Cretan pictographs and prae-Phoenician script : with an account of a sepulchral deposit at Hagios Onuphrios near Phaestos in its relation to primitive Cretan and Aegean culture (1895)
Evans, Arthur, Sir, 1851-1941 · London : B. Quaritch ; New York : G. P. Putnam's · leaf 82
having the limbs and body of a man but apparentlyeither lion-headed or coifed in a lions scalp. In this case we seem to havethe primitive predecessor of the lion-headed human figures of Mycenaean 70 FROM CRETE AND THE PELOPONXESK. [339] art;34 the parallelism indeed is of a double nature, for the… … 58«, 536. Fig. 68.—Baows Steatite (Cuete—Uncertain- Locality). But this carriers function is precisely what is so often found inthe case of the mysterious daemons on the later gems, and in the well-known fresco from Mycenae. The association with vessels also reminds us
Inscriptions, Linear A · Inscriptions, Greek · Civilization, Mycenaean
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