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644 The Significance of the Bull

of the Hittite breed. Finally, H. Prinz holds that the myth of
Zeus and Europe is to be explained from Hittite sources1. The
Hittite goddess Chipa standing on the bull held by Tesub, while
she supports in either hand a flowery kirtle (fig. 503)2, certainly

Fig- 5°3-

suggests that the art-type of Europe on the bull owed some-
thing to Hittite influence. And Chipa beneath her winged arch
(fig. 504)3 may be compared with Hellotis in her big wreath4.

Fig. 504.

(8) The Cretan Zeus and Zagreus.

Our third example of a transmitted religious motif is at once
more certain and more interesting. The art of Mesopotamia
carried westward by the Phoenicians has left its impress upon

1 Supra p. 526 n. 2.

- W. H. Ward in M. Jastrow Bildermappe zur Religion Babyloniens und Assyriens
Giessen 1912 p. 103 pi. 51, no. 186.

3 W. H. Ward in the Am.Journ. Arch. 1899 hi. 26 fig. 33 and in M. Jastrow op. cit.
p. 103 pi. 51, no. 187.

4 Supra p. 525.