504 TUMBLING FIGURES—NILOTIC AND MINOAN

j-eun group, otherwise the elongated three-sided form is unique amongst Nilotic

nKarnak objects of the kind, and corresponds with that of the later pictography and

irism. the hieroglyphic seals of Crete. It surely indicates a reaction from that

side. The double animal in fact resembles a Cretan wild-goat. '(Cf. Fig. 44g \

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EARLW CRETAN



HUMAN AND ANIfAAL TYPES

ON KARNAK PRiSn. AND ALLIED

CYLINDERS COMPARED WITH

MINOAN FORMS

[GEOMETRICAL!

Fig. 448. Comparative Table of Early Nilotic and Minoan Types.

This prism seal, like the cylinders with similar figures, must in fact be

grouped together with a whole family of' button-seals ', the reversed designs

on which have been shown, in the first volume of Scripta Mi/ioa,1 to nave

had a marked influence on a series of Minoan seal-stones, mostly of the ear},

compact.three-sided class, but some of them also preserving the button snap •

If to this be added the influence of certain ' tabloids ' and oblong sea s,

belonging to the same group,3 it will be seen how far-reaching were the ene

of the later wave of old Nilotic elements on the glyptic Art of Crete i ^

about the close of the Early Minoan Age onwards, and which, as shown

the Karnak prism, seem to have had a reaction on the Egyptian side.

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It is possible, indeed, after the lapse of many years, to repeat

1 &-<)WaM»?iJ,i,p.i25,Fig:65;TableXX. s See lb., i, p. 122, F'g- 91'
Cf., too, P. of ML, i, p. 124, Fig. 92. materials are steatite and limestone.

1 See P. ofM., i, Fig. 260, b, <r(opp. p. 358).

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