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28 29 30. MonAnt XIV (1904) 618:Fig.88. Dates for Minoan-Mycenean glyptic representations in this paper are those of H. Biesanz unless otherwise indicated.
29 31. Ephem 1889 Pl.10:18 (PM III 124 Fig.74 and Bossert Pl.231:a). 30 32. PM I 377 Fig.274 dated by Evans ibid to "the transition from the Middle to the Late Minoan Age"; also PM IV Pt.2, 500:e and Bossert Pl.238:i. 31 33. PM IV Pt.2, 563. Cf. especially Fig.532-4, the last of which is, however, a cow. Cf. also ibid p.609:m, which Biesanz, p.134 dates LM I-II. 32 34. Cf. A.Furumark, The Chronology of Mycenean Pottery (Stockholm 1941) 110. -33- 34 35. Cf. Odyssey IV:404,450 . In any case, in spite of a dearth of surviving i illustrations, there is ample proof that seals were well known in the Mediterranean impre-Classical times. See O.Keller, Die Antike Tierwelt (Leipzig 1909) 407 ff; RE sv.Robbe. Prof. Porada has suggested that these creatures might represent Scylla, 35 36. For a similar unmistakable representation of this idea cf. Karo Schachtgräber 226 Fig.95. 36 37. Cf. AAA 28(1948) 19; T.Leibovitch "Griffons" 'ATIQOT Journal of the Israel Dept of Antiquities I (1955) 75-88. 37 38. Cf. e.g., Hesperia 9 (1940) 208 Fig.29. 38 39. Karo,No.747 Pl.XCII (Bossert Pl.86:166). Karo,p.345, suggests a terminus ante quem for these graves of ca. 1500 B.C. AJB.Wace (Mycenae p.87) dates Graves 1-5 at 1600 to 1500 B.C. 39 40. PM I 712 Fig.536; cf. also Bossert Pl.37:53 dated c. 1500 B.C. 40 41. Mycenae Pl.97a. The megaron itself has a terminus post quem of 1350 B.C. (see p.89) The pattern on the vertical edge of the hearth in the throne room at Pylos: AJA 57 (1953) Pl.34 Fig.7 may also be cited as related. 41 42. The only remotely similar motif of those collected by Furumark is the crested rock pattern: cf. MP 323 Fig.54. It can be seen at once that the Bamboula pattern is quite another thing. 42 43. ABSA 49 (1954) Pl.39a (LH IIIB); Hesperia 9(1940) 289 Fig.31 (early part of
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