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THE PALACE OF MINOS, ETC.

rings, and, as is usual in such cases, are for the most part of a religious
nature. Some typical specimens excerpted from such types are given in
Fig. l>00. Of the female fashions, a, which shows the lion-holding type of
the Repository sealing reproduced above,1 and c are decidedly short-skirted,2
a characteristic that disappears in the Late Minoan Age. In b we seem to
see a shorter oown above the skirt as in some of the Petsofa costumes groins:
back to M. M. I.3 The elongated bell-shaped skirt, also well represented at

Fig. 500. Characteristic Types of Dress on Seal-types of M. M. Ill date.
(a, e, Knossos ; c, g, h, Zakro ; b, d,f i, Hagia Triada.)

Petsofa, is illustrated bye/, and shows a succession of horizontal flounces like
those of the Snake Goddess and her votaries. It is to be noted that the later,
V-shaped arrangement suggestive of a 'divided skirt', which in Late Minoan
times is so generally in vogue, is here conspicuous by its absence.

Of the male costumes, e from the Repository Hoard, and /"from Hagia
Triada, showing respectively a spearman and bowman associated with a lion
and a pard, have already received illustration among the contemporary
Shields religious types.4 The bow of f is of the horned, Asiatic class, the shield
helmets. °f e IS arcned above like that held by the warrior on the contemporary

1 Seep. 505, Fig. 363, a. represents the Minoan Goddess holding the

2 Another good example of this feature is to Double Axe and another sacred object.

be seen on the steatite signet from a M. M. 3 Compare Myres, Sanctuary of Petsofa

III. deposit F. of the 'School Room' at (B. S. A., ix), PI. XI, 27.

Knossos given above, p. 435, Fig. 312, a. It 4 See above, p. 505, Fig. 3G3, b, c.