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MALE ADORANTS ON SIGNET-RINGS

Tylissos,1 though incomplete, suggests that, like so many Greek anathemata,
some of the Minoan, too, bore the names of their dedicators. So too on the
bronze Votive Tablet of Psychro there appears what seems to be the name
of its offerer.2

Fig. 322. Votive Bronze Figure of Youth from near Phaestos wearing Broad-
krimmed Hat and with both Forearms raised : Leiden Museum, (c. f)

The counterpart to these, which has a special value, since here we see
both the adorant and the divinity worshipped, is to be found on a series of gold
signet-rings or their clay impressions, of the religious class already described,
one feature of which, already detected in the case of reliefs and inlays, is the
running together into a single group of what are really separate episodes.

PI. XVII; Perrot and Chipiez, vi, pp. 733, 759,
Fig. 355, &c.) Like the female figure found
with it, this may yet very well have been of the
votive class, since the Minoan chamber tomb
could be also a shrine of the Goddess.

1 P. of M., i, p. 634, Fig. 472.

2 Ibid., p. 632, Fig. 470.

proficient in the ' noble art of self defence'.
This figure, for no sufficient reason, has been
recently described as a flute-player: it rather
suggests comparisons with contemporary pugi-
listic scenes on steatite vases and miniature
paintings. (For the figure see £0. 'Ap^-, i8pi,
p. 162; Tsountas, Miwdjrai, p. 182, PI. XI;
Tsountas and Manatt, Myc. Age, pp. 229, 230,