i24 INTAGLIO TYPES DERIVED FROM PAINTED RELIEFS

cruciform fashion. As in the case of the duck-hunting scene described above,
Egypt, we see, was never far from the mind of these Cretan artificers, and it
might be suggested that a certain slimness visible in the rendering of the

Frag-
ment of
painted
relief of
lion from
S.E.
Palace
Angle.

Intaglio

types

derived

from

painted

reliefs.

Fig. 74. Lion seizing Bull on
Lentoid Intaglio : Vapheio Tomb.

75. Lion seizing Bull :
seal, Thisbe.

Gold Bead-

armed hunters on the other side of this dagger-blade may have been the
work of a craftsman steeped in the knowledge of Egyptian Art. It con-
trasts with the more sinewy portrayal of male
forms usual in Minoan works.

Of the lion in the painted decoration of the
Minoan World we possess, among existing
remains, only the fragment of stucco relief show-
ing part of the neck and mane, with traces of red
paint, from the South-East Angle of the Knossian
Palace.1 Doubtless the lions of the Mycenae
Gate were also coated with painted stucco. But
the dearth of actual pictorial remains is made
up for by a numerous series of seal types, many
of them.no doubt, excerpted from scenes on fresco
panels. On an onyx lentoid from the Vapheio
tomb,2 indeed, we see a seated lion upon a graduated base (Fig. 76),
such as has been already shown to be an architectonic feature.3 Elsewhere
a couchant lion appears on a similar stepped base.4

In one case a warrior, armed with a spear and an 8-shaped body-shield

1 P. of M., ii, Pt. I, p. 333, Fig. 188. 3 P. of M., i, p. 686 seqq. Compare Figs.

' On a sardonyx amygdaloid also from the 503, 6, 504, 505, and p. 688, Figs. 506-8.

Vapheio tomb. 'E<p. 'Apx-, 1899, PI. X, 27, * 'E<j>. 'Apx., 1889, PI. X, 3.
and p. 167.

Fig. 76. Seated Lion
on Lentoid Intaglio : Va-
pheio Tomb.