History of art in primitive Greece; Mycenian art from the French of Georges Perrot ... and Charles Chipiez. Illustrated with five hundred and forty-four engravings in the text, and twenty coloured plates (1894)
Perrot, Georges, 1832-1914, Chipiez, Charles, 1835-1901, Gonino, I · London, Chapman and Hall, Limited · leaf 322
o, was current there throughout historical times. She was represented under the semblance of a cow whose horns, circling over the head, recalled the crescent moon. This deity seems to have been very popular at Mycenae, for Schliemann says that he found fragments of about seven hundred cow figures… … Fig. 389. — Terra-cotta cow. A trifle below actual size. the horns in our opinion were reminiscent of those of the heifer usually sacrificed to the Argian deity ; in the same way as, later on, Pan was represented with ram’s horns, because that animal was immolated to him. Poor folk, however, could…
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