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YOUTHFUL PERSONAGE HOLDING DOVE
405
Intaglio showing Long-robed Youthful Personage holding Dove.
The intaglio is cut on a green jasper bead-seal representing a thick
elongated development of the ' amygdaloid ' class,
and represents a long-robed youth holding a dove.
The fringed appendage of the robe seen in
Fig. 336, which falls down the back and connects
itself with a short sleeve, presents a distinct parallel
to the dress of the boy referred to belonging to the
' Camp-Stool' series above reproduced in Fig. 335,
though in that case two fringed ends hang down
presenting a wing-like appearance. The oblique
position of the waist-band with a band below sloping
in the opposite direction is also a recurring feature
of conformity.
The youth or boy seen in Fig. 336 has abundant
locks of hair falling about his shoulders. The bird
that he carries may naturally be regarded as an
offering to a divinity, and there can be little doubt
that it is intended to represent a dove. Though
the neck is somewhat elongated, the bill, so far from
being slightly upturned, as in the case of a duck,
is definitely hooked at the point, like that of a
Fig. 336. Large In- . ,,_, . , . . , . . . .
taglio showing Youth- pigeon. What is decisive, however, is the careful
ful Personage holding insertion of the swelling at the upper extremity of
Dove: Knossos. (#) , , .,, , -,--. 00_ * ,, , r , . ^ ■ t ,.
the bill (see rig. 337, a) well denned 111 the intaglio.
This is a well-known characteristic of doves' beaks, as is shown in the sketch
of a rock-dove's head placed here for comparison in Fig. 337, b.
Youthful
per-
sonage
holding
dove.
Charac-
teristic
beak.
Fundamental Affinity of Minoan Dove Cult with Syro-Anatolian.
The association of the Minoan Goddess on her celestial side with the Early
dove corroborates the conclusion that this offertory design represents that \mns '0(
bird and no other. Already by the mature staoe of M. M. I the ' dove-vase' Minoan
; J ^ , Goddess
from the Palace site1 and the bowl with a flying dove moulded in it from with dove,
the Bone Enclosure at Palaikastro - suggest a ritual connexion. In the case
1 P. of M:, i, p. 1.16, Fig. 107.
2 Ibid., p. 1S1, Fig. 130«. Cf. R. C. Bosanquet, B.S.A., viii, p. 294.
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405
Intaglio showing Long-robed Youthful Personage holding Dove.
The intaglio is cut on a green jasper bead-seal representing a thick
elongated development of the ' amygdaloid ' class,
and represents a long-robed youth holding a dove.
The fringed appendage of the robe seen in
Fig. 336, which falls down the back and connects
itself with a short sleeve, presents a distinct parallel
to the dress of the boy referred to belonging to the
' Camp-Stool' series above reproduced in Fig. 335,
though in that case two fringed ends hang down
presenting a wing-like appearance. The oblique
position of the waist-band with a band below sloping
in the opposite direction is also a recurring feature
of conformity.
The youth or boy seen in Fig. 336 has abundant
locks of hair falling about his shoulders. The bird
that he carries may naturally be regarded as an
offering to a divinity, and there can be little doubt
that it is intended to represent a dove. Though
the neck is somewhat elongated, the bill, so far from
being slightly upturned, as in the case of a duck,
is definitely hooked at the point, like that of a
Fig. 336. Large In- . ,,_, . , . . , . . . .
taglio showing Youth- pigeon. What is decisive, however, is the careful
ful Personage holding insertion of the swelling at the upper extremity of
Dove: Knossos. (#) , , .,, , -,--. 00_ * ,, , r , . ^ ■ t ,.
the bill (see rig. 337, a) well denned 111 the intaglio.
This is a well-known characteristic of doves' beaks, as is shown in the sketch
of a rock-dove's head placed here for comparison in Fig. 337, b.
Youthful
per-
sonage
holding
dove.
Charac-
teristic
beak.
Fundamental Affinity of Minoan Dove Cult with Syro-Anatolian.
The association of the Minoan Goddess on her celestial side with the Early
dove corroborates the conclusion that this offertory design represents that \mns '0(
bird and no other. Already by the mature staoe of M. M. I the ' dove-vase' Minoan
; J ^ , Goddess
from the Palace site1 and the bowl with a flying dove moulded in it from with dove,
the Bone Enclosure at Palaikastro - suggest a ritual connexion. In the case
1 P. of M:, i, p. 1.16, Fig. 107.
2 Ibid., p. 1S1, Fig. 130«. Cf. R. C. Bosanquet, B.S.A., viii, p. 294.
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