SEYFFARTH — PLANETARY CONFIG. ON CYPRIAN ANTiq^ 397 



found at Idalium and elsewhere, not only in Cyprus, but in other 

 ■Greek islands, and in the mainland of Greece and Italy. The 

 bronze bowl may therefore be takeu to be contemporary with this 

 form of decoration in pottery." 



I do not know whether this explanation of the bowl will satisfy 

 every reader ; for each one will ask the questions : How is it that 

 the presumed Isis bears the crescent upon her head? What has 

 ihe tripod of Apollo to do with the Cyprian dancers? How is it 



that this same tripod bears the horns of a cow and the cipher 

 III III III (9)? What signify the six virgins with joined hands? 

 Por what purpose are the latter intertwined with lotus-flowers? 

 As seven figures turn towards the right hand, what is the reason 

 that three other figures walk in the opposite direction? What is 

 the meaning of the serpent, the pine, the solar disk, the flute, the 

 lyre, the tambourine in the hands of some women? — None of 



