490 LENTOID TYPES—FROM THE END OF M. M
bead. ' The steatite bead-seal' found in the Little Palace,

II

presenting the

"'■"'"-1 's placed by

Like the flat-

head of a chaunting priest, here reproduced in Fis;
its find circumstances well within the borders of M. M. III.
edged class, it has a device
on both faces. At the same
time the strongly character-
ized portraiture maintains the
tradition of the M. M. 11 clay-
sealing of the 'Priest King'
from the Hieroglyphic De-
posit, though the facial type
is very different.2

It is fairly clear that the
bulk of the fantastic types on clay sealings from Zakro and elsewhere,1 the

TheZakro earlier.examples of which maybe safely attributed to the M. M. Ill Period,

sealim- belonged to lentoid'types.

Lentoid
type in
vogue by
M.M.IIi

Fig. 420. Sphinx
(from Zakro).

Fig. 421. Eyed Butter
flies (from kkossos).

Fig. 422. Sealing of Lentoid „ ,n qe1l-

Type Hieroglyphic De- Fig. 423. Sealing from Fig. 424. Flying a"
posit : Knossos. (M.M. II.j Temple Repository. ing : H. Iriad, •

These are more fancy free than any other class of intaglio ces -
to be found either in the Ancient or the Modern World. An any
is supplied by the fondness of the artists for wings of all kinds o '

butterflies, and bats. What could be a more graceful composition t an
facing Sphinx, here reproduced (Fig. 420)?'' Its eyed wings are sugge ^
of a peacock butterfly, such as we see in a triple coil on a seal imp
from the Palace site at Knossos (Fig. 421), itself of this fantastic c

1 See above, p. 21S, Fig. 167 4. < p. of M., i, p. 7°5. F'S' D'9' ''

' See above, p. 474, Fig. S99. ■ " lb.', Fig. 529, d.

3 See P. ofM., i, p. 701 seqq.