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A Minoan Bronze Statuette in the British Museum

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 December 2013

F. N. Pryce
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The bronze statuette reproduced for the first time on Pl I. and Fig. 1 has for many years past formed part of the national collections. The earliest date to which it has so far been traced is 1885, when it was included in the category of ‘unclassified or suspect bronzes.’ Beyond 1885 it enjoys at present the happiness of having no history; but as in that year it bore no mark of registration, the inference may be drawn that it entered the Museum with the ‘old collections,’ perhaps a hundred or a hundred and fifty years ago. It remained in retirement until the early years of the present century, when attention was called to its affinities with the newly discovered art of prehistoric Crete; and the publication, in 1912, of the Tylissos praying figure (Fig. 2) supplied a parallel sufficiently close to establish beyond doubt that the British Museum bronze was a work of the same school and period.

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Research Article
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The Journal of Hellenic Studies , Volume 41 , Issue 1 , 1921 , pp. 86 - 90
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Copyright © The Society for the Promotion of Hellenic Studies 1921

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References

1 Ἀρχ. Ἐφ., 1912, Pl. XVII., p. 223; Hall, , Aegean Archaeology, p. 68Google Scholar, Fig. 14.

2 On similar defects in other Minoan bronzes, see Hall, , Aegean Archaeology, p. 67. 86Google Scholar

3 Gournia, Pl. XL, B 21.

4 To be published by Sir Arthur Evans in the forthcoming Palace of Minos. I am indebted to Sir A. Evans for the reference.

5 Gournia, l.c. Compare abo such bronzes as those figured on Tsountas, and Manatt, , The Mycenaean Age, p. 161Google Scholar, Figs. 55, 56, where the base-plate is omitted and there is a plug under each separate foot.

6 The footgear is best illustrated in Mosso, , Palaces of Crete, p. 227Google Scholar, Fig. 107.

7 B.S.A., Vol. IX. p. 363 Pl. IX.

8 Jahrb., xxx., 1915, Pl. I., p. 65.

9 E. g., on a seal impression from Triada, Hagia, Mon. Ant., xiii., p. 43, Fig. 40Google Scholar; and on a gem from Mycenae, , Furtwaengler, , Ant. Gemmen, iii. p. 44Google Scholar, Fig. 20.

10 Reproduced from Bossert, Alt Kreta, Pl. CCLVII.

11 Hall, Aegean Archaeology, Pl. XIX.; vide also Evans, , B.S.A. ix. p. 83Google Scholar.

12 J.H.S. xxii,. p. 78, Fig. 5 (ritual procession with the double axe); cf. also ibid. Fig. 6 and Pl. VI. 7; Mon. Ant. xiii. p. 41, Fig. 35.

13 Hall, op. cit., Pl XIX.

14 Aegina, Heiligtum d. Aphaia, p. 372.

15 A.J.A. 1915, p. 248.

16 Mosso, , Palaces of Crete, Fig. 26, p. 69Google Scholar; Bossert, Alt-Kreta, Pl. CXLVII.