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Knossos Excavations, 1903.
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young on the faience reliefs of the shrine, bringing these subjects into
natural connexion with the worship of a Mother Goddess,1 sufficiently
explains the occurrence of similar designs on the seal impressions, Nos.
28 and 29. The large horned sheep of Nos. 25 and 26 acquires,
as will be shown below,'2 a definite religious character from the Swastika
symbol inserted in the field above it. On the other hand the cross which
stands as the sole type on No. 45 3 (see Fig. 61, p. 90 below) connects itself
with what may well be regarded as the most important ritual object found
in the Repository. On the importance of these cruciform symbols in
connexion with the Palace cult more will be said below.
The warrior God and Goddess with their lion guardians, exhibited by
Nos. 46 and 47, bring the present series into direct relation with the
sealings depicting a warrior Goddess on her lion-guarded peak found in
the recess immediately East of the Repositories in 1901.4 The seal from
which the present design of the female divinity was taken5 was in this
case smaller and has been simplified by the omission of the rocky peak,
the pillar temple, and the votary. But it clearly represents the same
1 See below, p. 86.
3 The cross type appears five times on the side of clay disks : one with inscribed characters on
its face. On the same disk appears impressions of a couched bovine animal on a base (No. 27) and.
a facade with masonry (No. S).
4 See Report, &c, 1901, p. 29, Fig. 9.
8 There were eleven examples of this type in the Repository.
Fig. 37.—Clay Seal Impression
Warrior Goddess and lion (f).
Fig. 38.—Clay Seal Impression :
Armed God and Lioness (?)
2 See p. 88.
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young on the faience reliefs of the shrine, bringing these subjects into
natural connexion with the worship of a Mother Goddess,1 sufficiently
explains the occurrence of similar designs on the seal impressions, Nos.
28 and 29. The large horned sheep of Nos. 25 and 26 acquires,
as will be shown below,'2 a definite religious character from the Swastika
symbol inserted in the field above it. On the other hand the cross which
stands as the sole type on No. 45 3 (see Fig. 61, p. 90 below) connects itself
with what may well be regarded as the most important ritual object found
in the Repository. On the importance of these cruciform symbols in
connexion with the Palace cult more will be said below.
The warrior God and Goddess with their lion guardians, exhibited by
Nos. 46 and 47, bring the present series into direct relation with the
sealings depicting a warrior Goddess on her lion-guarded peak found in
the recess immediately East of the Repositories in 1901.4 The seal from
which the present design of the female divinity was taken5 was in this
case smaller and has been simplified by the omission of the rocky peak,
the pillar temple, and the votary. But it clearly represents the same
1 See below, p. 86.
3 The cross type appears five times on the side of clay disks : one with inscribed characters on
its face. On the same disk appears impressions of a couched bovine animal on a base (No. 27) and.
a facade with masonry (No. S).
4 See Report, &c, 1901, p. 29, Fig. 9.
8 There were eleven examples of this type in the Repository.
Fig. 37.—Clay Seal Impression
Warrior Goddess and lion (f).
Fig. 38.—Clay Seal Impression :
Armed God and Lioness (?)
2 See p. 88.