Zeus : a study in ancient religion - Warburg Institute

53^ The double axe in relation to horns
(fig. 406 by. To the left of the right-hand pair of horns was a female
votary, whose type (a half-sitting posture) and technique (punctures
and incisions with white gypsum filling) were alike primitive. To the
right of these horns were two goddesses. One of them, except for the
fact that she had a plant design painted on her back, closely re-
sembled the goddess already described. The other rose from a higher
cylindrical base. She wore necklaces, armlets, and signets on her
Fig. 406.
wrists. She raised both hands, one palm outwards, the other in profile,
and each with a dark band drawn across it. Her breast was
painted with a pair of wings-; and her body ended in a pattern
perhaps meant to recall the spread tail of a bird. On her head rested
a dove (fig. 406 cy. It is clear that the little sanctuary thus furnished
1 Id. ib.
^ So at least I have ventured to suggest (J. E. Harrison in the Transactions of the
Third International Congressfor the History of Religions Oxford 1908 ii. 156 n. i).
3 G. Maraghiannis loc. cit.