402 GABERD1NED ATTIRE SIGN OF SYRIAN INFLUENCE

chryselephantine figure described above, in which she takes the charier
of ' Lady of the Sports', she combines the male loin attire of the o-l l
taur.eadors who were her protegees with the
corset of contemporary female fashion.

Well into the opening phase of the
Lafe Minoan Age—if we except perhaps
the tiara with its distinct Oriental associa-
tions—the costume of both the Minoan
Goddess and the Youthful God was of
home growth, and the same rule, as we
have seen, applies to the Priest-kings
who were their terrestrial representa-
tives.

Later
versions
of God-
dess in
gaber-
dined
garb.

Fig. :

Seated Goddess between
Lions : Mycenae.

' Gaberdined' Attire—Sign of New Syrian
Influences. Goddess on Tiryns Signet
and Mycenae Gems.

But' coming events cast their shadows
before them'. The evidence already sup-
plied by the great Tiryns signet-ring1'
shows that an orientalizing" influence had
already supplied the Minoan Goddess with
a novel type of close-fitting gown (see
above, p. 393, Fig. 329 a).

From the line style of engraving-
exhibited by this design, which is fully
described and illustrated below, it seems
probable that its execution must be placed
at least within the lower limits of the First
Late Minoan Period. Two intaglios, both
presumably of somewhat later date, said
to have been found at Mycenae, afford
further examples of the Goddess in similar

attire. Fig. 333 illustrates a lentoid ring-stone2 with the divinity seatec °
a lion's head and with two lions heraldically posed. That given in rig- _
and hitherto unpublished, is, like the other, a yellow cornelian,'1 presea 0

1 See above, p. 392 seqq., and p. 460, p. 67 [165]. Fig. 45 (Franks Coll., • -^ ^
Fie. 385. ' Acquired by me in Athens in I93r :

Fig. 334. Goddess standing between
Mycenae: Sacral Knoi

ABOVE R-

Lions :

2 From A. E., Myc. Tree and Pillar Cull,

Acquired by
to have been found at Mycenae.