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 4,1): Emergence of outer western enceinte, with new illustrations, artistic and religious, of the Middle Minoan Phase (London, 1935)

THE DOUBLE AXE AS RELIGIOUS MOTIVES

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Fig. 28G. Section of 'Amphora' Design on Fig. 285 with Double Axe on

Low Stand.

for actual use, seem to represent some kind of ( ribbon ' wound round the

blade for ritual decoration.

Axes of this reduplicated type frequently appear on signets and seal-
impressions, at times-as in the case of the large gold ring from Mycenae-
in the field above the Minoan Goddess. On a clay impression from he
Domestic Ouarter, Fig. 287, a, the Goddess, or a votary holds it or> her
shoulder. ~On the broken agate intaglio from the North-We*^Treasur
House, Fig. 287, 3, this axe is seen rising rom a u ^ ^
it is set in reversed position above the neaci 01