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394 PAINTED STUCCO FRAGMENT OF SEATED GODDESS
evidently served to hold the juice expressed from its fruit. The fruit itself ! •
not shown on this intaglio, which simply gives conventional indications of
foliage. On the gold signet-ring from Mycenae the contrary is the case
the branches bear
no leaves, but termi-
nate in what can
only be interpreted as
clusters oi grapes.
One of these bunches
is there being picked
by a little handmaiden
of the Goddess, who
stands on a small
cairn, to offer it to her
divine mistress,sitting
fully robed, beneath
the vine branches.
Fragment In this connexion
explained the small fragment,
us part of r . , _ . ,
Seated u,of the Camp-stool
Goddess. series (?L XXXI I!),
deserves special at-
tention. From the
volute in which the
upper part of the seat
terminates behindl it
is clear that in this
case we have to deal
with some kind of
solid throne or altar
base — probably of
stone or stucco—in
place of a folding-
stool. On the other hand, the dress of the seated figure is also of a very
different kind from that of those of either sex associated in this ft esc
with the camp-stools.
1 It is difficult to explain the black curve that case the sitting room is reduced to i .
and indentation on lire left side of the block, narrow limits.
It looks like the edge of a moulding, but in
Fig
Restoration of seated Figure of Goddess,
based on Fresco Fragment.
evidently served to hold the juice expressed from its fruit. The fruit itself ! •
not shown on this intaglio, which simply gives conventional indications of
foliage. On the gold signet-ring from Mycenae the contrary is the case
the branches bear
no leaves, but termi-
nate in what can
only be interpreted as
clusters oi grapes.
One of these bunches
is there being picked
by a little handmaiden
of the Goddess, who
stands on a small
cairn, to offer it to her
divine mistress,sitting
fully robed, beneath
the vine branches.
Fragment In this connexion
explained the small fragment,
us part of r . , _ . ,
Seated u,of the Camp-stool
Goddess. series (?L XXXI I!),
deserves special at-
tention. From the
volute in which the
upper part of the seat
terminates behindl it
is clear that in this
case we have to deal
with some kind of
solid throne or altar
base — probably of
stone or stucco—in
place of a folding-
stool. On the other hand, the dress of the seated figure is also of a very
different kind from that of those of either sex associated in this ft esc
with the camp-stools.
1 It is difficult to explain the black curve that case the sitting room is reduced to i .
and indentation on lire left side of the block, narrow limits.
It looks like the edge of a moulding, but in
Fig
Restoration of seated Figure of Goddess,
based on Fresco Fragment.