474

PROTO-ARMENOID PROFILE

' Proto-
Arme-
noid'
physio-
gnomy.

Fig. 399. Seal Impres-
sion FROM HeiROGIATHIC

Deposit.

though the character of the loin covering still shows that the personage he
represented had not altogether reached the adult stage.

The mouth is small and well-shaped and the eyelids are slio-htl-
rendered as a narrow border above and below the
eye-balls. The outer ridge of the lower part of the
nose has been unfortunately flaked off, but what
remains suggests, in spite of the general boyish
features, an original profile presenting marked signs
of aquilinity. (See Fig. 398.)

The character of the profile, indeed, has a
great interest as in keeping with the ' proto-Ar-
menoid' type so visibly reflected in the Middle
Minoan seal impression already referred to, Fig.
399.: We have here a prince representing what
seems then to have been the dominant ethnic ele-
ment in the Island. His nose con-
trasts with the less accentuated forms
more usually portrayed in Late Mi-
noan Art, as for instance, in the Cup-
bearer fresco. But the young God
was still figured in the likeness of
this old ruling race of Anatolian kin-
ship. So, too, we have seen that the
Herakles-like champion of the bull-
ring, who, as shown on a seal-type,
Fig. 400, bears on his shoulders a
mighty beast, shows the same highly
accentuated profile.2 This, indeed, is
quite in accordance with the evidence
that the Sports of the Minoan arena
came from the same Anatolian side.
The more tender years of the
little boy-God previously described might well preclude die appearanc
such features. In that case the nose is distinctly ' tip-tilted ' (Fig- ° •

Fig. 400. Champion Taureadoe
porting Bull : Green Jasper Lemoid,
Mycenae.

1 See P. of It.,
Fig. 201, a.

p. 8, Fig. 2 and p. 272

Cf. P. o/M., iii, pp. 33°

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