. The palace of Minos : a comparative account of the successive stages of the early Cretan civilization as illustrated by the discoveries at Knossos . Fig. 367. Faience Plaque, Cow and Calf : Temple Repositories (| c). clung to her to a much later day under her indigenous names of Diktynnaand Britomartis. This aspect of the cult is indeed further illustrated bythe votive arrow plumes of bone found in the Western Repository.^ We are led, however, in a very different direction by the companionpiece supplied by another series of reliefs, the parts of which were of varyingdimensions, showing a cow
. The palace of Minos : a comparative account of the successive stages of the early Cretan civilization as illustrated by the discoveries at Knossos . Fig. 367. Faience Plaque, Cow and Calf : Temple Repositories (| c). clung to her to a much later day under her indigenous names of Diktynnaand Britomartis. This aspect of the cult is indeed further illustrated bythe votive arrow plumes of bone found in the Western Repository.^ We are led, however, in a very different direction by the companionpiece supplied by another series of reliefs, the parts of which were of varyingdimensions, showing a cow suckling a calf (Fig. 367). In this case we seean architectural basis with a striped border as in painted stucco imitations ^ See below, p. 548, Fig. 399, a. 512 THE PALACE OF MINOS, ETC. w\ f of banded stones. An interesting fragment, Fig. 368, shows a similar bandforming part of a faience bracket or console, stepping back below in theMinoan fashion. In this connexion it is important to note that a base withthe same stonework imitation occurred in painted stucco beneath the Griffin Frieze belonging to the great EastHall of the Palace, to be describedunder L. M. I.^ With it was also founda console in the same material, analo-gous to the- miniature example infaience. These parallels may be takento indicate that the faience panels wereset in like fashion against the backwall of the little shrines to which theseremains very natural figure of another suckling calf, from a faience panel ofsomewhat smaller dimensions, is given in Fig. 369. The forelegs are hereshown in a kneeling position, and the loose, angular limbed frame of theyoung animal is very skilfully brought out. Fig. 368. Faience Bracket or Console.
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