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 4,2): Camp-stool Fresco, long-robed priests and beneficent genii [...] (London, 1935)

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THE HIPPOPOTAMUS GODDESS TA-URT

Resem-
blances

pre-
sented by
the

Minoan
daemons.

Fig. 356. Hippopotamus Goddess, Ta-urt ; a, bearing
Crocodile on back ; />, carrying it in hand.

back. Fig. 357, however, from the Ramesseum at Thebes '-
shown in an astral rela-
tion, of which more will
be said below—gives a =^«
fairly good impression ^^
of the original type.
In its main features
it is practically identi-
cal with the earlier de-
sign from the Sen-mut
Tomb shown in Fig.
362 below. The figure
here with the mane ris-
ing in front of the head
and the tongue pro-
truding, and the preg-
nant outline of the
body, shows points of resemblance
with that of more than one Minoan
Genius.

There can be no question, for
instance, of the general correspon-
dence with the design of the kid-
holdingdaemon on thecomelianbead-
seal from a Phaestos tomb,2 Fig.
35S, a, though in that case the upper
corner is fractured. The pot-bellied
outline and the pose of the legs with
their feet, in this case clearly clawed,
is practically identical. That one
design is closely related to the other
it is impossible to doubt. The con-
formity even extends to the carrying
of a young animal

1 H. Brugsch, Thesaurus Inscriplionum
Aegyptidcarum, Ft. I, p. 124, Fig. 2: the
Hippopotamus Goddess (2) holding up a small
crocodile and gvaspinga sword-like instrument
(it), to left of which are the rings of the
chain by which (5) the forepart of the bull

-wh

ere she is

Fig. c

. Hippopotamus Guarding
sign; Ramesseum.

' hadncb '

iTc- .■:.' ; crocodile, in the other a kid. I he due
sign (Maskhcti) is attached. Horus (+) a
left aims a spear at this. To right
' Scorpion ' Goddess (Salget).

•- Savignoni, Mm. Ant. xiv (1904), P- "5'
Fig. 97 a.