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The double axe in mid air
(a) The double axe in mid air.
In the cult-scenes of 'Minoan' art the double axe sometimes
appears as an isolated object suspended in the air. The famous gold
Fig. 392.
ring found by Drosinos and P. Stamatakes in a complex of buildings
on the lower terrace of the Akropolis at Mykenai and now preserved
in the Central Museum at Athens1 affords a case in point (supra
p. 47, fig. 18)2. It shows a female figure seated on stony ground
1 Stai's Coll. Mycdnienne: Athenes p. 66 f. no. 992.
2 Fig. 18 is after Sir A. J. Evans in the fourn. Hell. Stud. 1901 xxi. 108 fig. 4
(scale f). O. Rossbach in the Arch. Zeit. 1883 xli. 169—1 73 fig. has a careful line-drawing
(scale y) made from two impressions of the ring in different materials. Furtwangler Ant.
(a) The double axe in mid air.
In the cult-scenes of 'Minoan' art the double axe sometimes
appears as an isolated object suspended in the air. The famous gold
Fig. 392.
ring found by Drosinos and P. Stamatakes in a complex of buildings
on the lower terrace of the Akropolis at Mykenai and now preserved
in the Central Museum at Athens1 affords a case in point (supra
p. 47, fig. 18)2. It shows a female figure seated on stony ground
1 Stai's Coll. Mycdnienne: Athenes p. 66 f. no. 992.
2 Fig. 18 is after Sir A. J. Evans in the fourn. Hell. Stud. 1901 xxi. 108 fig. 4
(scale f). O. Rossbach in the Arch. Zeit. 1883 xli. 169—1 73 fig. has a careful line-drawing
(scale y) made from two impressions of the ring in different materials. Furtwangler Ant.