. The palace of Minos : a comparative account of the successive stages of the early Cretan civilization as illustrated by the discoveries at Knossos . ptured lamp bear sufficient seems probable that it was occupied by some priestly functionary. ^ An analogy is suggested by the cuirass, ^ See below, p. 506, Fig. 364. with its reticulated body and pleated flounce, MycenaeanTree andFtl/ar Cult,p. io2seqq. worn by the rustic leader of the harvesters on At Tekekioi in North Macedonia. It was neces- the H. Triada rhyton (Savignoni, Mon. Ant, saryto tie an under-garment round the holy pill
. The palace of Minos : a comparative account of the successive stages of the early Cretan civilization as illustrated by the discoveries at Knossos . ptured lamp bear sufficient seems probable that it was occupied by some priestly functionary. ^ An analogy is suggested by the cuirass, ^ See below, p. 506, Fig. 364. with its reticulated body and pleated flounce, MycenaeanTree andFtl/ar Cult,p. io2seqq. worn by the rustic leader of the harvesters on At Tekekioi in North Macedonia. It was neces- the H. Triada rhyton (Savignoni, Mon. Ant, saryto tie an under-garment round the holy pillar xiii, PI. Ill, and cf. seahng, p. 42, Fig. 9). and to lie down for the night within sight of it. F f 2 436 THE PALACE OF MINOS, ETC. The engraving of the Sacred Double Axe on a block of the pillar here,in addition to placing its actual base before it, has now received a newand striking illustration. In the Middle Minoan Palace, lately discovered by Dr. Hatzidakis at Malia, some 20 miles East of Candia on the same Northern Coast, an l^llia analogous Pillar Crypt was brought to light with a pillar of the exceptional PillarCrypt ofEarlyPalaceat. 10 I 310 I 410 I 510 Fig. 313. Huge Ritual Double Axe from Sanctuary of Nirou Khani, NEAR KnOSSOS, I-20 METRE IN DIAM. dimensions of a metre on every side. Here, too, on one of the blocks, wasa Double Axe symbol, in this case deeply incised.^ In face of such striking analogies there can no longer be any hesitationin accepting the view that the Double Axe signs on the pillars ^ of the twob?isement chambers of the Palace have a direct relation to that form ofMinoan cult of which, at a later date, the scene on the Sarcophagus of HagiaTriada affords such a graphic illustration. KpriTLKTi E(j), Oct. 5, 1919. has kindly supplied me with aphotograph of the pillar, of which two layers ofmassive blocks are preserved. The DoubleAxe sign is on one of the lower of these, andin the sharp character of its incision resemblesthat
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