u6 NILOTIC ELEMENTS IN INTAGLIO DESIGNS

Also fre-
quent in
intaglio
types.

from Ligortinoa of L. M. 111 b date a further detail is introduced from the
same Nilotic repertory, a butterfly fluttering in front of a water-bird.

Among intaglio types water-fowl and papyrus clumps of the same origin
had a long vogue both in Crete and Mycenaean Greece.2 A lentoid bead-seal
of green jasper from the site of Knossos 3 (Fig. 66, a) presents an exquisite
group of three wild fowl amidst sprays of the conventional papyrus, resem-

Fig. 66. Water-fowl and Papyrus : a, on Green Jasper Bead-seal, Knossos ;
l>, Haematite Lentoid, Central or Eastern Crete.

bling those of the dagger-blade. Sprays of the same kind appear on the
haematite bead-seal from Central Crete (Fig. 66, b), and very large clay sealing,
showing papyrus tufts of similar type, was found, in a L. M. II medium, in
connexion with the Arsenal,4 North-West of the Knossian Palace (Fig. 67).
The birds here are in two fields, separated by a horizontal line, an arrange-
ment which resembles that of some of the later wall-paintings forming double
horizontal bands, as for instance the ' Camp Stool Fresco'. In these cases
the ducks are still undisturbed. At times they have spread their wings for
flight, as on the haematite lentoid Fig. 66, b,b and on a sardonyx of the
' almond' shape from the Vapheio Tomb.6 Nor is the representation of the

1 Now in the Louvre : I had occasion to
copy it at Ligortino itself shortly after the dis-
covery of the tomb.

2 A duck standing by itself already appears
on a M. M. II b prism seal in my collection,
but there is no Nilotic ingredient.

3 Given me in 1899 by Dr. J. Hatzidakis.

4 A. E., Knossos, Report, 1904, p. 56,
Fig. 19, and p. 57. On a haematite lentoid
from Praesos ('E<£. 'Ap^., 1907, PI. VIII, 123)

there is a coarsely executed design of two pairs
of ducks in reversed positions, similarly divided
by a horizontal line.

5 From Central or Eastern Crete, Candia
Museum, Xanthudides, 'Ec£. 'Ap^., 1907, PI.
VII, 66. Compare, too, the pair of water-fowl
on a black steatite amygdaloid bead-seal from
East Crete (foe. tit., No. 97), and cf. No.' 153
(haematite, E. Crete).

6 'E</i. ApX; 1889, PI. X, 19.