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MYCENAEAN TREE AND PTLLAE CULT.
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have not been recognised as the sacred animals and companions of
a tutelary divinity, but merely as symbolic figures of the military might of
those who held the walls of the citadel, and as a challenge to their foes.1 The -
column itself and the architrave and beam-ends that it supports have been •
taken, with the altars below, to stand for the Palace of the Mycenaean Kings.2
Some of the earlier writers, indeed, advanced views on the subject of this relief,
which in certaiu respects very nearly approximated to the true explanation.
Colonel Mure,3 and after him Gerhard,4 and Curtius,8 saw in the column
Fig. 35.—Tympanum Relief of Lions' Gate, Mycenae.
between the Lions a ' symbol' of Apollo Agyieus, and Gottling regarded it as a
Herm.0 But such comparisons have been wholly set aside by most later critics.
1893, ]>. 705 and p. 730) not only rightly
describes the column as an aniconic image,
but uses the fact of the appearance of the
Goddess in its place on the monument of
Arslan Kaya as an argument for the later
date of the Phrygian relief.
1 Perrot et Chipiez, Greet Primitin , p. 801).
2 Brunn, Grieehinchc Kutwtgeschichte (1893)
pp. 26-28 ; Perrot et Chipiez, o;>. eft. p. 801.
3 Ueber die hOniglichen OrdbmSler den
heroischen ZeitaUirs, Rh< in. Museum, vi
(1838), p. 250. Col. Mure thought the lions
were wolves, and brought Apollo Lykcios into
connexion with them.
J Mykenische AlterthUmer (lC* Programm,
Berliner Winckelmannsfest, Berlin, 1850)
p. 10.
5 Ptlojmnntsox (Ootha, 1852), ii. 405, and
Or. Geschichle, i. 116.
6 HT. Rhein. Museum, i. (1842) p. 161.
Gottling notes the correspondence between
the Mycenaean column glowing smaller to-
wards its base and the Hermae pillars—a
pregnant observation.
157
have not been recognised as the sacred animals and companions of
a tutelary divinity, but merely as symbolic figures of the military might of
those who held the walls of the citadel, and as a challenge to their foes.1 The -
column itself and the architrave and beam-ends that it supports have been •
taken, with the altars below, to stand for the Palace of the Mycenaean Kings.2
Some of the earlier writers, indeed, advanced views on the subject of this relief,
which in certaiu respects very nearly approximated to the true explanation.
Colonel Mure,3 and after him Gerhard,4 and Curtius,8 saw in the column
Fig. 35.—Tympanum Relief of Lions' Gate, Mycenae.
between the Lions a ' symbol' of Apollo Agyieus, and Gottling regarded it as a
Herm.0 But such comparisons have been wholly set aside by most later critics.
1893, ]>. 705 and p. 730) not only rightly
describes the column as an aniconic image,
but uses the fact of the appearance of the
Goddess in its place on the monument of
Arslan Kaya as an argument for the later
date of the Phrygian relief.
1 Perrot et Chipiez, Greet Primitin , p. 801).
2 Brunn, Grieehinchc Kutwtgeschichte (1893)
pp. 26-28 ; Perrot et Chipiez, o;>. eft. p. 801.
3 Ueber die hOniglichen OrdbmSler den
heroischen ZeitaUirs, Rh< in. Museum, vi
(1838), p. 250. Col. Mure thought the lions
were wolves, and brought Apollo Lykcios into
connexion with them.
J Mykenische AlterthUmer (lC* Programm,
Berliner Winckelmannsfest, Berlin, 1850)
p. 10.
5 Ptlojmnntsox (Ootha, 1852), ii. 405, and
Or. Geschichle, i. 116.
6 HT. Rhein. Museum, i. (1842) p. 161.
Gottling notes the correspondence between
the Mycenaean column glowing smaller to-
wards its base and the Hermae pillars—a
pregnant observation.