. The palace of Minos : a comparative account of the successive stages of the early Cretan civilization as illustrated by the discoveries at Knossos . Fig. 361. Back View of Votary or Double ofSnake Goddess, {c. ^) Her Fashion-ableDress. S04 THE PALACE OF MINOS, ETC. of a headpiece had already been brofight into connexion with it, showinga series of raised medalHons, forming perhaps rendering ofan original crown of roses. A small circular rivet hole on the flat upper. Her Lioness Crest. Fig. 362, a, b, c, d. Upper Part of Faience Figure with Head restored (a, b);f, d SHOW Lower
. The palace of Minos : a comparative account of the successive stages of the early Cretan civilization as illustrated by the discoveries at Knossos . Fig. 361. Back View of Votary or Double ofSnake Goddess, {c. ^) Her Fashion-ableDress. S04 THE PALACE OF MINOS, ETC. of a headpiece had already been brofight into connexion with it, showinga series of raised medalHons, forming perhaps rendering ofan original crown of roses. A small circular rivet hole on the flat upper. Her Lioness Crest. Fig. 362, a, b, c, d. Upper Part of Faience Figure with Head restored (a, b);f, d SHOW Lower Part of Seated Animal and Tiara with Rivet Holes, (f) surface of this (see Fig. 362, a?) was further found to answer to a similarfeature on the base of a miniature lioness or spotted pard from the sameRepository ^ (<;), suggesting the almost certain restoration seen in Fig. 362,a and b. The spots taken over, perhaps through analogy with the snakes, This observation was first made by the artist, Mr. Halvor Bagge, to whom the restoreddrawing in Fig. 362 is due. Ill: THE SNAKE GODDESS AND RELICS 505 need hardly stand in the way of the identification of the animal with thelioness, sacred, as we know from other pieces of evidence, to the GreatMinoan Goddess, later identified with Rhea.^ This connexion is further borne out by two seal impressions belonging Lionsto the large hoard from the Western Repository. On one of these (Fig. tantsof363 a) a female figure, presumably t
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