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THE PALACE OF MINOS, ETC.
intrusion of ' Alpine Man ' from the North, shows a tendency to increase.
To-day the long-headed type is in the minority.
These craniometrical results as well as other bodily measurements may
be taken to imply that in Minoan times a large part of the popula-
tion belonged to the somewhat long-headed 'Mediterranean Race'. A
typical representative of this ' Mediterranean Race' has indeed been recog-
nized in the Cupbearer of the Knossian wall-painting1 with his dark eyes,
ruddy brown complexion, black wavy hair, and short compact frame.- The
head of this figure is shown in Fig. 2, c, while d reproduces that of the
' dancing lady ' fresco from the Queen's Megaron.
a.
b.
d.
' Arme-
noid '
Type of
Early
Cretan
Dynast.
Fig. 2. a, b. Portrait Heads associated on M.M. II Sealing (f).
c. From Cup-bearer Fresco. d. From Dancing Lady Fresco.
The fine-cut nose tilted forward at the point which distinguishes the
figures of the Late Minoan wall-paintings, such as c and d, has generally
a straight bridge. But at other times it is decidedly aquiline, and this
characteristic is well marked in the design which must be regarded as the
first Minoan attempt at distinct portraiture. This is seen on a sealing, other-
wise impressed by a signet bearing a hieroglyphic formula of frequent occur-
rence, in which I have ventured to recognize an official title of a hereditary
nature since it recurs with varying personal badges on a series of prism-seals
of successive periods.3 Beside this, is the impression of a head of an adult male
personage, with waved hair falling in a lock behind and a decidedly aquiline
1 See Vol. II. Cretan and Albanian types. The waving hair
2 In my first account of the Cupbearer fresco gives it a high appearance. But it is unsafe to
(Knossos, Report, 1900, pp. 15, 16 ; B.S.A., draw too exact craniometrical deductions from
vi; Monthly Review, March, 1901, p. 124)
I had described the head as ' high' and
brachycephalic, and compared certain existing
this, in part, conventionalized wall-painting.
:; Scripta Minoa, i, pp. 271, 272 (Figs. 124,
125), and see p. 266, Table XXII
THE PALACE OF MINOS, ETC.
intrusion of ' Alpine Man ' from the North, shows a tendency to increase.
To-day the long-headed type is in the minority.
These craniometrical results as well as other bodily measurements may
be taken to imply that in Minoan times a large part of the popula-
tion belonged to the somewhat long-headed 'Mediterranean Race'. A
typical representative of this ' Mediterranean Race' has indeed been recog-
nized in the Cupbearer of the Knossian wall-painting1 with his dark eyes,
ruddy brown complexion, black wavy hair, and short compact frame.- The
head of this figure is shown in Fig. 2, c, while d reproduces that of the
' dancing lady ' fresco from the Queen's Megaron.
a.
b.
d.
' Arme-
noid '
Type of
Early
Cretan
Dynast.
Fig. 2. a, b. Portrait Heads associated on M.M. II Sealing (f).
c. From Cup-bearer Fresco. d. From Dancing Lady Fresco.
The fine-cut nose tilted forward at the point which distinguishes the
figures of the Late Minoan wall-paintings, such as c and d, has generally
a straight bridge. But at other times it is decidedly aquiline, and this
characteristic is well marked in the design which must be regarded as the
first Minoan attempt at distinct portraiture. This is seen on a sealing, other-
wise impressed by a signet bearing a hieroglyphic formula of frequent occur-
rence, in which I have ventured to recognize an official title of a hereditary
nature since it recurs with varying personal badges on a series of prism-seals
of successive periods.3 Beside this, is the impression of a head of an adult male
personage, with waved hair falling in a lock behind and a decidedly aquiline
1 See Vol. II. Cretan and Albanian types. The waving hair
2 In my first account of the Cupbearer fresco gives it a high appearance. But it is unsafe to
(Knossos, Report, 1900, pp. 15, 16 ; B.S.A., draw too exact craniometrical deductions from
vi; Monthly Review, March, 1901, p. 124)
I had described the head as ' high' and
brachycephalic, and compared certain existing
this, in part, conventionalized wall-painting.
:; Scripta Minoa, i, pp. 271, 272 (Figs. 124,
125), and see p. 266, Table XXII