586 DOUBLE-BODIED ANIMAL TYPES

Here we seem to see a deliberate attempt to deceive the eve a
to such schemes, in fact an artist's trick of an extremely modern kin 1 ,' "^^
implied inquiry ' Where is the lion ?' e

Fig. 575. Horned Sheep
attacked by llon: resembling
Double-bodied Schemes : Sard.

Fig. 576. Kriosphinxwith Ram's

FIead, Double Body (Winged

Lion). Jasper : Mycenae.

Fig. 577. T\yo-bodiedLion
(Lions' Gate Scheme), Sard:
Mycenae.

Lions
fighting

for prey.

Many of the later animal schemes such as the crossing" animals, some-
times at grips with one another, also stand in direct relation to the
traditional schemes of bulls and lions on
Babylonian cylinders. The crossing figures
of leaping bulls in Fig. 578 (Suppl. PL LV,^') ,
supply a fine illustration of this. They even
recall motives of a much more primitive
Minoan class, such as the crossed hounds on
an E. M. Ill three-sided bead-seal figured
above,1 which also suggest exotic influences.

A striking version of such more or less
counter-balanced animal forms is that sup-
plied by a lentoid of translucent sard, said to
come from Mycenae,2 on which two anti-
thetically opposed lions fasten on a stag's
PI. LV, d). The complement to this scene is shown in rig
PI. LV, It) where the lions quarrel over their prey. They
symmetrically crossed, gripping each others backs while ti

death throes falls headlong between them.

,-toft1"5

F,c, 578. Sard Lento..).

throat (Fio-. 579 and Suppj-
580 (Sp-

here

seen

1 See above, p. 521, Fig. 464, 3.

2 J. D. Beazley, Lewes House Collection of
Ancient Gems, VI. I, 1, and p. 1, No. 1. I am

indebted to Professor

and of Fig. 57