Cook, Arthur Bernard, 1868-1952 · Cambridge [Eng.] The University Press · leaf 745
ts and priestesses 621 and perforated, the handle prolonged above it so that it could begrasped at either end. The other man, who is seemingly nude,stands at a little distance facing the axe-bearer with a gesture ofrespect. What these various figures signify, we cannot tell. But it isreasonable to… … Fig. 518. A glandular sardonyx from the Vaphio tomb (fig. 5I9)^ now inthe Central Museum at Athens^, has incised upon it a beardlessman in a long robe, who raises his right hand in the attitude ofadoration and supports on his left shoulder an axe crescentic andholed as before. G. Perrot and C.…
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