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Fig. 500. Lion endeavour-
ing to extract Arrow :
Sardonyx, Vapheio.

Fig. 501. Lion trying to with-
draw Arrow from Jaw. (I)

Fig. 502. Similar
Subject : Clay Seal
Impression, H. Triada.

Fig. 503 a. Similar Sub-
ject : Wounded Lioness :
Clay Seal Impression,
H. Triada.

Fig. 503 b. Wounded Lion
without Arrow, Mycenae.

tic 504. Dog scratching Fig. 505. Bitch scratching Fig. 506. Dog scratching

side. Seal Impression, Jaw: Jasper Lentoid, Jaw: Seal Impression,

H. Triada. Central Crete. H. Triada.

the lethal shaft from his jaw.1 On somesealings of the same series the subject
seems to be a lioness (Fig. 50:5 a).2 On the fine Mycenae lentoid, Fig. 503 /;,
the attitude of the wounded lion is preserved but the arrow is not shown.3

Other designs show similar attitudes taken over without rhyme or Similar
leason to a collared hound, no trace in these cases appearing of any dart asapplied

| Cabinet des M&lailles, Paris. anat (Aniiacologia, Ixxxii (19,52)), PI. XXVII, to hounds.

■ Levi, op cit., p. 32, Fig: 6S. 33, and p. 199.

'' A. J. B. Wace, Chamber Tombs at My-