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were used and a cestus was bound round the wrist, of which traces can
be seen in Fig. 510.1

The bent knee of a fallen opponent visible on the vase fragment, The
immediately in front of the victor's left leg, is in much the same position as chlmpi
that of one of the defeated champions seen in the lower zone of the Hacda of Boxing

Ring.

Triada rhyton (Fig. oil),2 which seems to depict boy boxers, in contrast with
the helmeted men of the zone above. The youth in that case has been
sent flying, with one leg in the air, by a knock-out blow and saves himself
from performing a somersault, as in another case, by means of his left arm.

Fig. .512. Scene of Armed Combat
in Arena, on Seal-impression from
Hagia Triada (§).

Fig. 51.3. Scene of Combat in
Mountain Glen, on Gold Signet-ring
from IYth Shaft Grave, Mycenae (f).

Sealing.

The shoulder of the fallen champion seen to the left of the standing figure
on the Repository seal-impression (Fig. 509) may indicate a similar action.

These episodes drawn from the boxing ring present obvious points of Gladia-
comparison with the subject of a remarkable seal-impression from the Hagia t0

1 •> r . . & scene on

Triada hoard (Fig. 512).3 Here, again, between the combatants we see traces H. Triada
of a pillar, which may reasonably be supposed to indicate that, in this case
too, we have to do with an agonistic contest of the arena, and, like the
spectacle with which the Temple Fresco was connected, under the immediate
auspices of the great Minoan Goddess. Here, too, we see pairs of combat-
ants arrayed against each other, and have the results in part outlined for us.
But the contest here depicted is of a more deadly nature. The gladiatorial

1 Compare the sign, No. 8, Fig. 4 83, of the
Phaestos Disk.

2 See Halbherr, Memorie dei r. Istituto
Lombardo, xxi, Tav. 2, Fig. 3. The photograph
from which Fig. 511 was made is due to the
courtesy of Prof. Halbherr.

3 Mon. Ant. xiii, p. 45, Fig. 41 and PI. VI
(No. 15 in the series). Two badly preserved
seal-impressions from Zakro, Nos. 12 and 13,
show scenes of combat with traces of a column
behind. It is uncertain, however, if the con-
test is of the pugilistic or the gladiatorial kind.

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