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Mycenae : a narrative of researches and discoveries at Mycenae and Tiryns (1878)

Schliemann, Heinrich, 1822-1890 · New York, Scribner, Armstrong · leaf 188

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th a Cows head.(2 M.) Actual size. * See No. 94. + See No. 106. 14 io6 EXCAVATIONS IN THE CITADEL. [Chap. IV. that with a round uncovered birds head,* and that witha very compressed head, with large eyes, and z.polos in theform of a bowl, on which is often painted a cross; boththese idols hold… … No. i6i. Cow-headed Idols of Hera. (i-S M.) Half-size. may have been intended primitively to represent the fullmoon, because Hera was originally the moon-goddess, andher cow-horns, and subsequently her whole cow-character,cannot but be derived from the symbolic horns of thecrescent moon. Lastly, I…

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