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LIONESS'S HEAD ' RHYTON ', TREASURY CHAMBER S29
a metal original is indeed in this case so clo.se that it might almost have been
copied from the Shaft Grave specimen. The sealing—which also affords
such a good profile comparison with the latter object—is itself of M. M. Ill
elate, but there is every reason to suppose that the copy in stonework is
Late Minoan.
The 'rhyton' in the form of the lioness's head is shown in Fig. 542 as Marble'
slightly restored (see, too, Suppl. PI. XXXI, a1). This, though of harder in'fo'r°"0f
material, and more schematically moulded, is clearly a work of the same i>onfjSs's
v
DETAIL OF RIGHT EYE
Shewing jasper like fragments remaining
in hollow s line of pupil, indented.
FULL SIZE
N.B.
fragment of red jasper B
exists only in left eye. but
is shewn here to indicate
the total amount of inlay
remaining.
Circular
aperture.
Sketch
of nose■
Long Section thro' centre of nose
Shewing openings .
Fig. 543. Seciions of Lioness's Head ' Rhyton': by Theodore Fyfe.
Knossian school as the inlaid bull's head of steatite illustrated above.2 Like
the other it has a larger round opening (27 cm. in diameter) in the upper part
of the neck, and a smaller one (diam. 0-9 cm.) in the lower lip. Its back
plate is wanting, though holes for the rivets by which it was attached are
visible round the outer borders of the neck, with some traces of a band
in connexion with them so that it was probably of metal. There was here,
too, a similar system of inlays. A piece of the red jasper was found inlay
still attached to the nozzle, and this inlaying material had been secured work-
by a projecting cylinder that had run right through the wall of the vessel
(see section, Fig. 543). A rim of the same material had fringed the eye-
socket, as in the case of the bull's head, and an incised circle in the flat
1 From a drawing by Monsieur Gillie"ron, pere.
See above, pp. 528, 529.
a metal original is indeed in this case so clo.se that it might almost have been
copied from the Shaft Grave specimen. The sealing—which also affords
such a good profile comparison with the latter object—is itself of M. M. Ill
elate, but there is every reason to suppose that the copy in stonework is
Late Minoan.
The 'rhyton' in the form of the lioness's head is shown in Fig. 542 as Marble'
slightly restored (see, too, Suppl. PI. XXXI, a1). This, though of harder in'fo'r°"0f
material, and more schematically moulded, is clearly a work of the same i>onfjSs's
v
DETAIL OF RIGHT EYE
Shewing jasper like fragments remaining
in hollow s line of pupil, indented.
FULL SIZE
N.B.
fragment of red jasper B
exists only in left eye. but
is shewn here to indicate
the total amount of inlay
remaining.
Circular
aperture.
Sketch
of nose■
Long Section thro' centre of nose
Shewing openings .
Fig. 543. Seciions of Lioness's Head ' Rhyton': by Theodore Fyfe.
Knossian school as the inlaid bull's head of steatite illustrated above.2 Like
the other it has a larger round opening (27 cm. in diameter) in the upper part
of the neck, and a smaller one (diam. 0-9 cm.) in the lower lip. Its back
plate is wanting, though holes for the rivets by which it was attached are
visible round the outer borders of the neck, with some traces of a band
in connexion with them so that it was probably of metal. There was here,
too, a similar system of inlays. A piece of the red jasper was found inlay
still attached to the nozzle, and this inlaying material had been secured work-
by a projecting cylinder that had run right through the wall of the vessel
(see section, Fig. 543). A rim of the same material had fringed the eye-
socket, as in the case of the bull's head, and an incised circle in the flat
1 From a drawing by Monsieur Gillie"ron, pere.
See above, pp. 528, 529.