LIONS AND SLAUGHTERED STAG 587

On another lentoid gem two lions are seen, one seated left, the other
springing to the right, while in that reproduced in Suppl. PL LV, A, two
bulls appear in reversed positions.1

Fig. 679. Two Lions seizing Stag by
Neck. Cornelian lentoid. (f)

Fig. 580. Two Lions fighting for the
Slaughtered Stag. Cornelian Lentoid. (J)

Designs adapted to Circular Field: the Lentoid Class.

The crossing or opposed animals and other antithetic figures, and the
' Lions' Gate' class of designs were themselves
specially adapted for the lentoid form which from the
closing phase of L.M. 11 onwards became practically
the sole type of bead-seal. Equally so were such
more or less parallel motives as a daemon com-
bined with the foreparts of collared hounds or the
linked foreparts of bulls, where the interspaces are
filled with a horned sheep's head below and the
shield and impaled triangle symbols above.

In Fig. 581 we see an ingenious example on
a haematite lentoid from Central Crete where a
facing ram's head and two goats' heads in profile
are packed into the circular field.

As in the most primitive forms, the engraver was generally filled with

In the Cabinet des Medailles, from a cast kindly supplied by Monsieur David.
■ A. E. Coll.

Adapta-
tion of
designs to
circular
field of
lentoids.

Fig. 581. Ram's and
Goat's Heads on Haema-
tite Lentoid from Cen-
tral Crete.