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PRIEST'S HEAD AND SISTRUM PLAYER'S

as the caricature of a head of a bearded man. His hair, abnormally short
for a Minoan man, is slightly coiled at its end, his nose is somewhat snub,
he has a heavy jaw and strong sinews to his neck, his mouth is open as if

he were raising his voice and he wears a
slightly pointed beard. That this is not
intended for a caricature in any sense of
the word, but in fact represents a definite
class of personage, can hardly be doubted
when it is compared with the head of the
elderly sistrum player1 on the ' Harvester's'

Com-
pared
with
sistrum-

player
of Har-
vester's
' rhyton'

Fig. 167<i, *. Two Sides of Black Stea- Fig. 168. Sistrum-player leading

tite Bead-seal from ' Little Palace!: Revel Rout on 'Harvester's' Vase,

a. Head of Bull (abeaded) ; It, Head of Hagia Triada (f).

Chanting Priest as if leading Orgias-
tic Dance (§).

Vase from Hagia Triada. In this most spirited of all Minoan compositions
—a section of which is given in Fig. 169 -—he is seen chanting open-
mouthed at the head of the revel rout, immediately followed by three
younger members of his special choir, singing the same refrain.

Drawings of both heads are given in Fig. 167, i>, and Fig. 168, and it
will be seen that the profile of both presents a distinct resemblance. The
' sistrum ' player also has a markedly heavy jowl, and his neck shows the
same triple sinews. The most obvious distinction is that the head upon the

' Repeated from P. of M., ii, Pt. I, p. 47, an advanced age. See P. of'If., iii, PP- 449>

Fig. 22 i. 4So.

1 The broad belt of this figure is a mark of