The Evolution of the Dragon

by Grafton Elliot Smith

[323] "Etude Historique et Chronologique sur les Vases Peints de l'Acropole de Suse," Mémoires de la Délégation en Perse, T. XIII, Rech. Archéol., 5^e série, 1912, Plate XLI, Fig. 3.

[324] "Canaan," p. 340, footnote.

[325] Alice Grenfell, Journal of Egyptian Archæology, Vol. II, 1915, p. 217: and Ancient Egypt, 1916, Part I, p. 23.

[326] S. Reinach, Revue Archéol., T. XXVI, 1895, p. 369.

[327] L. Siret, "Questions de Chronologie et d'Ethnographie Ibériques," 1913, p. 18, Fig. 3.

[328] Rivers, "History of Melanesian Society," Vol. II, p. 374; also Report Brit. Association, 1912, p. 599.

[329] M. Siret assigns the date of the appearance in Spain of the highly conventionalized angular form of octopus to the time between the fifteenth and the twelfth centuries b.c.; and he attributes it to Phœnician influence (p. 63).

[330] Cook, "Zeus," p. 346 et seq.

[331] This is well shown upon the Copan representations (Fig. 19) of the elephant-headed god—see Nature, November, 25, 1915, p. 340.

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