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CONNECTED WITH CULT OF MINOAN RHEA
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of the inner corners of the eyes at the opening of the lachrymal gland, the
rendering of the hairs along the jaws, the sharp outline of their edge, and the
ridge above the eyes. As in the case of the alabaster and gold examples,
the two-cupped prominences above the nose are well developed.1 On the
other hand, the little peaked beard or barbiche beneath the chin seen in the
other examples is here absent.2
Notwithstanding, however, these signs of schematic treatment, the
execution of this marble head shows a combined firmness of modelling and
delicacy of touch that must place it in the first rank among the examples
known to us of Minoan stone carving. It conveys, indeed, an underlying
sense of beauty, recalling that of certain archaic Greek works.
Fig. 546. Goddess wear-
ing Peaked Tiara and hold-
ing Spear, beside Lion
Guardian, (f)
Fig. 547. Armed
God with Tiara and
Lioness or Pard. (f)
Fig. 548. Youthful
God with Tiara hold-
ing Bow; Lion behind
(!)
The discovery of these lion's head ' rhytons' in the Treasury Chamber Lion's
of the central sanctuary of the Palace has a marked appropriateness. The ■ rn"ytons'
type of the lion-guarded Goddess, the Minoan Rhea, that appears on a series aP.P™-
J r & ... pnate to
of clay sealings on the borders of the later Shrine, finds its analogy in the im- Minoan
pression of an earlier signet from the Temple Repositories here reproduced.
On this the Goddess, marked by her tiara, holding a spear, as in the other
case, is seen advancing beside a lion guardian, upon whose hind-quarters she
1 These conventionalized prominences here
derived from Minoan goldsmith's art were
taken over into the earliest Greek Art, and
are very conspicuous in lion's masks, as seen,
for instance, on the fifth-century coin-types of
Rhegion.
2 The absence of this has in some quarters
started the quite unfounded idea that the
object represented a dog's head. The corre-
spondences in other details with the lion's
head ' rhyton' sufficiently show that this was
intended for that of a lioness.
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of the inner corners of the eyes at the opening of the lachrymal gland, the
rendering of the hairs along the jaws, the sharp outline of their edge, and the
ridge above the eyes. As in the case of the alabaster and gold examples,
the two-cupped prominences above the nose are well developed.1 On the
other hand, the little peaked beard or barbiche beneath the chin seen in the
other examples is here absent.2
Notwithstanding, however, these signs of schematic treatment, the
execution of this marble head shows a combined firmness of modelling and
delicacy of touch that must place it in the first rank among the examples
known to us of Minoan stone carving. It conveys, indeed, an underlying
sense of beauty, recalling that of certain archaic Greek works.
Fig. 546. Goddess wear-
ing Peaked Tiara and hold-
ing Spear, beside Lion
Guardian, (f)
Fig. 547. Armed
God with Tiara and
Lioness or Pard. (f)
Fig. 548. Youthful
God with Tiara hold-
ing Bow; Lion behind
(!)
The discovery of these lion's head ' rhytons' in the Treasury Chamber Lion's
of the central sanctuary of the Palace has a marked appropriateness. The ■ rn"ytons'
type of the lion-guarded Goddess, the Minoan Rhea, that appears on a series aP.P™-
J r & ... pnate to
of clay sealings on the borders of the later Shrine, finds its analogy in the im- Minoan
pression of an earlier signet from the Temple Repositories here reproduced.
On this the Goddess, marked by her tiara, holding a spear, as in the other
case, is seen advancing beside a lion guardian, upon whose hind-quarters she
1 These conventionalized prominences here
derived from Minoan goldsmith's art were
taken over into the earliest Greek Art, and
are very conspicuous in lion's masks, as seen,
for instance, on the fifth-century coin-types of
Rhegion.
2 The absence of this has in some quarters
started the quite unfounded idea that the
object represented a dog's head. The corre-
spondences in other details with the lion's
head ' rhyton' sufficiently show that this was
intended for that of a lioness.