Artistic

designs

succeed

the

merely

magical.

542 THE WOUNDED WILD-GOAT: TALISMANIC MOTIVES

But this well-clelined and summarily engraved M. M. Ill__J- ]yr t

class of engraved talismanic beads was from the first accompanied by mor
select intaglios, on which, though a magical object may also have beei

Fig. 495. Three-sided Cornelian Bead-seal or M. M. Ill Class : from Central Crete

served, the chief aim was artistic effect. An M. M. 11—111 lentoid of the early
flat-sided type,1 Fig. 496, already gives a pictorial view of a wild-goat
struck by a javelin as he flees over the rocks. The libation vessels so

Fig. 496. 'Flat-sided

Lentoid : Burnt Agate,

MM. II-III.

Fig. 497. Amuletic
Bead ofAmethystwith

Lateral Perforation
showing Flying Eagle.

often set forth by themselves on the talismanic series pass into the ^
of Minoan Genii, as adapted to completely ritual scenes. 1 he ' ny|nS .
charm also takes a fuller and more artistic form on a Hagia lna
impression.2 The fish talisman is incorporated in the fuller design
form—occurred in the ' Drain-Shaft Deposit' » B.M. Cat, PI. II, no. 87, described (P-^
of M. M. Ill* date {P. of M, ill, p. 411, as a 'burnt agate'. The exaggerated^P^^g
Fig. 273). The linear marks on Fig. 497 do gation of the horns seems to place 111s
not seem to be signs of script (as I had at first early specimens of this type of sea
supposed). The flying eagle later became the " See p. 490, Fig. 424 above,
type of the coins of Lyltfos.