XIII.] THE CAUCASIC PEOPLES. 509 



plays so great a part in European art, while absent from the 

 earliest productions of Asia Minor and the Danubian lands. 

 This motive, however, is shown by Petrie to be ultimately of 

 Egyptian origin, being met on the scarabs of the 4th dynasty. 

 The great development of the spiral and of other foreign designs 

 in Mykenaean art can be explained only on the assumption of 

 contact between Egypt and the ^Egean about 1000 years earlier 

 than had hitherto been supposed 1 . 



1 See p. 20. 



