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WOUNDED LION TYPES

or arrow. The scheme of the wounded animal is here simply m.l
a suggestion for a study of a dog scratching himself (Fig. 504). On
jasper lentoid from Central Crete (Fig. 505),1 a bitch's leg is raised to tl
lower part of her jaw, while on another clay sealing from Hao-ia Triada' '
shown an almost exactly similar attitude in the case of a dog (Fio-. 506V
The strained action of these poses had an obvious attraction for th
Minoan artist. The Minoan public loved sensational scenes.

Wounded
lion on
Shaft
Grave
bead-
seal.

Wounded Lion on Shaft Grave Bead-seal.

In the above cases, illustrated by Figs. 500-503 b, the wounded animal
endeavours to extract the shaft
with his hind-leg. Another ver-
sion, compatible with a less con-
torted scheme, is that in which a
lion, stricken with an arrow in the
shoulder, strains his neck round
to seize the end of the shaft in his
teeth. A noble representation of
this occurs on the gold flat cylinder
bead-seal from the Third Shaft
Grave at Mycenae. He is de-
scending a rocky steep, and his
knees giving under the paralysing
influence of the wound (Fig. 507).*

On the signet (Fig. 507 bis)5
two arrows wing their way towards
the neck and shoulders of a lioness
galloping in full flight through a
rocky glen, with her cub beside
her. On a lentoid bead-seal the
arrow sticks in the back of a
coursing bull, but his head is
simply turned round towards the
spectator.

Fig. 507. Wounded Lion endeavouring
to extract arrow from shoulder: gold
Bead-seal (flat Cylinder), Mycenae, (f)

Levi, Op. tit., p. 97, Fig. 176.

A. E. Coll.

Op. tit., p. 44, Fig. 100.

From a drawing by E. Gillie'ron, fils.

Fig. 507 iis. Lioness with Cub
full flight, shot at by Arrows.

Cf. Schliemann, Mycenae, p. 174
wangler,^.G,Pl. HI. 49; Kara'***

van Mycelial PI. XXIV, 34; Test>
5 From a cast in my possession.

,5. Furt-
:u,rii"
p. 49-