. Mazes and labyrinths; a general account of their history and developments. -- t ?:.*?-;? ??.>_?;?..;. Fig. 11. Knossos. View of Cist, showing shape of Double Axe.(From Archceologia, by kind permission of the Society of Antiquaries and Sir Arthur Evans.) (Fig. 9). Moreover, in more recent excavations a curioustomb was found (Figs. 10 and 11) which was double-. Fig. 10.—.Knossos. Plan of Tomb of Double Axes, showing position in which relics were found. (From Archaeologia, by kind permission of the Society of Antiquaries and Sir Arthur Evans.) axe shaped in plan and was evidently the reposit
. Mazes and labyrinths; a general account of their history and developments. -- t ?:.*?-;? ??.>_?;?..;. Fig. 11. Knossos. View of Cist, showing shape of Double Axe.(From Archceologia, by kind permission of the Society of Antiquaries and Sir Arthur Evans.) (Fig. 9). Moreover, in more recent excavations a curioustomb was found (Figs. 10 and 11) which was double-. Fig. 10.—.Knossos. Plan of Tomb of Double Axes, showing position in which relics were found. (From Archaeologia, by kind permission of the Society of Antiquaries and Sir Arthur Evans.) axe shaped in plan and was evidently the repository of agiant emblem (Fig. 12. See plate, p. 42). Long before Dr. Evans excavations in Crete the great 33 German archaeologist Schliemann, during his researchesat Mycenae on the mainland, unearthed from one of thegraves an ox-head of gold plate, with a double axe be-tween the upright horns. The double axe was also thesign of the Zeus worshipped at Labraunda in Caria, acountry to the north-east of Crete, on the mainland ofAsia Minor, where the implement was known as thelabrys. The cult of the bull was also much in evidence in thepalace remains. Schliemann, in excavating the site ofTiryns in 1884, came across an extraordinary wall-painting depicting a man holding one horn of a greatbull whilst he leaps over its back, the animal meanwhilecharging at full sp
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