6io SUBJECTS ILLUSTRATING CENTRAL PALACE CULT

sealing (D, 5) he holds out his hands above the lions' heads, as on a oem
from Kydonia given above. Elsewhere, as we have seen, he stands
between two Minoan Genii,1 in one case, between the Daemon and a winged
goat, with the sacral horns at his feet, and, on a seal already reproduced2 from
the Archives Deposit, his two supporters are collared hounds held by leashes.

Baetylic

Column
substi-
tuted for
divinity.

o9S. a, Gold Signet-ring ; b Agate Lentoid : both from Mycenae illustrating
Equivalence 01' Goddess and Baetylic Column.

In this and similar schemes the place of the divinity between the
animal guardians is taken by its baetylic form, such as a column or an
altar base, or of both combined as in the case of the tympanum relief.
A good example of the columnar version (showing ' sacral knots' attached
to the capital) on a gold signet-ring from Mycenae, together with an agate
lentoid from the same site, with the Goddess herself in place of her baetylic
column, here given for comparison in Fig. 598 b? In this case, in place of the
leashes of the collared hound, the guardian, regardant lions are attached
by short cords to the pillar that could be infused by due ritual with the
essence of the divinity.

Sculp-
tural re-
lief of
Lions'
Gate

Fragmentary Seal Impressions showing Sculptural Group of Lions' Gate
Type on Cornice of Portico.

Of singular interest is the fragmentary seal impression, Fig. 597 a, i, from
the Little Palace, found in association with that showing the adorant and
part of a pillar shrine (Fig. 597 a, J). The guardian lions in this recall those

1 P. 465, Fig 389. SeeMyc. Tree and Pillar Cnlt, pp. 61,62, and

: P. 467, Fig. 392. Fig. 39, and pp. 66, 67, Fig. 44.

3 Both intaglios are in my own Collection.