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A. Furtwangler, in Antike Gemmen, III, pp. 39 ff. , holds that the monsters are throughout of lion form, though some- times with horse's or donkey's ears, and are conceived of variously as mighty hunters, which in their turn are overcome at times by a higher human or godlike creature, and as being in the possession of a wonderful fertilizing liquid, as e. G. On our bronze handle. For the various types cf. The examples brought together by A. Furtwangler, Antike Gemmen, I, pi. II, 30-35, and pi. ...VI, 16; and vol. Ill, p. 37, fig. 16. Whether these monsters have really any cult significance is rendered very doubtful by the additional evidence which has recently been supplied from Crete. The monsters depicted on Cretan gems are of an almost infinite variety and clearly suggest a somewhat fanciful modification of foreign types on the part of the Cretan artists, who probably cared more for the artistic possibilities of these creatures than for their religious significance (cf. D. G. Hogarth, The Zakro Sealings, Journal of Hellenic Studies, XXII, p.
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