Minoan Genius on a LH III Pictorial Sherd from Phylakopi, Melos? Some Remarks on Religious and Ceremonial Scenes on Mycenaean Pictorial Pottery
Mario Benzi Pasiphae. Rivista di filologia e antichità egee 3 (2009) [2010]: 9-26.
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The fragment discussed in this article was found in the earliest excavations at the Cycladic site of Phylakopi and is now preserved in the National Archaeological Museum of Athens (NM 11418). It was given only a summary description by Edgar in his discussion of the pottery from the site and was later discussed by Sakellarakis in his survey of the Mycenaean Pictorial Pottery in the National Museum, but until now it has attracted little or no attention by scholars. Sakellarakis assigns the fragment to a large deep bowl krater of FS 282. He describes the partly preserved figure as that of a monster “preserving its breast and forelegs”. The hatched and cross-hatched patterns behind the figure are described by Sakellarakis as a “thin curved wing” and as “part of the body” respectively. In Mycenaean Pictorial pottery, however, the wings of winged creatures, such as sphinxes and griffins, are usually larger and raised and are rendered in very different fashions. The upright pose, the sturdy body, and the far leg stepping forward in the characteristic walking pose call to mind the Egyptian goddess Taweret and her Aegean derivative, the so-called “Minoan Genius”.
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