The Swastika, the Earliest Known Symbol, and Its Migration: With Observations on the Migration of Certain Industries in Prehistoric TimesWilson, Thomas
Religion
The Swastika, the Earliest Known Symbol, and Its Migration: With Observations on the Migration of Certain Industries in Prehistoric Times
Wilson, Thomas
Industries, Primitive; Swastikas; Symbolism
133. Fragment of Greek vase with figures of sacred animals and
Swastikas associated with Greek fret. Naukratis, ancient
Egypt. Petrie, _Sixth Mem. Egypt Expl. Fund_, pt. 2, pl.
VI, fig. 1 836
134. Fragment of Greek vase with figures of animals, two
meander Swastikas, and Greek fret. Naukratis, ancient
Egypt. Petrie, _Sixth Mem. Egypt Expl. Fund_, pt. 2, pl.
VIII, fig. 1; and Goodyear, _Grammar_, etc., pl. XXX,
fig. 10 836
135. Greek vase with deer and meander and figure-8 Swastikas.
Naukratis, ancient Egypt. _Sixth Mem. Egypt Expl. Fund_,
pl. V, fig. 1 837
136. Greek tapestry. Coptos, Egypt. First and second centuries
A. D. Forrer, _Achmim-Panopolis_, pl. IX, fig. 3 837
137. Torus of column with Swastikas. Roman ruins, Algeria.
Delamare. Waring, _Ceramic Art_, etc., pl. XLIII, fig. 2 838
138. Bronze ingots captured at Coomassee during Ashantee war.
Swastika on each 838
139. Variations of the Greek fret. The two continuous lines
crossing each other give the appearance of Swastikas 839
140. Greek geometric vase with goose and Swastika (panel).
Smyrna. Leyden Museum. Conze, _Anfänge_;, etc., Vienna,
1870; and Goodyear, _Grammar_, etc., pl. LVI, fig. 4 839
141. Greek vase, geometric ornament, Athens. Horses, Swastika
(panels). Dennis, _Etruria_, vol. I, p. cxiii 839
142. Greek vase with Swastikas (panels). Conze, _Anfänge_,
etc., vol. 4; and Goodyear, _Grammar_, etc., pl. LX,
fig. 13 839
143. Detail of Archaic Greek vase with solar goose and
Swastika (panel). British Museum. Waring, _Ceramic Art_,
etc., pl. XLI, fig. 15 840
144. Cyprian pottery plaque with Swastika (panel). Met. Mus.
of Art, N. Y. Cesnola, _Cyprus, Its Ancient Cities, Tombs,
and Temples_, pl. XLVII, fig. 40 840
145. Detail from Cyprian vase, Swastikas in triangles.
Goodyear, _Grammar_, etc., pl. I, fig. 11 840
146. Detail of Attic vase with antelope (?) and Swastika.
British Museum. Böhlau, _Jahrbuch_, 1885, p. 50; and
Goodyear, _Grammar_, etc., pl. XXXVII, fig. 9 840
147. Cyprian vase with Swastikas. Cesnola, _Cyprus_, etc.,
appendix by Murray, p. 404, fig. 15 841
148. Terra-cotta figurine with Swastikas (panels). Cesnola,
_Cyprus_, p. 300. Ohnefalsch-Richter, _Bull. Soc.
d'Anthrop._, Paris, 1888, p. 681, fig. 11 841
149. Terra-cotta vase, Swastika, and figure of horse 841
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