We have an analogous example of this kind of technique in the faïence House-Façades of Knossos. 58, for the busts en face made separate from the skirts, and (though these were not found), probably, for the heads in profile fitted on to the busts, etc. The relief part of the composition was apparently made up of separate pieces fitted on to each other, and it is in this way apparently that we may account for the separate girdles shown in B.S.A. The suggestion that what we really see is one side of these gowns, fits in with this conception of the composition, since it is well known that in Minoan art all figures painted in the flat or in relief, appear in profile, the bust, however, as here, being shown en face. The side of these invisible in the illustrations is left rough: this suggests that they belonged to figures appearing in relief-profile on the background of an elaborate ritual composition, which had the Snake Goddess, Votaries, etc. note 2 I suggest that these are side-panels, because otherwise the front and back parts of the polonaise have to be conceived as shifted to either side, which does not seem probable. The later Cretan palaces, on the other hand, according to the same authority, were built by people of Achaean, and so of Hellenic race. According to this hypothesis, the originators and representatives of the Aegean civilization were Carians from southwest Anatolia, and it was they, according to Doerpfeld, who built the earlier palaces of Crete. But the attempt to give a positive form to this conclusion has led to the revival of an old hypothesis which is perhaps not so entirely out of date as has lately been supposed. And here it will be convenient to take as our point of departure a standpoint that may now perhaps be regarded as pretty general, though negative in its bearings, and which is to the effect that the originators of the Aegean civilization, at any rate in its pre-Mycenaean phases, were not ‘Achaeans’ in the vague general sense of being a people from the mainland of Greece. That the implications of the question are of an ethnological character will at this stage in the inquiry be generally admitted. The Carian Hypothesis as to the Origins of the Aegean Civilization. The European Front History of Western Civilization II The European Front 31.4: The European Front 31.4. It will now be advisable to consider the problems involved on a wider basis, in the light of the objects other than architectural, found in Crete and elsewhere in the Aegean world. In my previous paper on Cretan Palaces and the Aegean Civilization I sought to give a general account of the architectural evidence resulting from excavation, in its bearing on the disputed question as to the continuity of Aegean culture throughout the course of its development.
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