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Mycen©Œ : a narrative of researches and discoveries at Mycen©Œ and Tiryns (1878)

Schliemann, Heinrich, 1822-1890 · New York : Scribner, Armstrong · leaf 191

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with a Cows head,(a M.) Actual size. * See No. 94. + See No. 106. 106 EXCAVATIONS IN THE CITADEL. [Chap. IV. that with a round uncovered birds head,* and that witha very compressed head, with large eyes, and a. polos in theform of a bowl, on which is often painted a cross; boththese idols hold… … No. 161. Cow-headed Idols of Hera. (1-5M,] 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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