The Palace of Knossos: Provisional Report for the Year 1903 (in: The Annual of the British School at Athens, 9.1902/1903, S. 1-153) (London, 1903)

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a sacral significance. On a gold signet ring from Mycenae1 two knots of
the same kind are seen suspended from the entablature of a sacred pillar
between two lion guardians, while on a seal impression from the Palace of
Knossos they are suspended from a sacred tree. On a lentoid gem from

Fig. 3.—Pedestal ok Purple Gypsum Fig. 4.—Sacral Knot ok

(about i). Ivory (§).

the Heraeum 1 two similar knots are seen on either side of a bull's head
surmounted by the Double Axe. Again, on a lentoid gem found in the

1 Mycenaean Tree and Pillar Cult, p. 61, Fig. 39 and p. 62.

2 Schliemann, Mycenae, p. 362, Kig. 541 ; Furtwangler, Antike Gemmen, PI. II. 42.