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CYPRIAN AND SYRIAN DOVE-CULT
Mycenae. On a Syro-Hittite cylinder (Fig. 348/;) a dove appears abo
the table of offerings.
Unfortunately, as regards the closely allied Syro-Hittite class it '
precisely in die Cilician region opposite Cyprus, included between the
Taurus and Amanus ranges, that
Hittite monumental evidence fails
us. It is, indeed, in this main-
land region that we should natur-
ally find the best intervening links
with Cyprus, while at the same
time names of persons and places
recur that are bound up with the
earliest traditions of Crete.
What associations with the
residential seat of Minos himself
are not called up by Cilician names
like Mn6s and Knos ! The Kory-
kian Cave sanctuary, where these occur, shares its name with a promontory
of North-Western Crete, while Mallia—the site of the early Palace in its
more Easterly region—and other similar place-names, suggest the renowned
Cilician town of Mallos, the mention of which in Egyptian lists is so often
found before that of the ' land of Keftiu '.
So far, however, as Cyprus is concerned, the lacuna in the archaeo-
logical evidence is partly bridged by the occurrence of certain cyhndei
types which, though acquired or found in the Island, may have at tunes
been executed in the opposite mainland region. Among these are designs
showing, as accessories to the main subject, and on a smaller scale, Gnrbns
and Sphinxes, lions, ibexes, and other animals, often in double rows, an
accompanied with-a;' chain ' or guilldclie pattern. In a general sense sue
cylinders must be grouped with the widely diffused 'Syro-Hittite clas ,
of which there seems to have been a Cilician branch.
Iug. 338. Cylinder from Old Salamis
showing Dove perched on Shrine.
Coalescence of Syrian and Cyprian Dove-cult with Minoan: a Hitti e
Cylinder found in Greece.
Another cylinder from Salamis1 fits on very closely to this s
On it, with a small lion and griffin behind, two votaries are depic
offering a bird—here reasonably identified with a dove —to the Ooc
1 Cesnola, Sa/aminia, p. 121, Fig. 115.
CYPRIAN AND SYRIAN DOVE-CULT
Mycenae. On a Syro-Hittite cylinder (Fig. 348/;) a dove appears abo
the table of offerings.
Unfortunately, as regards the closely allied Syro-Hittite class it '
precisely in die Cilician region opposite Cyprus, included between the
Taurus and Amanus ranges, that
Hittite monumental evidence fails
us. It is, indeed, in this main-
land region that we should natur-
ally find the best intervening links
with Cyprus, while at the same
time names of persons and places
recur that are bound up with the
earliest traditions of Crete.
What associations with the
residential seat of Minos himself
are not called up by Cilician names
like Mn6s and Knos ! The Kory-
kian Cave sanctuary, where these occur, shares its name with a promontory
of North-Western Crete, while Mallia—the site of the early Palace in its
more Easterly region—and other similar place-names, suggest the renowned
Cilician town of Mallos, the mention of which in Egyptian lists is so often
found before that of the ' land of Keftiu '.
So far, however, as Cyprus is concerned, the lacuna in the archaeo-
logical evidence is partly bridged by the occurrence of certain cyhndei
types which, though acquired or found in the Island, may have at tunes
been executed in the opposite mainland region. Among these are designs
showing, as accessories to the main subject, and on a smaller scale, Gnrbns
and Sphinxes, lions, ibexes, and other animals, often in double rows, an
accompanied with-a;' chain ' or guilldclie pattern. In a general sense sue
cylinders must be grouped with the widely diffused 'Syro-Hittite clas ,
of which there seems to have been a Cilician branch.
Iug. 338. Cylinder from Old Salamis
showing Dove perched on Shrine.
Coalescence of Syrian and Cyprian Dove-cult with Minoan: a Hitti e
Cylinder found in Greece.
Another cylinder from Salamis1 fits on very closely to this s
On it, with a small lion and griffin behind, two votaries are depic
offering a bird—here reasonably identified with a dove —to the Ooc
1 Cesnola, Sa/aminia, p. 121, Fig. 115.