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.

the single limbs and pathological specimens of the Petsofa class are wanting.
On the other hand, a votive male figure of bronze found with female images
of faience by the South Propylaeum at Knossos, and, in a grander way, the
contents of the Repositories themselves point, like the miniature axes of its
shrines, to a votive cult within the walls of the Palace very similar to that
of Psychro. The double axes and other votive weapons discovered by
Mr. Hogarth in the lower vault of the Cave wedged into the natural pillars
of stalagmite find, as already noticed,1 a ritual parallel in the double axes

Fig. 470. Bronze Votive Tablet from Psychro Cave.

Bronze

Votive

Tablet

from

Psychro

Cave.

stuck into the shafts of the Knossian shrine seen in the early wall-painting
a feature taken over by Mycenae.

Interesting information as to the character of the worship with which
the Psychro Libation Table was associated is supplied by a small bronze
tablet found some years back in the votive deposit of the Cave and repro-
duced for the first time 2 in Fig. 470. It is a thin oblong plate with rude
designs executed in repousse outlines. Its double border of short bars—■
a pattern in its origin of textile derivation—offers a distinct parallelism with
that of the well-known painted stucco tablet of L. M. I date3 presenting
a scene of worship from the Acropolis of Mycenae, itself of a votive character.

1 See above, p. 444. 3 See G. Rodenwaldt, Votivpinax aus

2 This object, with other relics obtained by Mykenai {Mitt. d. k. d. Arch, hist., 1912,
me during my early visits to Psychro, is now p. 129 seqq.).

in the Ashmolean Museum.