. The palace of Minos : a comparative account of the successive stages of the early Cretan civilization as illustrated by the discoveries at Knossos . Ill a 17. CYPRO-MINOANENKOMI []18 b. ®[ BLOXWORTHDOWN,DORSET [vERy paleI BARROW. KINGSTONPEVERELL WILT5 LAKEVA/ILT5 BRITISH I5LES [ EARLY bromze age barrows.] Fig. 352. Segmented Types of Faience Beads. 3TEVEN5T0NAYR separately short flat beads so as to form small groups, which led to the moreconvenient device of moulding them in one, as long single beads, the sectionsof their original subdivisions surviving as
. The palace of Minos : a comparative account of the successive stages of the early Cretan civilization as illustrated by the discoveries at Knossos . Ill a 17. CYPRO-MINOANENKOMI []18 b. ®[ BLOXWORTHDOWN,DORSET [vERy paleI BARROW. KINGSTONPEVERELL WILT5 LAKEVA/ILT5 BRITISH I5LES [ EARLY bromze age barrows.] Fig. 352. Segmented Types of Faience Beads. 3TEVEN5T0NAYR separately short flat beads so as to form small groups, which led to the moreconvenient device of moulding them in one, as long single beads, the sectionsof their original subdivisions surviving as grooves. Traces of this practiceappear already under the Xlth Dynasty,! but the ordinary segmented formof bead does not appear in Egypt, so far as the existing evidence goes, tillafter the close of the Middle Kingdom.^ That it was current, however, at 1 Beads belonging to the latest elements in ^A bulged version of the segmented the cemetery of Mahasna(Ashmolean Museum) type appears to go back to the Xllthpresent the twisted type. No. 2. Dynasty. 494 THE PALACE OF MINOS, ETC. Generalindica-tions ofMinoancon-nexionwith Fig. 353. Festoons betweenColumns of Shrine on FragmentOF Painted Pottery. Of the Westward extension of Minoan enterprise something hasalready been said, and the use of imported liparite from the Aeolianislands bears early witness of its importance. In a sealing from theTemple Repository, described below,^ we may even trace an allusion tothe myth of Scylla. There are indications of a colonial settlement inSicily which may go back to the beginning of the Late Minoan Age, anda remarkable series of bronzes from Minorca and Spain itself points toa direct intercourse with the Iberic Westabout the same epoch, the reflex of which isshown in the appearance of the bronze halberdtype of that region in a Mycenae Shaft is at least in accordance with sane methodsof archaeological deduction to infer that theMinoans were at the same time instr
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