. The palace of Minos : a comparative account of the successive stages of the early Cretan civilization as illustrated by the discoveries at Knossos . e cross as a sign of divinity seeL. Muller, Eehgme Symboler of Siierne-, Kors-, og Cirkel-Form, &c., p. 7 seqq. As specificallya star sign, a cross appears above the headsof the Dioscuri, e. g. on a bronze coin ofCaracalla, struck at Tripolis in Syria [pp. cit.,p. 8, a; B. M. Cat. : -Phoenicia {Q. F. Hill),PL XXVII, 18, andp 218. ^ See above, p. 479. E<^. Ap^., 1900, PL 3, above. M. M. Ill: THE SNAKE GODDESS AND RELICS 515 world and of the st
. The palace of Minos : a comparative account of the successive stages of the early Cretan civilization as illustrated by the discoveries at Knossos . e cross as a sign of divinity seeL. Muller, Eehgme Symboler of Siierne-, Kors-, og Cirkel-Form, &c., p. 7 seqq. As specificallya star sign, a cross appears above the headsof the Dioscuri, e. g. on a bronze coin ofCaracalla, struck at Tripolis in Syria [pp. cit.,p. 8, a; B. M. Cat. : -Phoenicia {Q. F. Hill),PL XXVII, 18, andp 218. ^ See above, p. 479. E<^. Ap^., 1900, PL 3, above. M. M. Ill: THE SNAKE GODDESS AND RELICS 515 world and of the starry vault of Night. Associated with the cresent the crosson the mould might be taken specifically to represent the Evening Star. Cruciform symbols of more than one kind appear on several relics from Crthe Temple Repositories. The Swastika, or Criix Gammata, is seen on symbolsa clay seal impression of which eighteen examples occurred (Fig. 372). It is ? Seal-there placed over a horned sheep exactly resembling the animal seen on a seal- NfRe-°™type found in the Pictographic deposit of the Palace, in that case performing P°°y- cruci-form.
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