The palaces of Crete and their builders . rom the appearance of a woman in the procession fresco at Knossos. She wears a petticoat adorned with elegantembroidery. The men walk towards her and are all shod. In the fresco of the temple we have seen that a woman The material is grey marble with white veins. It is 22 cm. high andis cut out of a slab 12 millimetres thick. On a Mycenaean seal there is a crosswith a long vertical shaft ; a gold cross like a modern pendant was found atMycenas and another, of porcelain, at Knossos. ^ Knossos Excavations, p. 92, 1903. 276 PALACES OF CRETE AND THEIR BUIL
The palaces of Crete and their builders . rom the appearance of a woman in the procession fresco at Knossos. She wears a petticoat adorned with elegantembroidery. The men walk towards her and are all shod. In the fresco of the temple we have seen that a woman The material is grey marble with white veins. It is 22 cm. high andis cut out of a slab 12 millimetres thick. On a Mycenaean seal there is a crosswith a long vertical shaft ; a gold cross like a modern pendant was found atMycenas and another, of porcelain, at Knossos. ^ Knossos Excavations, p. 92, 1903. 276 PALACES OF CRETE AND THEIR BUILDERS is placed on a high seat near the sacred horns. The privilegedcondition of woman in religious rites is conspicuous both inthe Minoan civilisation and in that of Etruria, and is one linkin the chain of evidence that they are related. In this particularboth differ from the civilisations of the East. When the religionof Crete was transported to Delos, as the historians relate,it was the priestesses who made the temple of Apollo famous,. FIG. 135.—MARBLE CROSS FOUND AMOXGST CULTUS OBJECTS ATKXOSSOS BY DR. EVAXS. and maidens crowned with flowers danced in a ring round thealtar. The priestesses represent a root idea ol Greek religion,and the Etruscans brought this idea to North Italy before theGreeks colonised the South. Etruscan processions, • pompce andsacrifices were all copied from the worship in Argos, Mycena:% andTiryns. The honour paid to woman in Etruria, her equality withmen at feasts and sacrifices, justifies us in assuming an affinity WOMAN IN THE ANCIENT RELIGIONS 277 between Etruria and Argos. In Etruria the importance of womanin the family was greater than in the Greece of the classical the Minoan civilisation and in Etruria sons took the nameof their mother. Other analogies are plainly to be seen inarchitecture, art, and costume. Livy, in his account of Tana-quil coming to Rome, says that Etruscan women acted aspriestesses. I IV. In order to visit th
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