Hagia Triada
Harvester vase, detail. Steatite vase. A procession is led by a man with
long straggly hair and no headdress. He wears an odd bell-shaped garment
which looks either to be scaly or quilted, and is fringed at the bottom.
Similar garments are worn by men appearing on palatial seal impressions. The
man holds a stick and may be a priest leading the workers in some autumn
ritual. No specific sacral symbols are evident, however.
by Joan Aruz
