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been a most convenient staple of traffic with the mouths of the Nile, and
s o m e k ind of customs station may have been established here in Minoan
times.

The diagrammatic sketches in Fig. 528 will give some insight into
the manner in which the ivaz symbol, or conventionalized papyrus
spray, as seen on Twelfth Dynasty scarabs coupled with a double scroll,
became the starting-point for an elaborate series of types of the ZakrO Waz
series in which eyed butterflies' wings play a part. In c, the suggestion of T>'Pes-

Zakro N?7a

XIIth Dyn. Egyptian Zat<reNc&9 Suggestion of Butterff;'.

a b c

Fig. 528. The Egyptian ' Waz ' Symbol between Scrolls and Minoan Derivatives.

c

d

Fig. 529. Bats' and Eyed Butterflies' Wings on Seal Types (a-c. Zakro, d. Knossos) (f).

butterflies' wings is already clear, though the scrolls themselves depict
stellate flowers on curving stalks. In other frequent cases terminal circles
formed by these twin scrolls are converted into women's breasts. Often,
too, lotus or papyrus tufts turned upside down call up the idea of birds'
tails, or are impressed into the design as wings.

That some of the wings represented are those of bats is made probable Bats' and
by the curious design of the hindquarters of an animal seen in Fig. 529, a. flies'
More frequent are those of a butterfly with eyed and strongly cusped wings, Wm&s-
which plays a prominent part in the Minoan repertory of this and the
succeeding Periods, and may well have had a religious significance. It
takes a conventional and generalized form, but seems to be for the most
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