The palaces of Crete and their builders . Hehn, one of the greatest authorities onthe historical study of animals and plants and well versed in theknowledge of ancient literature, says 4 in his celebrated book that,after carefully studying the Homeric poems- and all the ancientsources, he has arrived at the conclusion that the domesticdove arrived in Greece from Syria at the beginning of the fifthcentury Dawkins, Excavations at Palaikastro, iii., Annual of the British School atAthens, No. x. p. 217. ^ The statuettes are a little over 10 cm. high. 3 II., xxil. 139 ? hort KipKot; ... I fJi]
The palaces of Crete and their builders . Hehn, one of the greatest authorities onthe historical study of animals and plants and well versed in theknowledge of ancient literature, says 4 in his celebrated book that,after carefully studying the Homeric poems- and all the ancientsources, he has arrived at the conclusion that the domesticdove arrived in Greece from Syria at the beginning of the fifthcentury Dawkins, Excavations at Palaikastro, iii., Annual of the British School atAthens, No. x. p. 217. ^ The statuettes are a little over 10 cm. high. 3 II., xxil. 139 ? hort KipKot; ... I fJi]iSiio(^ o(/uj(76 f-iETCi rptipwia TriXsiav, ?? V. Hehn, Kulturpflanzen und Haiisthiere, jth ed., p. WOMAN IN THE ANCIENT RELIGIONS 283 Against this statement, founded on quotations from manyGreek authors, we have the gold figures found by Schliemannin the tombs at Mycenae, representing nude women with doveson their heads and arms, fine gold-leaf ornaments (also fromMycenfe) representing altars and doves, and a Mycenaean ivory. FIG. 136.—TERRACOTTA GROUP FOUND AT PALAIKASTRO BY DR. DAWKINS. mirror-handle with carved doves, which is described by Tsountasand We now know that the domestic dove was common inGreece at least fifteen centuries before our era. At Koumasa,together with the ceramic work of the primitive Minoan epoch,there was found an ivory seal contemporary with the Vlth ^ The Mycenaean Age, p. 187. 284 PALACES OF CRETE AND THEIR BUILDERS Egyptian Dynasty. The incised design represents a dove holdinga young bird under its wing. On a vase of terracotta is a doveof exquisite Fig. 137, a terracotta discoveredby Dr. Evans at Knossos,- shows doves perched on columnswhich resemble those of the Lion gate at Mycenae. The threecolumns are each surmounted by a capital and round logsindicating the roof-beams. On these logs the doves are column has a round base and they all stand on a commonsquare plinth. The colouring is black, red, and wh
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