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THE PALACE OF MINOS, ETC.

we have before us an unquestionable example of an Egyptian influence on
Minoan religious imagery.
Cross and Two symbols that are clearly of a sacral nature are found on the

Swastika -o • i ■ t i • i i • i

symbols. Repository seahngs. In one case we see a plain cross used as the single
type of a series of impressions.1 In another case the Swastika appears above

Infant
God
suckled
by ewe.

c d
Fig. 503. Intaglios representing Horned Sheep (f).

a horned sheep and manger (Fig. 518, b)} As noted above, the same animal is
depicted on a fine seal-impression from the earlier, Hieroglyphic Deposit, with
an infant below. These conjunctions, indeed, point to the conclusion that
we have here early references to the infant God or hero suckled by an animal
so repeatedly illustrated by the later mythology of the island.3

1 See above, p. 515, Fig. 374. Num. Chron., 1896, PI. II, 10 (now A. E.

2 See also above, p. 515, Fig. 372. Coll.). Cf. too, A. B. Cook, Zeus, p. 660,

3 Coins of Praesos supply a variant of the Figs. 507, 508). On the coins of Kydonia we
Diktaean myth in which a cow is substituted see the eponymic hero in the form of a child
for the she-goat (see Svoronos, Numismatique suckled by a bitch.

de la Crete ancieune, PI. XXVII, 2 ; H. Weber,