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REPLICA OF 'PRIEST-KING' RELIEF REPLACED 795
continuation West of that containing the remains of the lily-crowned personage,
we have seen that the section immediately preceding the exit on the West
Court was marked by the lower part of a female figure magnificently attired
and identified above with the Minoan Goddess. There is a fair presumption
then that the short section of the present ' South-
North Corridor' which intervenes between that
occupied on its East side by the relief of the Priest-
King and, ex hypothesis of the sacred monster in his
train, and the opening on the Central Court may
have enshrined within it an effigy of the Goddess
executed in a similar style. We may well believe
that it depicted her under the same chthonic aspect
as on the gem and holding, as there, the insignia both
of spiritual and temporal power which could on
occasion be transferred to her Vicegerent.
To preserve—as in the case of the ' Cup-
bearer'—a record on the spot of the 'Priest-King'
Fresco itself, Monsieur Gillieron, fils, has executed for
me, on the basis of a cast of the existing parts,
a coloured replica of the panel, as it originally existed.
The adjoining section of the Corridor has been
Fig. 519. ' lustral reconstjtutec| bein<j partly roofed over to shelter
Sprinkler on M. M. Ill b ' b. }
Sherd : completed. the figure from the inclemency of the weather. For
this the column of the adjoining stylobate has
been restored, while to protect the colouring from the rays of the Westering
sun, part of the walls of the little light-area beyond have been rebuilt (see
Suppl. PL XXIX).
The two steps visible in the centre of the Plate lead up to the Central
Court of the Palace, a small section of its stylobate rising above them.
Farther along the Western facade of this stood, as we shall see, the little
pillar shrine which, together with the sanctuary structure behind it, marks the
central point of the cu't of the Great Minoan Goddess whose effigy appears
on its sealings, and whose earlier snake-wreathed image was found in the
adjoining Repository.
Was there
also a re-
lief of the
Goddess ?
Restora-
tion on
the spot
of'Priest-
King ' re-
lief.
Approach
to Central
Court and
sanctuary
beyond.
continuation West of that containing the remains of the lily-crowned personage,
we have seen that the section immediately preceding the exit on the West
Court was marked by the lower part of a female figure magnificently attired
and identified above with the Minoan Goddess. There is a fair presumption
then that the short section of the present ' South-
North Corridor' which intervenes between that
occupied on its East side by the relief of the Priest-
King and, ex hypothesis of the sacred monster in his
train, and the opening on the Central Court may
have enshrined within it an effigy of the Goddess
executed in a similar style. We may well believe
that it depicted her under the same chthonic aspect
as on the gem and holding, as there, the insignia both
of spiritual and temporal power which could on
occasion be transferred to her Vicegerent.
To preserve—as in the case of the ' Cup-
bearer'—a record on the spot of the 'Priest-King'
Fresco itself, Monsieur Gillieron, fils, has executed for
me, on the basis of a cast of the existing parts,
a coloured replica of the panel, as it originally existed.
The adjoining section of the Corridor has been
Fig. 519. ' lustral reconstjtutec| bein<j partly roofed over to shelter
Sprinkler on M. M. Ill b ' b. }
Sherd : completed. the figure from the inclemency of the weather. For
this the column of the adjoining stylobate has
been restored, while to protect the colouring from the rays of the Westering
sun, part of the walls of the little light-area beyond have been rebuilt (see
Suppl. PL XXIX).
The two steps visible in the centre of the Plate lead up to the Central
Court of the Palace, a small section of its stylobate rising above them.
Farther along the Western facade of this stood, as we shall see, the little
pillar shrine which, together with the sanctuary structure behind it, marks the
central point of the cu't of the Great Minoan Goddess whose effigy appears
on its sealings, and whose earlier snake-wreathed image was found in the
adjoining Repository.
Was there
also a re-
lief of the
Goddess ?
Restora-
tion on
the spot
of'Priest-
King ' re-
lief.
Approach
to Central
Court and
sanctuary
beyond.