. The palace of Minos : a comparative account of the successive stages of the early Cretan civilization as illustrated by the discoveries at Knossos . Painted Stucco Low Relief(M. M. Ilia) SHOWING Part of a Bulls Fresco Deposit. (-1 c.) M. M. Ill: BORDERS AND BASEMENTS OF E. HALL 377 (Fig. 271). But on the contemporary gem reproduced in Fig. 274 we en-counter a still more remarkable parallel. Here the lattice-work border withits diagonal is applied to what seems to have been a tank that has givena Minoan cow-boy the opportunity of springing down from some coignof van
. The palace of Minos : a comparative account of the successive stages of the early Cretan civilization as illustrated by the discoveries at Knossos . Painted Stucco Low Relief(M. M. Ilia) SHOWING Part of a Bulls Fresco Deposit. (-1 c.) M. M. Ill: BORDERS AND BASEMENTS OF E. HALL 377 (Fig. 271). But on the contemporary gem reproduced in Fig. 274 we en-counter a still more remarkable parallel. Here the lattice-work border withits diagonal is applied to what seems to have been a tank that has givena Minoan cow-boy the opportunity of springing down from some coignof vantage and seizing the neck and fore-legs of a gigantic bull as he hair of the acrobatic performer flies upwards as he springs, and hissinewy figure is rendered on a diminutive scale as compared with the the Minoan artist the bull was evidently, of greater importance, and theskill and boldness of the engraving of this part of the design is almostunsurpassed in its own line, though the perspective of the left horn is. Fig. 274. Minoan Intaglio showing Bull captured WHILE DRINKING AT A TaNK. (3^) ]_y\ curiously rendered. The gem belongs to the culminating phase of Minoanart that marks the transition from the Middle to the Late Minoan Age. It is not necesssary to suppose that this iozir de force was actuallyperformed in a Palace Court, though the Phaestian parallel might supplysome warrant for such a supposition. But the feat itself evidently belongedto a recognized class in which the King of Minoan beasts was grappled insome specially prepared area rather than while ranging at large. It fits onin fact to the Circus scenes which, as will be shown below, were a specialtheme of the later wall-paintings on the Palace walls of Knossos. But This gem, a flattened cylinder of onyx, presented by the Phaestos wall pattern, be once in the Tyskiewicz Collection (Furtwangler, certainly regarded as of Cretan fabric. It was Antike Gemmen, PI. VI, 9, and Vol. II, p. 26), said t
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