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The palaces of Crete and their builders (1907)

Mosso, A. (Angelo), 1846-1910 · London, Unwin · leaf 143

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Evans, The Palace of Knossos, 1900, p. 57. 134 PALACES OF CRETE AND THEIR BUILDERS their back hair falls in waves. They wear a ribbon across thebrow, it is the fillet which we find later on the heads of thegoddesses of the classical period and in the tetradrachms ofAttica and Syracuse. These… … FIG. 59.—FRESCO FROM KXOSSOS. women are present on all festive occasions. In front of a templethey are grouped under the trees in animated conversation ; theyhave white skins and the men are dark, in accordance with theconventions of Egyptian and Etruscan painting. Some hold outtheir hand in…

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