The Swastika
Dispersion of the Swastika
an analysis of the motifs of both show them to have been essentially different
in their use, and so in their foundation and origin.Swastikas with four arms, crossing at right angles, with ends bent to the right. --- The author has called this the normal Swastika. He has been at some trouble to gather such Swastikas from Greek vases as was possible, and has divided them according to forms and peculiarities. The first group (figs. 140, 143, 147, 148, and 150) shows the normal Swastika with four arms, all bent at right angles and to the right. In the aforesaid division no distinction has been made between specimens from different parts of Greece and the islands of the Grecian Archipelago, and these, with such specimens as have been found in Smyrna, have for this purpose all been treated as Greek.
Swastikas with four arms crossing at right angles, ends bent to the left. ---
Figs.
141, 142, 144,
149, 151,
153, 154,
156, and 157
represent the normal Swastika with four arms, all bending at right angles,
but to the left. The vases on which they have been found are not described
as to color of form. It would be difficult to do so correctly; besides,
these descriptions are not important in our study of the Swastika. Fig.
155 represents a vase or pitcher (oinochoë, Greek --- oinoj,
wine, and cew, to pour) with painted
Swastika, ends turned to the left. It is in the Museum of St. Germain,
and is figured by M. De Mortillet in "Musée Préhistorique."
Fig. 156 represents a Cyprian vase from Ormidia, in the New York Museum.
It is described by Cesnola (1)
and by Perrot and Chipiez. (2)
Fig. 157 is taken from a fragment
or archaic Greek pottery found in Santorin (Ancient Thera), an island
in theFigs. 165, 166 and 167.
ENDNOTES:
1. "Cyprus its Ancient Cities, Tombs, and Temples," pl. 45, fig. 36. [Back]
2. "History of Art in Phenicia and Cyprus," II, p. 302, fig. 239. Back
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