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)

48o VOTIVE MONUMENT WITH BOYS' PLAITED I fJCI

Steatite Ex Votes in the form of plaited locks from Knossian Sh ■

and Mycenae. e

repS-' There is evidence that in Greece such ceremonial dedications wer

tationsof recorded also in a glyptic shape. Pausanias relates that on the 1 ?

tresses:
Thessa-
lian
stela.

Fig. 403. Votive Monument with Plaited Locks of Boys dedicated to
Poseidon : Thessalian Thebes.

ffer to
f his

of the Kephisos there was a statue of a youth shearing his hair to o
the stream, just as Peleus had vowed to offer to the Spercheios those o
son Achilles should he return from Troy.1 On the other hand, a votive mo
ment, the front of which is cut to represent a shrine (aedicula), found o
site of the Thessalian Thebes, displays in relief two long, elaborately p ;
locks of boys offered by their father on their behalf to Poseidon (Fig-

1 Paus. i. 37. 3, and cf. //. xxiii. 141 seqq. and p. 32, who compares the EP'°"' ie0/„gia

- In the British Museum {Catalogue of Gr. vi, c. 21, Ep. 1; Potter, ^. j tins

Sculptures, i, 98). Cf. Millingen, Ancient Gracca, iii, c. 20. It is possible t ^'^g

Unedited Monuments, Series 2, PI. XVI, 2, case the occasion of the boys a.