Transi-
tional
M.M.III-
LM.I«
examples,
Fish in
perspec-
tive.
(Talis-
man ic '
designs.
494 AMYGDALOID BEAD-SEALS: EARLY ILLUSTRATION
Its field was particularly adapted for scenes in which animals
picted at full gallop, as on some fine seal
impressions, probably from stones of this
class already discussed,1 belonging to the
M.M. Ill—L.. M. la phase. To the same
great Transitional Age must be ascribed an
instantaneous sketch of a flying-fish, com-
pared above with those of the fresco (Fig.
429),'2 and the perspective rendering of the
skaros—i. kind of parrot wrasse—with its sea
pasture here reproduced in Fig. 430.3 To it,
too, we must set down the hunting scene
depicting the lassoing of large horned sheep,
and the herd of Cretan goats on another
Cornelian gem from Crete (Fig. 431).4
As has been shown above, it is this class
of stone that was the special vehicle of the
talismanic types, belonging in an over-
whelming degree to L. M. I a and the latest
M.M. Ill phase. By the beginning of the
L. M. I b period, and a date round about
1500 B.C., this form of bead-seal seems to
have practically gone out of use, and, among
thirty-eight intaglios of the Vapheio deposit,
only one, presenting the 'covered chalice'5
f ,, J • • s • , • 1 . u Fig- 430. Cornelian Amygda
ot the talismanic series—obviously to be L0ID. Skaros Fish.
1 As, for instance, the racing lions, /-*. of iVf.,
i, p. 716, Tig. 539, a, and the flying leap of
wild goats (16., Fig. 539, c). It is often diffi-
cult in the case of clay sealings to distinguish
the impressions of bead-seals of this class from
those of signet-rings. The amygdaloid gems
as a rule are 'somewhat more bossed.
" P. of M., iii, pp. 128, 129, and Fig. 84.
3 On a cornelian bead-seal from Lappa, in
West Central Crete, obtained by me in 1895
(see op. at., p. 677, Fig. 498).
1 B.M. Cat. No. 34: presented by Mr. W. R.
Paton in 1884.
s 'Ef Apx- lS89> pl- x> [7-
Fig. 431.
Cornelian Ahvbaloid:
of Cretan Goats.
!«•»
tional
M.M.III-
LM.I«
examples,
Fish in
perspec-
tive.
(Talis-
man ic '
designs.
494 AMYGDALOID BEAD-SEALS: EARLY ILLUSTRATION
Its field was particularly adapted for scenes in which animals
picted at full gallop, as on some fine seal
impressions, probably from stones of this
class already discussed,1 belonging to the
M.M. Ill—L.. M. la phase. To the same
great Transitional Age must be ascribed an
instantaneous sketch of a flying-fish, com-
pared above with those of the fresco (Fig.
429),'2 and the perspective rendering of the
skaros—i. kind of parrot wrasse—with its sea
pasture here reproduced in Fig. 430.3 To it,
too, we must set down the hunting scene
depicting the lassoing of large horned sheep,
and the herd of Cretan goats on another
Cornelian gem from Crete (Fig. 431).4
As has been shown above, it is this class
of stone that was the special vehicle of the
talismanic types, belonging in an over-
whelming degree to L. M. I a and the latest
M.M. Ill phase. By the beginning of the
L. M. I b period, and a date round about
1500 B.C., this form of bead-seal seems to
have practically gone out of use, and, among
thirty-eight intaglios of the Vapheio deposit,
only one, presenting the 'covered chalice'5
f ,, J • • s • , • 1 . u Fig- 430. Cornelian Amygda
ot the talismanic series—obviously to be L0ID. Skaros Fish.
1 As, for instance, the racing lions, /-*. of iVf.,
i, p. 716, Tig. 539, a, and the flying leap of
wild goats (16., Fig. 539, c). It is often diffi-
cult in the case of clay sealings to distinguish
the impressions of bead-seals of this class from
those of signet-rings. The amygdaloid gems
as a rule are 'somewhat more bossed.
" P. of M., iii, pp. 128, 129, and Fig. 84.
3 On a cornelian bead-seal from Lappa, in
West Central Crete, obtained by me in 1895
(see op. at., p. 677, Fig. 498).
1 B.M. Cat. No. 34: presented by Mr. W. R.
Paton in 1884.
s 'Ef Apx- lS89> pl- x> [7-
Fig. 431.
Cornelian Ahvbaloid:
of Cretan Goats.
!«•»