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world and of the starry vault of Night. Associated with the cresent the cross
on the mould might be taken specifically to represent the Evening Star.

Cruciform symbols of more than one kind appear on several relics from Cruci-
the Temple Repositories. The 'Swastika', or Crux Gammata, is seen on symbols
a clay seal impression of which eighteen examples occurred (Figf. 372). It is on s^al"
there placed over a horned sheep exactly resembling the animal seen on a seal- N. Re-
type found in the Pictographic deposit of the Palace, in that case performing P0Slt0iy-

Fig. 372. Clay Seal Impression from
Temple Repository. Swastika and
Horned Sheep (^).

Fig. 373. Clay Seal Impression with
Infant and Horned Sheep. (Hieroglyphic
Deposit.) (f)

Fig. 374. Clay Seal Impression Fig. 375. Faience Inlay. Knossos.

with Cruciform Type.

the functions of the goat Amaltheia to an infant beneath it (see Fig. 373).
If this latter design covers, as may well be inferred, an allusion to an alter-
native form of the legend of the nurture of the infant Zeus,1 the appearance
of this religious symbol above the same animal on the seal impressions
from this Temple Treasury has a high significance. The animal in any
case may be naturally taken to stand in a close relation to the primitive
Mother Goddess, whose cult is otherwise so well illustrated by this deposit.

Another type, of repeated occurrence in the hoard of sealings found
in the Western Repository, presents a Cross as its sole type (Fig. 374). It

See my remarks, Knossos, Report, 1903, pp. 88, 89.

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