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)

558 MINOAN COW AND CALF MOTIVE ON GREEK COINS

if f«aV well be asked whether-over and above the traditional usage of the
tyJe, for which * catena maybe established-this renaissance factor may

Stag

suckling

fawn.

Fig. 520. Greek Coins with Cow and Calf Type, Vth-IVth Century, b.c. : a, b, Mace-
donia (?); c, Corcyra ; d, Dyrrhachum ; e, with Inscription E/V. (f)

not also have played a part at least in the more elaborate versions of the
motive found on Fifth- and Fourth-century coin-types (see Fig. 520). Such
an influence is in fact suggested by the remarkable fact that on the Fifth-
century coinage of Corcyra's mother-city, Eretria, a parallel Minoan seal-
type, piesenting a cow scratching her head, seems certainly to be reproduced.

aorLdT^ T, Sh°Wn bd0W' belon^ t0 a characteristic pnr* device
applied to a whole group of Minoan animals i

the

Horned Fallow Deer suckling Fawn.

^r!S6nt0id *0m ^e Third Shaft Grave at Mycenae

motive applied to a f.ll - • °rave at 1Vi>'cen^ '

Seeh.! °W deei'' the daPP^S Of which are dead)

jee be ow n r.—------ A l

;SeebeiOW)p.55oseqq

- bchliemann, Mycenae, p. 202 p.

ihoW

incli

15,

and Text, p. 59, Fig. 15, who remai
Arbeit nach guten Vorbildern '.

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