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§ 8. Bronzes from Palaikastro and Praisos
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 11 October 2013
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There are fragments of eight to ten tripods from Palaikastro now in the Candia Museum. Some of these were found outside and in front of the temple precincts. The excavator mentions fourteen, but he may not have noticed that certain fragments belong to the same tripod. Part of a tripod-leg in the British Museum catalogued (1907, 1–19–233) as being from Palaikastro and published BSA XXXV, 96, 97, fig. 10, pl. 23, 5, is illustrated in Bosanquet's notes, but I have not been able to determine the exact provenience of individual tripods at Palaikastro. Compare the position of tripods found in front of the sanctuary of Polis in Ithaca, BSA XXXV, 51, and in front of the Idaean Cave, Halbherr and Orsi, Museo Italiano, II, p. 5. It certainly comes from the same workshop as Candia Museum No. 86 from the Idaean Cave and carries a similar figurine.
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page 51 note 1 See my classification BSA XXXV, 92, 93 and the definition, p. 74 top. Fig. 45, no. 1, has a simple section and is classified accordingly. But it has no strut, and this makes its date uncertain. One from the Idaean Cave, without museum number, has the double-T-section.
page 53 note 1 Hampe, Sagenbilder, pls. 36–9, p. 56. Close dating of his Ri is impossible till it can be seen. Perseus' profile is vague on the close-up (pl. 38) but suspiciously clear on the far-away view (pl. 36)—the handiwork of the improver. A similar fragment in the Louvre is No. 928 of the Jacobsthal Collection of Photographs at Marburg. Other contacts of these vases with Crete are (1) the sacred tree (R1, pl. 38); (2) the octopus on the woman's dress (R3, pl. 37), cf. an octopus on a tripodhandle on the Axos mitra (pl. 28); (3) the hair (see above, p. 53). This Perseus scene, supported by a bestial but non-equine bronze in the Louvre, is insufficient evidence for a primitive horse-goddess. See Besig, Gorgo and Gorgoneion, p. 75, a useful book, but deifications are generally regrettable.
page 53 note 2 Cf. the Hathor curls on an Egyptianizing gold plaque in a closed tomb at Veii containing proto-Corinthian vases, well-dated from the end of the second and the third quarter of the seventh century, including pointed aryballoi with scales. (Mengarelli, Studi Etrusci, I, pls. XXVII, XXVIII, p. 159, 160).
page 54 note 1 Buschor, Griechische Vasenmalerei, p. 44; Neugebauer, Vasen in Berlin, pl. 10, F307. On the strength of this vase, an ivory disc found at Lapithos (Gjerstad Swedish Cyprus Expedition I, pl. 21, 4 (Tomb 417) must be Cretan.
page 54 note 2 BSA XXXIX, pl. 25; it is also figured, Kinch, Vroulia, fig. 20 a, b, p. 46, and mentioned by Dr. Kunze, p. 122, note 176.
page 55 note 1 CM 6651. E. Hall, Vrokastro, p. 112, fig. 63; found in room 26 in a geometric context: cf. fig. 60, c.
page 55 note 2 Troy, two examples, Schmidt, Schliemann's Sammlung 6403, 6404. The pin from Thermi, Lamb, Excavations at Thermi in Lesbos, pl. XXV, 30, 13, quoted by Bittel, Prähistorische Forschung in Kleinasien, p. 50 is not knot-headed.
page 55 note 3 I have only seen two (1) Gjerstad, Swedish Cyprus Expedition, Nitovikla Tomb 1, 30, of Late Middle Cycladic (M.C. Ill): (2) Ohnefalsch-Richter, Cyprus, the Bible, and Homer, pl. CXLVI, 3, β, n. from Phoinikiais.
page 55 note 4 (2) From Praisos No. 34, below. The prehistoric remains from Praisos are so scanty that the pin must be referred to the geometric epoch: (3) from Psychro (Bosanquet, BSA VI, p. 112, fig. 45) in the Candia Museum: (5, 6) from Perachora (pi. 76, 1 and 3 also on pi. 136, 5, by the kindness of Mr. T. J. Dunbabin): (7, 8) from Olympia (Ol. IV, pi. XXV, No. 492, with a broad head, and inventory 2658, p. 67): (9) from Tegea (Dugas, BCH 1921, p. 376, fig. 39, 108)