The palaces of Crete and their builders . FIG. io4(;. FIG. 104/. GOLD CUP FROM VAPHIO, IX THE MUSEUM AT ATHENS. seen it the figure be observed with attention. The other is aman, and both are dressed in the same fashion as the gymnastsot Crete. Tsountas and others who have spoken of this cup think thatit represents a hunting scene with wild bulls, and that the furiousanimal, after throwing down one ot the hunters, has caught up theother on his horns. Against this explanation is the fact that thetwo persons struggling with the bull have nothing in their handsto lasso him with. If the bull had tr
The palaces of Crete and their builders . FIG. io4(;. FIG. 104/. GOLD CUP FROM VAPHIO, IX THE MUSEUM AT ATHENS. seen it the figure be observed with attention. The other is aman, and both are dressed in the same fashion as the gymnastsot Crete. Tsountas and others who have spoken of this cup think thatit represents a hunting scene with wild bulls, and that the furiousanimal, after throwing down one ot the hunters, has caught up theother on his horns. Against this explanation is the fact that thetwo persons struggling with the bull have nothing in their handsto lasso him with. If the bull had transfixed the hunter with hishorns, the latter would have had her head up and not downward. I asked M. Gillieron, the artist (who is the most competent in Mvcena;.inart), to make me a drawing of the part which represents the taurokathapsia, and Iam grateful to him tor doing me this favour. B ULL- GRA PPLING 225 No doctor can allow that this woman is wounded, for she isholding on with her knee bent over one horn and her shoulderresting aga
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