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544 WOUNDED LION TRYING TO EXTRACT ARROW
young animal itself, mark this gem as belonging to the great Ao-e. It wo ij
hardly be safe to bring down the work beyond the very earliest Late Mino
phase. In its free style it shows some affinity with the gallopino- steer .
a Vapheio lentoid (L. M. I A)? We already see a fine adaptation of th
design to a circular field. This, however, is still sufficiently removed from
the more elaborate packing of the space so characteristic of many seal-
types of the last Palace epoch (L. M. II) and later, belonging to the true
' lentoid' style.
That this or slightly variant types of the same design had a certain
vogue in the Minoan World is shown by its recurrence on a mottled
cornelian lentoid from Mycenae (Fig. 499),2 though in this instance the arrow
penetrates from above, entirely out of reach of the calf's leg.
In this, as in the familiar lion and bull group dealt with above, the
specialized artistic versions of the wounded animal fit on to an indigenous
class of which the subject was the native agriml, serving the purpose of
'sympathetic magic' for the Cretan hunter. In its specialized artistic form,
where the stricken animal tries to withdraw the arrow from its flank, we see
the subject applied to the youngling of a herd of wild cattle, such as seem
early to have existed in the Cretan lowlands.
Similar Scheme transferred to Wounded Lion.
Similar In this case, too, we see an artistic scheme that had been first applied
trans-' t0 an indigenous quarry transferred to the lion, from the First Late Minoan
fared to epoch onwards, which had been rendered familiar by the Minoan extension
wounded L J
lion. on the Mainland side.
A pictorial type parallel to that of Fig. 498 appears on a sardonyx
lentoid (Fig. 5U0)3 from the Vapheio Tomb, in which a lion replaces the
calf (L. M.TiS). Here conventional rocks are introduced beneath the
lion's fore-quarters. A fragmentary clay impression of a lentoid gen,
presenting a similar design of a wounded lion among rocks, occurred
Knossos in the ' lewel Fresco' area, under stratieraphic conditions pom o
to about the same date. The same wounded lion scheme is seen on a U i
seal impression from HagiaTriada (Fig-. 502) ;4 in Fig. 501 he seeks to extra
' 'E<£.*Apx-, 1889, PI. X, 14. 'recumbent' is erroneous. It is called a ^J
- B.M. Cat. Engraved Gems, &c. (H. B. lot cit, but. like the other, is in fact a ca
Walters), PI. II, 6f>, and p. 9. The head, too, sprouting horns. ^ . £,,
is thrown farther back. As on the example, M 'E(J>. 'Apx-j 1889, PI: X, 8. l'u! * *' '
Pig. 498, the mouth is open, with protruding III, 35. „. p 33,
tongue. There is a greater bending of the off '' Levi, Creiule di Hagla Tn<ida, *~>
hind-leg, but the description of the animal as Fig. 69.
young animal itself, mark this gem as belonging to the great Ao-e. It wo ij
hardly be safe to bring down the work beyond the very earliest Late Mino
phase. In its free style it shows some affinity with the gallopino- steer .
a Vapheio lentoid (L. M. I A)? We already see a fine adaptation of th
design to a circular field. This, however, is still sufficiently removed from
the more elaborate packing of the space so characteristic of many seal-
types of the last Palace epoch (L. M. II) and later, belonging to the true
' lentoid' style.
That this or slightly variant types of the same design had a certain
vogue in the Minoan World is shown by its recurrence on a mottled
cornelian lentoid from Mycenae (Fig. 499),2 though in this instance the arrow
penetrates from above, entirely out of reach of the calf's leg.
In this, as in the familiar lion and bull group dealt with above, the
specialized artistic versions of the wounded animal fit on to an indigenous
class of which the subject was the native agriml, serving the purpose of
'sympathetic magic' for the Cretan hunter. In its specialized artistic form,
where the stricken animal tries to withdraw the arrow from its flank, we see
the subject applied to the youngling of a herd of wild cattle, such as seem
early to have existed in the Cretan lowlands.
Similar Scheme transferred to Wounded Lion.
Similar In this case, too, we see an artistic scheme that had been first applied
trans-' t0 an indigenous quarry transferred to the lion, from the First Late Minoan
fared to epoch onwards, which had been rendered familiar by the Minoan extension
wounded L J
lion. on the Mainland side.
A pictorial type parallel to that of Fig. 498 appears on a sardonyx
lentoid (Fig. 5U0)3 from the Vapheio Tomb, in which a lion replaces the
calf (L. M.TiS). Here conventional rocks are introduced beneath the
lion's fore-quarters. A fragmentary clay impression of a lentoid gen,
presenting a similar design of a wounded lion among rocks, occurred
Knossos in the ' lewel Fresco' area, under stratieraphic conditions pom o
to about the same date. The same wounded lion scheme is seen on a U i
seal impression from HagiaTriada (Fig-. 502) ;4 in Fig. 501 he seeks to extra
' 'E<£.*Apx-, 1889, PI. X, 14. 'recumbent' is erroneous. It is called a ^J
- B.M. Cat. Engraved Gems, &c. (H. B. lot cit, but. like the other, is in fact a ca
Walters), PI. II, 6f>, and p. 9. The head, too, sprouting horns. ^ . £,,
is thrown farther back. As on the example, M 'E(J>. 'Apx-j 1889, PI: X, 8. l'u! * *' '
Pig. 498, the mouth is open, with protruding III, 35. „. p 33,
tongue. There is a greater bending of the off '' Levi, Creiule di Hagla Tn<ida, *~>
hind-leg, but the description of the animal as Fig. 69.