200

REACTIONS ON MIDDLE EMPIRE EGYPT

part of M. M. I, which appears as an intrusive element amongst L. M. I
vases in a tomb discovered in Cerigo (Kythera).1

EGYPTIAN SCARAB PATTERNS XII-XIII DYNASTIES.

CRETAN SEAL.M.MI

FRESCO KNOSSOS MM I

IVORY ¥ CONE SIGNET CRETE M.M.II

HAGIA ^TRIADA.E.MUl.

STELA V^SHAFTCRAVE

/ """ ' """^ " T""l .-,- ' SEALING

STELA VT» GOLD PLATE VTf SHAFT STELA VT-» SHAFT ZAKRO

SHAFT GRAVE CRAVE MYCENAE GRAVE MYCENAE

MINOAN DECORATIVE PATTERN5. CRETE and MYCENAE

Fig. 110 a. Minoan Decorative Scrolls and Their Reaction at Mycenae and in

Middle Empire Egypt.

In several of these examples the intervening spaces present a close
resemblance to double axes (cf./, /), and a L. M. I seal pattern, given below,
suggests that the figures of the sacred weapon were themselves symmetri-

1 In the Athens Museum; Dr. Stais had represented an intrusive element in the tomb-
himself noted the fact that the stone vessel group, of earlier date.