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ARTHUR J. EVANS
at the foot of the double axe or labrys, which in this case is less a symbol
than a material impersonation of the divinity. It is equally associated with
sacred pillars. On a Mycenaean gold ring
it is placed at the foot of such a pillar,
here seen within a shrine,1 and it is un-
questionably the same ritual object which
is outlined beneath the three pillar idols
on the dove-shrines from the third Akro-
polis grave.2 Its appearance in a redupli-
cated form on the altar which forms the
central pi-ominence above has already
been noted, and in addition to this it is
also repeated above the entablature of
what may be described as the lateral
chapels, the doves here using the outer-
most horns as a perch. It thus appears
no less than seven times on each of the
gold shrines. In the remarkable fresco
painting to be described below of the
faqade of a small Mycenaean temple from
°H the Palace of Knossos this article of cult
appears at the foot of both the two
columns of the central shrine, and on
either side of each of those in the wings. On another fresco fragment from
the same site reproduced in Fig. 18 four pairs of 'horns of consecration' are
visible above the wall of what is evidently another sanctuary.
Fig. is.—Horns of Consecration
Sanctuary Wall, from Fresco of
Palace, KnoiSos.
An actual example of a similar article of cult may with great probability
be recognised in a hitherto unexplained relic3 of painted terracotta (Fig. 19)
Wolters has made the same suggestion (Jahr-
buch d. L d. Arch. Inst, 1900, p. 148).
ARTHUR J. EVANS
at the foot of the double axe or labrys, which in this case is less a symbol
than a material impersonation of the divinity. It is equally associated with
sacred pillars. On a Mycenaean gold ring
it is placed at the foot of such a pillar,
here seen within a shrine,1 and it is un-
questionably the same ritual object which
is outlined beneath the three pillar idols
on the dove-shrines from the third Akro-
polis grave.2 Its appearance in a redupli-
cated form on the altar which forms the
central pi-ominence above has already
been noted, and in addition to this it is
also repeated above the entablature of
what may be described as the lateral
chapels, the doves here using the outer-
most horns as a perch. It thus appears
no less than seven times on each of the
gold shrines. In the remarkable fresco
painting to be described below of the
faqade of a small Mycenaean temple from
°H the Palace of Knossos this article of cult
appears at the foot of both the two
columns of the central shrine, and on
either side of each of those in the wings. On another fresco fragment from
the same site reproduced in Fig. 18 four pairs of 'horns of consecration' are
visible above the wall of what is evidently another sanctuary.
Fig. is.—Horns of Consecration
Sanctuary Wall, from Fresco of
Palace, KnoiSos.
An actual example of a similar article of cult may with great probability
be recognised in a hitherto unexplained relic3 of painted terracotta (Fig. 19)
Wolters has made the same suggestion (Jahr-
buch d. L d. Arch. Inst, 1900, p. 148).