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[312] PRIMITIVE PICTOGRAPHS AND SCRIPT 43
56 wT,^ Fig. 31c. Perhaps a lily. This form is more pictorial
^^F than the others. Compare the Hittite ^7 Hamath
-4^^ST (Wright, op. cit. Pi. IV. li. 2 and S). O^
57 V # V ^S- 32^- I have placed this symbol, as completed, amongst
floral forms from its apparent analogy to the Hittite
<\^ox? as seen on the monument at Ivriz (Ramsay and
>—-^ Hogarth, Prehellenic Monuments of Cappadocia, PL
III.). The dot which occurs above both symbols may
be reasonably interpreted as representing the head of a stamen or pistil, as
those of the lily, No. 56.
Figs. 375, 40. Tree symbol. On a Mycenaean lentoid
gem, now in the Museum of the Syllogos at Candia, a
votary is seen blowing a conch-shell before an altar,
behind which is a sacred grove with trees in the
same conventional style. M A similar degeneration
of the sacred tree occurs «s on Cypriote cylinders.
59 J Fig. 28b, repeated. Spray or branch, and the same is seen
duplicated on Fig. 29c.
Heavenly Bodies and Derivatives.
Fig. 33c. Day-star, or sun, with eight revolving rays.
61 y I j Fig. 27a (the rays more revolving). Day-star, or sun,
with twelve rays. Star-like symbols occur on Syrian and
Asianic seal-stones.
^fv3
62 jj*—» Fig. 35&. This symbol, with the tangential offshoots
uoj) suggesting revolution, seems to fit on to No. 60 and to be
^««r of solar import. For the concentric circles as a solar
emblem compare the Egyptian fo) Sep — times (vices), and the circle with
a central dot is also the Chinese symbol for sun. The eye symbol, No. 4,
approaches tbis very closely.
56 wT,^ Fig. 31c. Perhaps a lily. This form is more pictorial
^^F than the others. Compare the Hittite ^7 Hamath
-4^^ST (Wright, op. cit. Pi. IV. li. 2 and S). O^
57 V # V ^S- 32^- I have placed this symbol, as completed, amongst
floral forms from its apparent analogy to the Hittite
<\^ox? as seen on the monument at Ivriz (Ramsay and
>—-^ Hogarth, Prehellenic Monuments of Cappadocia, PL
III.). The dot which occurs above both symbols may
be reasonably interpreted as representing the head of a stamen or pistil, as
those of the lily, No. 56.
Figs. 375, 40. Tree symbol. On a Mycenaean lentoid
gem, now in the Museum of the Syllogos at Candia, a
votary is seen blowing a conch-shell before an altar,
behind which is a sacred grove with trees in the
same conventional style. M A similar degeneration
of the sacred tree occurs «s on Cypriote cylinders.
59 J Fig. 28b, repeated. Spray or branch, and the same is seen
duplicated on Fig. 29c.
Heavenly Bodies and Derivatives.
Fig. 33c. Day-star, or sun, with eight revolving rays.
61 y I j Fig. 27a (the rays more revolving). Day-star, or sun,
with twelve rays. Star-like symbols occur on Syrian and
Asianic seal-stones.
^fv3
62 jj*—» Fig. 35&. This symbol, with the tangential offshoots
uoj) suggesting revolution, seems to fit on to No. 60 and to be
^««r of solar import. For the concentric circles as a solar
emblem compare the Egyptian fo) Sep — times (vices), and the circle with
a central dot is also the Chinese symbol for sun. The eye symbol, No. 4,
approaches tbis very closely.