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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THE PALACE OF MINOS, ETC.

'Wave'or is the recurrence of a wave-like motive, the origins of which, however, do

'Notched not he]ono- to textile industry.

Plume & ...

decora- The same ornament is seen in its true connexion on two votive arrow-
Votive plumes of bone found with other relics of the Shrine of the Snake Goddess
Arrows. in fa 'Temple Repository' (Fig. 399, a).1

Votive
Arrows of
Minoan
Artemis.

b.

Fig. 399. a, Bone Arrow Plume and l\ Fresco Fragment, apparently of Large
Griffin's Wing, showing 'Notched Plume' Decoration.

The associations in which these objects were found may be taken to
imply that they were dedicated to the Minoan Goddess in her quality of
Lady of the Chase, so prominent in her later impersonation as Diktynna or
Britomartis, identified by the Greeks with Artemis. On a cornelian lentoid
from Crete, indeed, the Goddess, here of very matronly proportions, is seen
in the act of drawing a bow.2

Both specimens of these plumes are smooth below, with two rivet-holes,
by means of which they seem to have been attached to a plate of metal.

1 See, too, Knossos, Report, 1903, p. 61.

2 Furtwangler, Ant ike Gemmen, PI. ii, 24 ; Berlin, Katalog, No. 2.