268
SCRIPTA MINOA
mask itself was rather the personal badge or appellative. That the animal figures
connected with the groups should be taken in a personal relation can hardly be
doubted.
It is interesting to observe that the oldest examples of the gate and leg series,
as shown on the bead-seals, P. i and 10 respectively, are associated on other faces of
the stones, in the one case with a male figure—confirming the personal application
of the formula; in the other with two of the types parlants already referred to, namely,
I
0 "
i
A
5
SUGGESTED
MEANING
COMBINATIONS
Gate or Door
Keeper or
Guardian
With
. Guardian and
Leader
Bent Human
Leg
Leader
w,™
1 Guardian AMD
' Leader
Human Eye
Overseer or
Governor
4
\ Overseer and
Builder of
Palaces
Trowel
Mason
Bricklayer
BuitDER
With
5
Builder or
I Founder
<">"
Carpenter
Builder
WITH
\ [of Palaces]
Template
Wall-painter
Beautifier
With
4
Founder and
Beautifier of
Sanctuary
Sacred
Double Axe
[Labrys]
Place of the
With
Guardian of
the ' Labrys '
Sanctuary
Arrow
Hunter
Warrior
With
4
Warrior and
Founder
Fig. 120 (Table
XXIII). Official
rities.
the crouching dog and the spider. The animal figures, occurring thus on a signet type
of the more primitive style, must in this case be regarded as the canting badges of an
earlier generation.
To the later generation of the 'gate and leg' family, indicated by An, are
appended other closely related groups, of which D is found four times occupying
another face of the same seal. Another of these, E, reappears on P. 29 b with the
addition of the spider, and on P. 48 c with the ass's head. Through E, in combination
with F, the 'gate and leg' is linked with a group showing the wolfs head. The
SCRIPTA MINOA
mask itself was rather the personal badge or appellative. That the animal figures
connected with the groups should be taken in a personal relation can hardly be
doubted.
It is interesting to observe that the oldest examples of the gate and leg series,
as shown on the bead-seals, P. i and 10 respectively, are associated on other faces of
the stones, in the one case with a male figure—confirming the personal application
of the formula; in the other with two of the types parlants already referred to, namely,
I
0 "
i
A
5
SUGGESTED
MEANING
COMBINATIONS
Gate or Door
Keeper or
Guardian
With
. Guardian and
Leader
Bent Human
Leg
Leader
w,™
1 Guardian AMD
' Leader
Human Eye
Overseer or
Governor
4
\ Overseer and
Builder of
Palaces
Trowel
Mason
Bricklayer
BuitDER
With
5
Builder or
I Founder
<">"
Carpenter
Builder
WITH
\ [of Palaces]
Template
Wall-painter
Beautifier
With
4
Founder and
Beautifier of
Sanctuary
Sacred
Double Axe
[Labrys]
Place of the
With
Guardian of
the ' Labrys '
Sanctuary
Arrow
Hunter
Warrior
With
4
Warrior and
Founder
Fig. 120 (Table
XXIII). Official
rities.
the crouching dog and the spider. The animal figures, occurring thus on a signet type
of the more primitive style, must in this case be regarded as the canting badges of an
earlier generation.
To the later generation of the 'gate and leg' family, indicated by An, are
appended other closely related groups, of which D is found four times occupying
another face of the same seal. Another of these, E, reappears on P. 29 b with the
addition of the spider, and on P. 48 c with the ass's head. Through E, in combination
with F, the 'gate and leg' is linked with a group showing the wolfs head. The