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Note the association of the feminine with the carrying of “vessels” and “baskets,” as well as
the botanical associations of femininity with grain, saffron (yellow), and fruit. Such associa-
tions could have been originally derived from Minoan and Theran sources.
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- Although questions about the mask’s authenticity have been raised, archaeologist
Oliver Dickinson has argued persuasively that the mask was neither faked nor planted
(Dickinson [2006], The Aegean from Bronze Age to Iron Age: continuity and change
between the twelfth and eighth centuries b.c. Routledge). Dickinson pointed out that sev-
eral gold burial masks were found at the site. In a telegram Schleimann sent to a colleague
at the time of the discovery, he stated that the mask of the “dead man with the round
face” reminded Schleimann of Agamemnon more than the more elongated face with the
mustache usually cited. Indeed, Schliemann chose the round- faced mask as the frontis-
piece for the chapter in his book, Mycenae, in which he identifies the burials as those of
Agamemnon and his followers. See Dickinson, O. (2005), The “Face of Agamemnon.”
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in The Iliad when he describes Hera as “fashioning now/ In her pierced ears the pendants, triple
pearled,/ Hued like the mulberry, With grace agleam.” The Iliad of Homer (1911), trans. Arthur
Gardner Lewis. The Baker and Taylor Company. - Although the terracotta statues in the shrines are all female, the “Goddesses- with-
upraised- arms” probably represent only a fraction of the total pantheon of Postpalatial Minoan
deities. It is also possible that deities of the shrines reflect the folk religion of the native Minoan
population. - See Gesell, G. C. (2004), The popularizing of the Minoan household goddess, in
A. Chapin, ed., Charis: Essays in Honor of Sara A. Immerwahr. American School of Classical
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expansion in antiquity in the eastern Mediterranean area. Bulletin on Narcotics 19:3. - The Odyssey, Book IV; Harvard Classics 1909– 1914, trans. S. H. Butcher and A. Lang.
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