Cook, Arthur Bernard, 1868-1952 · Cambridge, [Eng.] : University Press · leaf 685
e, the Apolline figure is expressly named Mamas (ormore often Mama), and Sir G. F. Hill8 has made out a strong casefor regarding this divine pair as Marnas, the young Cretan Zeus,who—be it remembered—-was himself a hunter9, with Britomartis,a Cretan form of Artemis10. The pair bore names of kindred… … Fig- 374- Fig. 375- better matched. Naturally, however, among a Semitic people thename Marnas was re-interpreted as Mama, our Lord, and tendedto drop its final sibilant13. incised in an archaic alphabet of Graeco-Phoenician character (see e.g. Roberts Gk. Epigr.p. 4 § 4), and Professor S. Langdon…
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