. The palace of Minos : a comparative account of the successive stages of the early Cretan civilization as illustrated by the discoveries at Knossos . Fig. 399. a, Bone Arrow Plume and 6, Fresco Fragment, apparently of LargeGriffins Wing, showing Notched Plume Decoration. Votive The associations in which these objects were found may be taken to Arrows of iniply that they were dedicated to the Minoan Goddess in her quality ofArtemis. Lady of the Chase, so prominent in her later impersonation as Diktynna or Britomartis, identified by the Artemis. On a cornelian lentoid from Crete, in
. The palace of Minos : a comparative account of the successive stages of the early Cretan civilization as illustrated by the discoveries at Knossos . Fig. 399. a, Bone Arrow Plume and 6, Fresco Fragment, apparently of LargeGriffins Wing, showing Notched Plume Decoration. Votive The associations in which these objects were found may be taken to Arrows of iniply that they were dedicated to the Minoan Goddess in her quality ofArtemis. Lady of the Chase, so prominent in her later impersonation as Diktynna or Britomartis, identified by the Artemis. On a cornelian lentoid from Crete, indeed, the Goddess, here of very matronly proportions, is seen in the act of drawing a bow.^ Both specimens of these plumes are smooth below, with two rivet-holes, by means of which they seem to have been attached to a plate of metal. ^ See, too, Knossos, Report, 1903, p. 61. ^ Furtwangler, Antike Gemmen, PI. ii, 24; Berlin, Katalog, No. 2. Ill: MINOAN FRESCO: WALL-PAINTINGS, ETC. 549. Their lower ends, too, are sawn off as if for attachment by means of a collarto a metal shaft. The stem of the arrow is ornamented with grooves, insome of which is a red inlaying material and traces of this are also seenbetween the plumes. These are artificially cut in a series of crested waves,outlined in relief against the red background. The curious method of notching the plumes that we see on thesevotive arrows seems to have had a wider religious association in MinoanArt. It is also applied to the wings of Sphinxes and Griffins. It occurs,for example, on the wings of a Griffin (Fig. 400) ^ in the minature style that took its rise in the transitionalepoch, about the close of theMiddle or the beginning ofthe Late Minoan Age. Inthese cases it is often coupledwith an asterisk mark—itselfa stellar-symbol—which alsoappears in place of the simplestar-cross on the Cow ofHathor. A part of a wing,belonging apparently to alarge figure of a Sphinx orGriffin found in the frescoheap to the
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