Cook, Arthur B.: Zeus: a study in ancient religion (Band 1): Zeus god of the bright sky (Cambridge, 1914)

494 The Minotaur

Douris, found at Vulci and now in the British Museum, sprinkles
him with eyes like those of Argos, another bovine personage (fig.
356)1. More to the point, perhaps, are the silver coins of Knossos

Fig. 356.

from c. 500 B.C. onwards: these represent him surrounded with
a row of dots, which may or may not be meant for stars2.
Clearer, though still not quite convincing, is a Corinthian ptnax of

strokes to indicate hair), Collignon—Couve Cat. Vases d'' Athenes p. 367 f. no. 1173 (red-
figured Minotaur ' tachete de points'), etc.

1 Brit. Mus. Cat. Vases iii. 73 f. no. E 48, Gerhard Auserl. Vasenb. iii. 153 pi. 234,
Baumeister Denkm. iii. 1789 fig. 1873, A. S. Murray Designs from Greek Vases in the
British Museum London 1894 p. 24 no. 29 pi. 8, E. Pottier Douris Paris 1905 p. 75 ff.
fig. 11, Reinach Re"p. Vases ii. 118, W. Klein Die griechischen Vasen mit Meistersignaturen2
Wien 1887 p. 158 no. 16, C. Robert in Pauly—Wissowa Real-Enc. v. 1859. Mr H. B.
Walters in the Brit. Mus. Cat. Vases iii. 73 notes: ' the mask of the Minotaur is edged
with a triple wavy black line at the neck, and shaded with light brown strokes—His body
and limbs are thickly overspread with dotted circles, like the eyes of Argus. The division
between this skin and the surface of the hands and feet is marked by fine brown lines.'

2 J. N. Svoronos Numismatique de la Crete ancienne Macon 1890 i. 65 f. pi. 4, 23 ff.,