#the recurring images and the ones that got forgotten

rubynye reblogged

For your perusal and enjoyment; Minoan sealstones from Knossos, seeming to show an Artemis or an Atalanta sort of figure.

Or, well, some completely different lady archer with nice cans motif we don't understand because we can't read Linear A.

This is from an early 1900s copy of Arthur Evans' books on his excavations at Knossos. He's a sucker for incredibly obvious fakes like the Boston snake goddess, and really reaches to see scenes from later Greek myth in seal-stones- but he shows a lot of material that seems to have fallen out of circulation in later books that just seem to summarise each other.

#excellent meta #minoan #minoans #minoan art #sealstones #the recurring images and the ones that got forgotten #note to self