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Addenda 122 i
1896 ii. 505 figs. 450—455. Seven little hatchets of bronze were found, inscribed IOVI,
MII/1ERVAE, etc'
ii. 625 n. 3. Mr A. J. B. Wace, lecturing to the Classical Society at Cambridge on
Nov. 27, 1922, described how in the last season's
' dig' at Mykenai the British School had ex-
cavated various tombs outside the town. In the
entrance to tomb no. 515 were found two seal-
stones, dating from s. xv B.C., with an almost
identical device. Above a stepped base stands a
' Minoan' goddess, flanked by a pair of lions erect
upon their hind legs. On her head she supports a
double axe, which rises from the centre of a
couple of two-headed snakes connected by cross-
bars—apparently a serpentine substitute for the
more usual 'horns of consecration' (cp. Brit. Mus.
Cjat. Jewellery p. 54 f. no. 762 pis. 6 and 7).
Fig. 1014 is enlarged f from a cast supplied to me
by the British Museum. The main difference
between the two stones is that on this one the
lions' tails curl upwards, on the other down-
wards. Mr Wace aptly drew attention to Hesych.
s. vv. Kvftrfki'i' fi&xatpa. &/neii/ov Se weXeKvv, u rets p-
/3ovs KaTafBaWovai, /ci>,37?Atcrcu " irekt tela ai■ jctf/fyAts
yap 6 weXeKvs, and accordingly proposed to call the goddess Kybele (id. in the Journ.
Hell. Stud. 1921 xli. 264 'Kybele or Rhea').
ii. 632 n. 6. Add an axe of dark brown schist, decorated with zigzags and spirals and
ending in the forepart of a lioness, found in a ' Middle Minoan iii' vase at Mallia (Coinptes
rendus de P Acad, des inscr. et belles-lettres 1925 p. 23 f. fig.).
ii. 633 ff. The axes borne by Roman lictors may be illustrated from a fragmentary
marble relief now affixed to a wall of the
Cryptoporticus on the Palatine. Fig. 1015
is from a photograph taken by my friend
and colleague Mr A. Munro, Fellow of
Queens' College, Cambridge. It will be
observed that the haft of every axe is sur-
mounted by a head (lion, man, ram).
The ' Tomb of the Lictor ' at Vetulonia
takes its name from an iron double axe
(0.27™ long) hafted on to an iron rod sur-
rounded by eight hollow rods of iron (last
published by D. Randall-Maclver Villano-
vans and Early Etruscans Oxford 1924
p. 145 fig. 56 after O. Montelius La
civilisation primitive en Italie depuis
Fintroduction des metaux Stockholm 1904
Serie B pi. 194, 5). Cp. Sil. It. 8. 483 ff.
ii. 637. Four fine examples of carving in
amber (Eros v. Anteros, Bacchant, female
bust, ' Tiergruppe') are figured by H. Maio-
nica in the Fiihrer durch das K. K. Staats-
miLseum in Aquileia Wien 1910 p. 7iff.
Finer still (^.0*40™ high) is the archaickoiiros
of Fiumicino (S. Reinach in the Rev. Arch.
1924 ii. 237).
ii. 645 n. 4. See now Sir A. J. Evans
in the Journ. Hell. Stud. 1925 xlv. 53 ff.
ii. 660. A small double axe of ivory
(fig. 1016: scale -}-), now in my possession, yig. 1016.
is said to have come from Pharsalos, but
was more probably found at Pherai. With it
were an ivory fibula of ' spectacle'-type and two bronze pendants of the Hallstatt period.
ii. 667. Cp. Furtwangler Geschnitt. Steine Berlin p. 312 no. 8514 pi. 71 a red jasper
of imperial date showing a crab with a comic mask as its carapace.
1896 ii. 505 figs. 450—455. Seven little hatchets of bronze were found, inscribed IOVI,
MII/1ERVAE, etc'
ii. 625 n. 3. Mr A. J. B. Wace, lecturing to the Classical Society at Cambridge on
Nov. 27, 1922, described how in the last season's
' dig' at Mykenai the British School had ex-
cavated various tombs outside the town. In the
entrance to tomb no. 515 were found two seal-
stones, dating from s. xv B.C., with an almost
identical device. Above a stepped base stands a
' Minoan' goddess, flanked by a pair of lions erect
upon their hind legs. On her head she supports a
double axe, which rises from the centre of a
couple of two-headed snakes connected by cross-
bars—apparently a serpentine substitute for the
more usual 'horns of consecration' (cp. Brit. Mus.
Cjat. Jewellery p. 54 f. no. 762 pis. 6 and 7).
Fig. 1014 is enlarged f from a cast supplied to me
by the British Museum. The main difference
between the two stones is that on this one the
lions' tails curl upwards, on the other down-
wards. Mr Wace aptly drew attention to Hesych.
s. vv. Kvftrfki'i' fi&xatpa. &/neii/ov Se weXeKvv, u rets p-
/3ovs KaTafBaWovai, /ci>,37?Atcrcu " irekt tela ai■ jctf/fyAts
yap 6 weXeKvs, and accordingly proposed to call the goddess Kybele (id. in the Journ.
Hell. Stud. 1921 xli. 264 'Kybele or Rhea').
ii. 632 n. 6. Add an axe of dark brown schist, decorated with zigzags and spirals and
ending in the forepart of a lioness, found in a ' Middle Minoan iii' vase at Mallia (Coinptes
rendus de P Acad, des inscr. et belles-lettres 1925 p. 23 f. fig.).
ii. 633 ff. The axes borne by Roman lictors may be illustrated from a fragmentary
marble relief now affixed to a wall of the
Cryptoporticus on the Palatine. Fig. 1015
is from a photograph taken by my friend
and colleague Mr A. Munro, Fellow of
Queens' College, Cambridge. It will be
observed that the haft of every axe is sur-
mounted by a head (lion, man, ram).
The ' Tomb of the Lictor ' at Vetulonia
takes its name from an iron double axe
(0.27™ long) hafted on to an iron rod sur-
rounded by eight hollow rods of iron (last
published by D. Randall-Maclver Villano-
vans and Early Etruscans Oxford 1924
p. 145 fig. 56 after O. Montelius La
civilisation primitive en Italie depuis
Fintroduction des metaux Stockholm 1904
Serie B pi. 194, 5). Cp. Sil. It. 8. 483 ff.
ii. 637. Four fine examples of carving in
amber (Eros v. Anteros, Bacchant, female
bust, ' Tiergruppe') are figured by H. Maio-
nica in the Fiihrer durch das K. K. Staats-
miLseum in Aquileia Wien 1910 p. 7iff.
Finer still (^.0*40™ high) is the archaickoiiros
of Fiumicino (S. Reinach in the Rev. Arch.
1924 ii. 237).
ii. 645 n. 4. See now Sir A. J. Evans
in the Journ. Hell. Stud. 1925 xlv. 53 ff.
ii. 660. A small double axe of ivory
(fig. 1016: scale -}-), now in my possession, yig. 1016.
is said to have come from Pharsalos, but
was more probably found at Pherai. With it
were an ivory fibula of ' spectacle'-type and two bronze pendants of the Hallstatt period.
ii. 667. Cp. Furtwangler Geschnitt. Steine Berlin p. 312 no. 8514 pi. 71 a red jasper
of imperial date showing a crab with a comic mask as its carapace.