. The palace of Minos : a comparative account of the successive stages of the early Cretan civilization as illustrated by the discoveries at Knossos . dYoung. was in fact afforded by the subject of certain animal reliefs found in theTemple Repository. Amongst all the faience relics that had formed part of the furnitureof the shrine, the highest artistic level was reached by a series of panelswith reliefs showing groups consisting of a goat and kids or of a cow andcalf The most beautiful of these, of which the remains of several panelsocurred, was that with the Cretan wild goat or Agrimi and tw
. The palace of Minos : a comparative account of the successive stages of the early Cretan civilization as illustrated by the discoveries at Knossos . dYoung. was in fact afforded by the subject of certain animal reliefs found in theTemple Repository. Amongst all the faience relics that had formed part of the furnitureof the shrine, the highest artistic level was reached by a series of panelswith reliefs showing groups consisting of a goat and kids or of a cow andcalf The most beautiful of these, of which the remains of several panelsocurred, was that with the Cretan wild goat or Agrimi and two kids repro-duced in Fig. 386. The goat is here seen in a rocky field suckling a kid,while another stands before her, bleating for her turn. Not only is the Ill: THE SNAKE GODDESS AND RELICS 511 modelling of the animal forms here most successfully achieved, but thegrouping is of a very skilful kind. The artist has seized the right momentof an idyllic scene, every detail of which he has thoroughly visualized. The Wild Goat and young naturally associate themselves with theCretan Goddess in her capacity of divine Huntress—a character which. 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
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