522

TRUSSED DOGS AND LIONS

at work on a tall jar—seated beneath a tree and relaxing himself '
a game of draughts on a table in front (Fig. 404, i, 2). Beneath r

hand is a draughts

man of the conical
Egyptian form
(Fig. im,i,Cle,f)t
preserved in use at
Knossos till the
latest days of the
Palace. The board
and men are still
better shown

Fig. 466. E.M. Ill Bead-seal:
Malua.

Fig. 468. Cornelian
Lentoid from Crete : Mi-
noan Genius as Hunter
carrying Lions on Pole.

Fig. 467. Seal Impression (M.M.
III-L.M. la): H. Triada.

on

an ivory signet

of M.M. Ill from

Hagia Triada (Fig.

465, a). The crossed dogs (Fig. 464, 3)

also compare with later Minoan animal

types on seals.

The pots play a prominent part in
the hieroglyphic seals of the succeeding
Trussed Middle Minoan phase, though the potters themselves entirely vanish
from the scene. An interesting ' tabloid' bead from Mallia,1 however,
engraved on four sides, depicts a huntsman bearing on a pole that rests
on his shoulder two agrimls strung up with crossed fore and hind legs
(Fig. 466) in the same way as we see potters on other early bead-seals
carrying their vessels. For this method of transporting the quarry it is possi-
ble to cite a considerably later sphragistic example. This occurs on a c ay
impression of a gem of the 'flat cylinder' type from Zakro, belong"»
to the transitional M.M. Ill Ml. M. \a epoch,2 on which two men ^_re
depicted in the act of trussing for suspension the legs of a huge lion (r ig- r
Here the transference of the subject from the indigenous wild-goat 0
greater beast, of Mainland range, is itself very characteristic of the
advanced stage of Minoan Art. As a supplement to this the Cretan

lentoid from the Vapheio Tomb ('E-p- A»'
Furtwtagler, A-

wild-
goats on
pole.

Lion

trussed on
later

sealing.

1 From M
now A. E.

R. B. Seager's Collection;

- First published by Doro Levi, Lc Cre/i/k I'
Haghia Triada e di Zakro {Animario dello.
r. Scuola Arckeologica di Atcne, cVr., 1929)

8S9, PI. X, 38
. 13). The same operation

is being cam*

bouiw

di Haghia Triada e di Zakro (Ammario della out, but the lion's legs are n0 J he some'

p. n6.[i8a],"Fig. 231, and PI. XVIII,

there compared with the intaglio on a jasper sion.

together. The Vapheio gem wm,ld ^mprcs-
It is what later in date than the H. Tria a