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EARLY USE OF 'KILT' IN MINOAN CRETE
Early use
of'kilt'at
Knossos.
designed for affixing to a flat surface, a small hole being visible just below
the belt, so that it could be secured in position by means of a pin. The
abdomen was hollowed out as shown by the section (Fig. 487, b—6) going
through the shoulder. The section, F"ig. 487, c-c, cuts through the buttock and
thigh. It is here drawn both in full side
view (a), and slightly behind the back (d),
on which appears the ends of long falling
locks, while another descends over the right
breast. The whole pose, with the upper
part of the body thrown back, recalls that
of the processional youths of the Fresco,
and points to the arms having supported
some heavy object. The figure, which is
certainly one of a series, must have stood
about 29 centimetres (nf inches) high.
Some traces of a plaster wash were found on
the terra-cotta surface, and this in its original
state was doubtless brightly coloured.
The existing remains of the ' Pro-
cession Fresco' favour the view that at the
time when it was executed—ex hypothesi in
the last decades of the sixteenth century
b. c—the ' kilt', covering the whole of the
body from the belt nearly down to the Fig. 488. Archer, probably Young
knee, was the usual Palace attire, and we ?°D' on Seai,impress.on : from
' ... 'Temple Repositories', M. M. Ill b.
may already see a reflection of this in the
garb of the young Minoan shown in the relatively early tomb of Puemra
(Fig. 472, above).1 That it was not itself a novelty in Crete is shown by
a seal-impression representing an archer—probably a young God and
accompanied by a lion—from the Temple Repositories here enlarged
(Fig.,488),' though in that case the end of the skirt was double. Some-
thing resembling it, indeed, is already seen in the engraved dagger-blade from
Psychro, attributed to M. M. II.3 A still nearer parallel, moreover, occurs
on a plaque of the ' Town Mosaic'4—apparently not much later in date—
representing a figure of an archer, and perhaps already pointing to a kind
of uniform. We may, however, reasonably regard it as to a certain extent
due to the influence of foregn fashions, both on the Asiatic side and in
P. 739, Fig. 472.
1 See P. of M., i, p. 680, Fig. 500, /
3 Ibid., i, p. 718, Fig. 541, a.
* Hid., i, p. 309, Fig. 228, p.
EARLY USE OF 'KILT' IN MINOAN CRETE
Early use
of'kilt'at
Knossos.
designed for affixing to a flat surface, a small hole being visible just below
the belt, so that it could be secured in position by means of a pin. The
abdomen was hollowed out as shown by the section (Fig. 487, b—6) going
through the shoulder. The section, F"ig. 487, c-c, cuts through the buttock and
thigh. It is here drawn both in full side
view (a), and slightly behind the back (d),
on which appears the ends of long falling
locks, while another descends over the right
breast. The whole pose, with the upper
part of the body thrown back, recalls that
of the processional youths of the Fresco,
and points to the arms having supported
some heavy object. The figure, which is
certainly one of a series, must have stood
about 29 centimetres (nf inches) high.
Some traces of a plaster wash were found on
the terra-cotta surface, and this in its original
state was doubtless brightly coloured.
The existing remains of the ' Pro-
cession Fresco' favour the view that at the
time when it was executed—ex hypothesi in
the last decades of the sixteenth century
b. c—the ' kilt', covering the whole of the
body from the belt nearly down to the Fig. 488. Archer, probably Young
knee, was the usual Palace attire, and we ?°D' on Seai,impress.on : from
' ... 'Temple Repositories', M. M. Ill b.
may already see a reflection of this in the
garb of the young Minoan shown in the relatively early tomb of Puemra
(Fig. 472, above).1 That it was not itself a novelty in Crete is shown by
a seal-impression representing an archer—probably a young God and
accompanied by a lion—from the Temple Repositories here enlarged
(Fig.,488),' though in that case the end of the skirt was double. Some-
thing resembling it, indeed, is already seen in the engraved dagger-blade from
Psychro, attributed to M. M. II.3 A still nearer parallel, moreover, occurs
on a plaque of the ' Town Mosaic'4—apparently not much later in date—
representing a figure of an archer, and perhaps already pointing to a kind
of uniform. We may, however, reasonably regard it as to a certain extent
due to the influence of foregn fashions, both on the Asiatic side and in
P. 739, Fig. 472.
1 See P. of M., i, p. 680, Fig. 500, /
3 Ibid., i, p. 718, Fig. 541, a.
* Hid., i, p. 309, Fig. 228, p.