Evans, Arthur J.: The Palace of Minos: a comparative account of the successive stages of the early Cretan civilization as illustred by the discoveries at Knossos (Band 1): The Neolithic and Early and Middle Minoan Ages (London, 1921)

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of a headpiece had already been brought into connexion with it, showing
a series of raised medallions, forming perhaps a conventional rendering of
an original crown of roses. A small circular rivet hole on the flat upper

Her

Lioness

Crest.

Fig. 362, a, b, c, d. Upper Part of Faience Figure with Head restored (a, b);
c, d show Lower Part of Seated Animal and Tiara with Rivet Holes. (§)

surface of this (see Fig. 362,^) was further found to answer to a similar
feature on the base of a miniature lioness or spotted pard from the same
Repository 1 (c), suggesting the almost certain restoration seen in Fig. 362,
a and b. The spots taken over, perhaps through analogy with the snakes,

1 This observation was first made by the artist, Mr. Halvor Bagge, to whom the restored
drawing in Fig. 362 is due.