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THE PALACE OF MINOS, ETC.

Cylinder Among the typical forms of seal which were in vogue during the

withSide Present Period are cylinders perforated at the side and engraved at the
Perfora- extremities—a purely indigenous type unknown either to Egypt or Baby-
lonia. Specimens exist in steatite, ivory, and clay. A somewhat broken
example from Tomb XVIII at Mochlos 1 is given in Fig. 63. It is of green
translucent steatite, and probably belongs to the E. M. II elements of that
tomb. Of the same date is a remarkable ivory cylinder from Tomb VI 2

a

Fig. 64. Ivory, Mochlos (f c).

engraved above and below with decorative designs, in one case a kind
of plait-work figure, in the other, combinations of triquetras. The curved
ivory seal, Fig. 64, from Tomb II,3 is interesting as showing—for the first time
in a pure E. M. II medium—the motive of interlocked coils, which seems
to lead up to the returning spirals of the succeeding Age.
E. M. II In the ivory seal representing the two apes, Fig. 51 above, has

Seals- been shown another type of this Period with a bottle-shaped body and
perforated excrescence above. This will be seen to stand at the head
of a somewhat large family of Cretan seals of what I have termed the

1 Seager, Mochlos, p. 70, Fig. 39. 3 Of. cit., p. 34, Fig. 12, II, 41. ' The seal

2 Op. cit, p. 54, Fig. 24, and p. 108. 1'his had been broken at an early period, and was
cylinder is pierced vertically with four small found riveted together by a bronze peg.'
holes and horizontally with three.