. The palace of Minos : a comparative account of the successive stages of the early Cretan civilization as illustrated by the discoveries at Knossos . umns and, beside them, the familiarhorns of consecration (Fig. 319).^ These columns, moreover, present aninteresting feature, supplying a further connexion with the prevaiHng cult. Nos. 2, 3, and 4 from the West End of Temple Fresco. See Vol. II. the Magazine. Below this architectural design is a rosette ^ The rosettes, however, were not of the border. For a coloured illustration see purely architectonic type seen in the miniature jB. S. A., x,
. The palace of Minos : a comparative account of the successive stages of the early Cretan civilization as illustrated by the discoveries at Knossos . umns and, beside them, the familiarhorns of consecration (Fig. 319).^ These columns, moreover, present aninteresting feature, supplying a further connexion with the prevaiHng cult. Nos. 2, 3, and 4 from the West End of Temple Fresco. See Vol. II. the Magazine. Below this architectural design is a rosette ^ The rosettes, however, were not of the border. For a coloured illustration see purely architectonic type seen in the miniature jB. S. A., x, PL ii. 444 THE PALACE OF MINOS, ETC, Axes in-serted inColumns. On each side of the capital appear pairs of white objects with curved ends,which, though sketchily indicated, in the fluid style of this fresco technique,unquestionably represent the double axes of Minoan worship, stuck intothe of the sacred columns. This recalls a curious cult practicenoted in the Dictaean Cave. In the inmost cavern shrine explored byDr. Hogarth, votive bronze axes and other implements had been insertedin the crevices of the natural pillars of Fig. Window Openings of Sanctuary Building with Double Axes insertedIN Posts on a Fragment of Painted Stucco found at Mycenae. Compari-son fromMycenae. What, however, is of special interest in connexion with the double axesembedded in the wooden columns of the Palace Sanctuary is the recurrenceof this ritual arrangement on a painted plaster fragment belonging to theearliest painted decoration of the Palace at Mycenae and clearly the work ofa more or less contemporary Cretan artist. Fat female figures are seenlooking out. from what appear to be the openings of a double window, onboth sides of the upright middle bar of which, and on the inner side of theleft post are visible, just under the cross-beam, double axes stuck in the M. M. Ill: WEST PALACE REGION; DOUBLE AXE CULT 445 same way into the woodwork (Fig. 320.) ^ The festoons, o
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