Fig. 168.
CYPRIAN VASE WITH LOTUS, BOSSES, LOTUS
BUDS, AND DIFFERENT SWASTIKAS.
Cesnola Collection, Metropolitan Museum
of Art, New York City. Goodyear,
“Grammar of the Lotus,” pl. 48, fig. 15.
Swastikas with four arms crossing at other than right angles, the ends ogee and to the left.—Figs. [158], [159], and [160] show Swastikas with four arms crossing at other than right angles, many of them ogee, but turned to the left. [Fig. 161] is a representation of a wooden button or clasp, much resembling the later gold brooch of Sweden, classified by Montelius (p. 867), covered with plates of gold, from Sepulcher IV, Mycenæ (Schliemann, Mycenæ, fig. 385, p. 259). The ornament in its center is one of the ogee Swastikas with four arms (tetraskelion) curved to the left. It shows a dot in each of the four angles of the cross similar to the Suavastika of Max Müller and the Croix swasticale of Zmigrodzki, which Burnouf attributed to the four nails which fastened the cross Arani (the female principle), while the Pramantha (the male), produced, by rotation, the holy fire from the sacred cross. An almost exact reproduction of this Swastika will be found on the shield of the Pima Indians of New Mexico ([fig. 258]).
Fig. 169.
DETAIL OF EARLY BŒOTIAN VASE.
Figure of horse, solar diagram,
Artemis with geese, and Swastikas
(normal and meander, right and left).
Goodyear, “Grammar of the
Lotus,” pl. 61, fig. 12.
Dr. Schliemann reports that the Swastika in its spiral form is represented innumerable times in the sculptured ceiling of the Thalamos in the treasury at Orchomenos. (See figs. [21] and [25].)
He also reports[180] that Swastikas (turned both ways) may be seen in the Royal Museum at Berlin incised on a balustrade relief of the hall which surrounded the temple of Athene at Pergamos. [Fig. 162] represents a spiral Swastika with four arms crossing at right angles, the ends all turned to the left and each one forming a spiral.
Waring[181] figures and describes a Grecian oinochoë from Camirus, Rhodes, dating, as he says, from 700 to 500 B. C., on which is a band of decoration similar to [fig. 130]. It is about 10 inches high, of cream color, with ornamentation of dark brown. Two ibexes follow each other with an ogee spiral Swastika between the forelegs of one.
Meander pattern, with ends bent to right and left.—Figs. [163], [164], and [165] show the Swastika in meander pattern. [Fig. 163] shows two Swastikas, the arms of both bent to the right, one six, the other nine times. The Swastika shown in [fig. 164] is bent to the right eight times. That shown in [fig. 165] bends to the left eight times.