564 BUCOLIC SCENES ON MINOAN SIGNETS

,-. already coming into vogue. On a late seal impression from
K^soTwe I've" before us what might well be taken as a scene fr0m

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Fig. 532. 'The Prize Ox': Restored

Design on Impression, probably of Gold

Signet (Archives Deposit), Knossos.

Fig. 533. Countermarked

Sealing (Archives Deposit) :

Boy leading Beast.

Fig. 534. Boy milking Cow : from

Seal Impression (Archives Deposit),

Knossos.

Fig. 535. Red Jasper Lentoid.

a cattle show, in which the owner complacently gazes on his prize ox,
Fig 532. On another sealing- from the same hoard (Fig. 533), counter-
marked by a sign of the Linear Class B, a boy is leading a walking beast
and on the complement to this (Fig. 534) another is seen milking a cow.
On a red Jasp 1 .d (pig. „35) 2 a maie exc ionall clad, guides

o mutri ' 7 -u e ^^ Cl'etan SPecime^ of mottled agate (Fig. 586) a man

tr*rfn ^ fnding bGhind the animal-like the Minoan Genius o

„. abb, 0 (p. 443) above-holds in a similar way a rope attached to its horns."

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