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Updated: May 17, 2025
Were they conceivably responsible for the 'imported alabaster vases dating from the Middle Kingdom of Egypt, which were found in the royal tomb at Isopata? Towards the close of this epoch the ceramic art of Knossos shows features which are directly attributable to Egyptian influence.
The King who built the great tomb at Isopata, already described, must have reigned at Knossos during this period. Late Minoan I. In this period we come into touch with a great deal of the fine work of the Royal Villa at Hagia Triada, which has been already described.
Andrew Lang has made the picturesque suggestion that we may have here an anticipation of the duelling custom of the Elizabethan age, in which the dagger was held in the left hand, and used for parrying thrusts, or for work at close quarters, as in the savage encounter between Sir Hatton Cheek and Sir Thomas Dutton at Calais in 1610. On the hill of Isopata, between Knossos and the sea, Dr.
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