500

EXAMPLES OF 'FLATTENED CYLINDERS'

Gold-
plated
specimen
from
Palai-
kastro.

horns, pursued by a clog over scale-like rocks.1 Of finer style, thouo-h of co
temporary execution, with similar long horns, is the agrimi leaping over roc.

ground, with a tree behind, obtained
by me from Rethymnos, and here
reproduced (Fig, 439). The stone,
a very beautiful banded ao-ate'
presents the peculiarity of having
two perforations, and on orounds
of style the intaglio may be placed
within the borders of M. M. II b. A
chalcedony example from Knossos
(Fig. 440, and Suppl. PL LIV, c),
of more or less contemporary date, shows a fisherman in exceptional loin
clothing holding a skaros fish and an octopus on a string. This may date
from early M.M. III.

Of special interest among early examples of the ' flat cylinder' class is
that reproduced in Fig. 441,s obtained by me from a peasant on the
site of Palaikastro, in 1894, where the stone, consisting of black steatite, is

Gold
beads of
this class
with fine
intaglios.

Fig. 439. ' Flat Cylinder ' Cornelian :
Rethymnos, M.M. II (}).

Fig. 4-10. Chalcedon

Knossos (NW. of Sit:

M. M. Ill (f).

41. Gold-plated
:te ' Flat Cylinder ':
CASTRO, M. M. Ill (I).

Fig. 442. L. M. II Example,
Tomb, Isopata, Chai.-
Gold-Mounted (fj-

ROYA

CEDONY

o-old

covered—as were small reliefs on vases in the same material—with thin ^
plate (cf. Suppl. PL LIV, b). This is impressed into a design of dolphins
swimming, with rock-work in front, of the naturalistic style commo ^
M. M. II b and M. M. III. The object here was to imitate an engraved go-
bead of this form, and it will be seen that ' flat cylinders ' of gold wer< ■
ciated with some of the finest intaglio designs of Mycenae

1 A flat cylinder of banded agate in a some- Carian island of Syme.
what similar style, showing a Griffin seizing - Cf. P. of M., ', p. 675, Fig.
a deer (Berl. Cat., No. 51) came from the

Id

and ThisW,