The palaces of Crete and their builders . worked on the lathe. Fig. 76^and b show the design without the neck. 4 Motiumenti Antichi^ R. Accad. dei Lincei, xiii., 1903. 5 Journal of Hellenic Studies, vol. xx. p. 389, 1902. ^ Milani thinks it is a religious procession, and various explanations havebeen given by others, ride Studii e materiali di archeologia, vol. iii. p. 84. PREHISTORIC SOCIAIISM 167 moving in step, lifting the left leg at the same moment, muchhigher than the march of a soldier would necessitate, shows thatthis is not an ordinary march ; on the other hand, it is difficult tobeli
The palaces of Crete and their builders . worked on the lathe. Fig. 76^and b show the design without the neck. 4 Motiumenti Antichi^ R. Accad. dei Lincei, xiii., 1903. 5 Journal of Hellenic Studies, vol. xx. p. 389, 1902. ^ Milani thinks it is a religious procession, and various explanations havebeen given by others, ride Studii e materiali di archeologia, vol. iii. p. 84. PREHISTORIC SOCIAIISM 167 moving in step, lifting the left leg at the same moment, muchhigher than the march of a soldier would necessitate, shows thatthis is not an ordinary march ; on the other hand, it is difficult tobelieve that they are dancing to the sound of their song and thesistrum because a slight turn of the body would cause an entangle-ment of the forks which these men carry on their shoulders. Igive first the side of the vase, showing the captain, who wears afull cuirass of mail (Fig. 75), and next the side, showing a manbent down to the ground (Fig. f^a). That it is not simply amarch is also proved by the position of the right arms, which are. FIG. 75.—VASE FROM HAGIA TRIADA ILLUSTRATEDBY SAVIGXONI. all bent at an acute angle, with the hand clenched on the the left shoulder they carry a fork with three very longprongs, all exactly alike, a long shaft with three prongs and asmall sickle. The fork is like those now used, but it is difficultto say what is the implement with it—whether it is an axe, apickaxe, or a small scythe. If they are soldiers it is difficult to understand why they haveno shield or other usual arms, and not even a helmet. A sickle }The implement carried on their shoulder is too short to reapwith. A weapon .-^ The three prongs of the fork are too long and 168 PALACES OF CRETE A AW THEIR BUILDERS slender to be used as a spear. The trident, says Savignoni, wasused as a weapon, and the retiarn were armed with it in thegladiatorial shows. Seafolk might have adopted an implementused in fishing, or the peasants might have taken to the trident,but only in an e
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