ISTo. 27. — 1884.] tissamahakama akch^ology. 



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"motive" found its way to Magama, I annex the following 

 extract regarding it, by Mr, Gardner:— 



The group of cow-and-calf is of great antiquity and Oriental 

 origin. It is found on Egyptian and Assyrian monuments as 

 well as those of Persia, Lycia, and Phoenicia. It was undoubtedly 

 connected with the worship of the Asiatic goddess who passed 

 under many names in various parts of the Levant, Mylitta, 

 Anaitis, or Cybele. This deity was introduced in the course of 

 commerce into various Greek cities, and identified with local 

 divinities, usually Hera or Artemis. In Eubcea we find many 

 traces of the cultus of this Asiatic goddess ; and it was probably 

 in connecticn with her that the type of cow-and-calf was intro- 

 duced into Eubcea, and adopted by the people of Carystus as 

 their civic emblem. {Brit. Mus. Cat., Coins of Thessaly to 

 iEtolia, Introduction, p. xlvii.) 



Note 8. 



Since the description of the earthenware article No. 20 was 

 written, I have ascertained that its shape (with the exception of 

 the hole in the bo! torn) is almost exactly that of ihe peculiar 

 glass bottles or alabastrons made by the Phoenicians from a very 

 early date down to the first centuries after Christ. (Hist, of Art 

 in Phoenicia, Vol. IL, p. 326 & ff.) 



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