REACTION OF 'EGYPTO-MINOAN' SCROLLS

the principle 'noscitur a sociis' will be found as useful a guide as in other
cases. Where, then, we are able definitely to assign certain special motives

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Fig. 187. ' Egypto-Minoan ' Decorative Scrolls and their Reaction at Mycenae.

among" the spiraliform elements of the Mycenae gravestones to this 'Egypto-
Minoan ' family, a strong presumption arises that other simpler ingredients
met with in the same connexion belong to the same category, although
they themselves may be of a less specialized kind, and in themselves capable
of having been taken from a much wider circle of similar forms. It is an
undoubted fact that the ' Egypto-Minoan' group illustrated by the Table of
Fig. 1S7 is itself to a large extent allied to a wider ornamental province,