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' THE RING OF NESTOR,' ETC.

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impression from Knossos it actually suggests the Eye of Horus, so frequent
among Egyptian amulets,43 and leads us to the design on a remarkable gold
signet from the built tomb of Isopata,14 where the Saered Eye appears in
the background of a scene of ecstatic dance as the visible impersonation of
the divinity (Fig. 51).

Fig. 52.—Gold Scales Butterflies and Chrysalises from Third Shaft Grave, Mycenae.

Very suggestive evidence as to the connexion of the eyed butterfly type
with the human soul is supplied by two objects discovered in the Third Shaft
Grave at Mycenae, in which so many gold plates with this representation came
to light. These are gold disks intended for scales, forming part of a
balance, and presenting.on each embossed images of such butterflies (Fig. 52,
2, and p. 42. Fig. 40). They are of the thin fabric characteristic of objects

43 Cf. P. of M., i. p. 706.

44 Tomb of the Double-Axes, etc. (Archaeo-

logia, lxv., 1914), p. 10, Fig. 16.