffings. On her head she wears asmall conical hat surrounded by a turban. She is represented inthe act of dancing and playing with two balls between two girlso
The palaces of Crete and their builders . s three women playing a are dressed in puffed-out petticoats like the woman inFig. 31^. The woman playing at ball in the middle wears apair of trousers with horizontal pufiings. I quote ProfessorHalbherrs description of the seals (Fig. yia and b) : Woman 76 PALACES OF CRETE AND THEIR BUILDERS with the bosom apparently nude, the waist tightly belted in, andwearing trousers with parallel puffings. On her head she wears asmall conical hat surrounded by a turban. She is represented inthe act of dancing and playing with two balls between two girlsor women with puffed-out dresses holding wands in their i^ib shows a real fashion plate of the Mycenasan age. Twovery fashionable ladies advance with measured movements, possiblytowards a temple. The chest held well forward, with thebreasts drooping, the bell-shaped skirt with trimmings of flounceor fringe, the curves of the figure, the tight waistband give thecostume and attitude of these figures that characteristic appearance. FIG. 12a. FIG. 326. SEALS. produced by the refouleur corset ot the latest Paris , however, the bust appears to be nude, as in the women ofthe preceding seal and most of the others, or if this is not thecase, we must suppose that this appearance of nudity is given bya very fine and closely fitting chvton, like the onion skin ofOdysseus. The most celebrated works ot Mycenaean art were found inthis villa. They are vases of steatite with figures in relief, whichwere covered with gold leaf. The design of one cup discoveredby Professor Halbherr represents an officer giving an order to asoldier. The realism of both the figures makes them severe and martial attitude of the officer, who holds a lance,the rigid position at attention with the feet together, and a certainair of tension in the private with his sword, are expressed with A VILLA 77 surprising truth. Militarism has evidently the same attitudesand expression
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