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Zeus : a study in ancient religion - Warburg Institute

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to columns or pillars 529<br />

below the sacred edifice is a decorative band of rosettes—a motive,<br />

be it remembered, readily derivable from the Egyptian lotus\ The<br />

stamens of these rosettes, shaped like double axes, recall the axe-<br />

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jjse:-'<br />

Fig- 399-<br />

WJ^<br />

stamens of the lily-plant on the sarcophagus from Palaikastro'^. The<br />

whole design (fig. 399) makes it clear that double axes of metal were<br />

imbedded <strong>in</strong> the wooden columns of 'M<strong>in</strong>oan' shr<strong>in</strong>esl<br />

^ A. Riegl Stilfragen Berl<strong>in</strong> 1893 p. 52 ff., O. Montelius Z>/« (T7/^rif« Ktdturperioden<br />

im Orient tend <strong>in</strong> Europa Stockholm 1903 i. 78 f. fig. 303, cp. W. H. Goodyear The<br />

Grammar of the Lotus L,onAon 1891 p. 103.<br />

^ Supra p. 524.<br />

3 M. Meurer 'Form und Herkunft der mykenischen Siiule ' <strong>in</strong> i\\& Jahrb. d. kais.<br />

deutsch. arch. Inst. 1914 xxix. 14 ff. fig. 6 f. th<strong>in</strong>ks that the white objects affixed to the<br />

columns are not axes at all, but knobs for hang<strong>in</strong>gs, and compares the white-glazed and<br />

C. II. 34

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