REFLECTION ON SEAL-TYPES

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a characteristic Minoan type : (Fig. 202) represented among the earlier speci-
mens of this class of weapon from the Zafer Papoura cemetery at Knossos.

Fig. 202. Part of Bronze ' Horned ' Sword (L. M. I) from Gezer, Palestine.

The combina-
tion of a succes-
sion of Minoan
8-shaped shields
with a decorative
band of spirals and
rosettes, of which
we have such a fine
example in the poly-
chrome cup and the
' Palace Style' am-
199, above, affords the

Fig. 203. L. M. lb
Sherd, Gezer, Pales-
tine.

Fig. 204. Clay Seal-impression show-
ing Lower Part of Three Warriors
with Body-shields above Spiral Frieze.

phora illustrated in Fi

surest proof that the shields on the painted vases

were in fact a reflection of some such imposing

prototypes on the Palace walls as we see in the

' Shield Fresco'of thestaircaseloggia. Aclayseal- Reflec-

impression, unfortunately much broken, derived shield

from the 'Treasury' of the Domestic Quarter, fr,ezesm

afforded the same evidence of this architectonic types.

origin—a row of three shields of this form being

there connected, as in the fresco, by a spiral band.

The same material, moreover, supplies an in-
Fig. 205. Clay Seal-impres- ,. • r ., • . c 11 1 r

sign showing Three Warriors dication of the existence of a parallel group of

with 8-shaped Body-shields. frescoes presenting rows of the warriors them-
selves holding the great body-shields at their
sides. The clay impression (Fig. 204),2 found beneath the landing of the

1 Macalisler, op. tit, ii, PI. LXXV, 13. Its " See, too, P. of M., i, p. 694, Fig. 510.
length without the point is 26-5 cm.