Evans, Arthur J.: The Palace of Minos: a comparative account of the successive stages of the early Cretan civilization as illustred by the discoveries at Knossos (Band 2,2): Town houses in Knossos of the new era and restored West Palace Section (London, 1928)

§ 6y. Lion's Head 'Rhytons' of Minoan Rhea—Duplicate from
under Delphic Shrine; The Mlnoan Cithara and Knossian Element
in Cult of Apollo Delpiiinios.

Lion's head ' rltyton' of alabaster from Treasury of Sanctuary ; Proto-
types in metal-work ; Marble specimen inform of lioness's head; Evidence of
inlays ; Such vessels appropriate to Minoan Rhea ; Lion-guarded Goddess on
seals and male Consort; Fart of Lioness's head ' rhytou' of Knossian fabric
and material found beneath Apollo temple at Delphi; Minoan affinities of
Delphic cult—votive Double Axes ; The cithara in Crete and Delphi ; Early
types of lyre on hieroglyphic seals; Fresco designs showing kitharoedos at
H. Triada ; Egyptian features in the instruments; Prototypes, Asiatic;
Kinyras and the kinnor/ His association with Aphrodite at Paphos—baetylic
images of both, also regarded as tomb-stones; ' Tomb of Zeus ' at Knossos
compared—mourning scene on ring ; omphalos form compared with sialag-
mitic bosses—that in Eilcithyids Cave near Knossos; omphalos-///^ object
wound round with bands on Knossian fresco—Delphic omphalos compared ;
Cretan religious foundation at Delphi described by Homeric Hymn ; Youthful
archer as Consort of Minoan Goddess—Artemis Diktyuna or Britomartis—
Apollo Delphinios associated with her in Crete; The temple of Apollo
Delpiiinios at Knossos—central sanctuary of the Island.

Among all the objects found in this deposit the greatest religious Lion's
interest attaches to the remains of two 'rhytons'in the form of lion's and 'rhytons'
lioness's heads. The former was executed in native alabaster, the latter from

treasury

in the marble-like limestone already referred to, and fragments of others of sane-
occurred in the same material. The head of the lioness is already known ; ™^
that of a lion, clearly showing the pointed barbiche beneath the chin, restored
from fragments presented to the Ashmolean Museum, is illustrated for the
first time in Figs. 544, 545, p. 830, below, in connexion with the profile of
a similar head on a Knossian clay sealing. It is closely compared with the
lion's head 'rhyton' of gold found in the Fourth Shaft Grave at Mycenae (see
Fig. 541, bis) which itself is clearly of M. M. Ill fabric,1 and the dependence on

1 See also above, p. 420, Fig. 243, and cf. Arch. Inst., xxvi (1911), pp. 253, 254, and
Prof. G. Karo, Minoische Rhyla (Jahrb. d. d. PI. 19).