The palaces of Crete and their builders . FIG. 98.—SEAL FOLWD AT PK^ESOS BY MR. BOSAXQUET,IX THE MUSEUM AT is also another woman like these, with black, waved man with long, floating hair has a band round his fore-head. The background of these pictures, of which fragmentshave been found, varies. One woman is on a blue ground This costume is very similar to that of the wrestlers and gymnasts on thesteatite vase, and the soldiers dress differs little from it. BULL-GRA P FLING 219 and the other on a yellow ground, with fragments of a greybull. Fig. 100 shows fragments of a fres
The palaces of Crete and their builders . FIG. 98.—SEAL FOLWD AT PK^ESOS BY MR. BOSAXQUET,IX THE MUSEUM AT is also another woman like these, with black, waved man with long, floating hair has a band round his fore-head. The background of these pictures, of which fragmentshave been found, varies. One woman is on a blue ground This costume is very similar to that of the wrestlers and gymnasts on thesteatite vase, and the soldiers dress differs little from it. BULL-GRA P FLING 219 and the other on a yellow ground, with fragments of a greybull. Fig. 100 shows fragments of a fresco discovered at Tirynssome years ago, and now in the Museum at Athens. , who published it, thought that it represented a bullhunt, and that the artist, through ignorance of perspective, haddrawn the hunter above the bull. After what I have justexplained there is no doubt that this fresco represents a. FIG. 99.—HEAD OF A GREAT BULL WHICH FORMED THE SPOUT OF ATERRACOTTA VASE FOUND AT KOUMASA. taurokathapsia, and that here too the performer is a woman, forthe skin is white ; if it had been a man he would have beenpainted red. IV. The most magnificent records of the taurokathapsia are thestucco figures in half relief and the ivory statuettes found by at Knossos. Though there are only a few fragmentsof the stucco, they give so lifelike an image of the bull that 220 PALACES OF CRETE AND THEIR BUILDERS it is equal, if not superior, to the Farnese bull in the NaplesMuseum, which breathes a suggestion of false art. The headin particular is a fragment of great value, for the details ofthe mouth, eyes, and nostrils, which are full of the bull stood a man, and the modelling of the veins andthe standing out of the muscles is perfect. Dr. Evans has explained an arm holding a horn () as the arm of a man carrying a vase. This was asudden idea after Dr. Evans had d
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