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
165. Detail of Greek vase with ram, meander Swastika (left),
circles, dots, and crosses. Rhodian style. British
Museum. Salzmann, _Necropole de Camire_, LI; and
Goodyear, _Grammar_, etc., pl. XXVIII, fig. 7 846
166. Cyprian vase and details with birds and Swastikas.
Perrot & Chipiez, _Chypre_, etc., p. 702; Goodyear,
_Grammar_, etc., pl. XLVIII, figs. 6 and 12; Cesnola,
_Cyprus_, etc., appendix by Murray, pl. XLIV, fig. 34,
p. 412 847
167. Cyprian vase with lotus, bosses, buds, and sepals, and
different Swastikas. Cesnola Coll., Met. Mus. of Art.,
N. Y. Goodyear, _Grammar_, etc., pl. XLVIII, fig. 3 847
168. Cyprian vase with bosses, lotus buds, and different
Swastikas. Cesnola Coll., Met. Mus. of Art., N. Y.
Goodyear, _Grammar_, etc., pl. XLVIII, fig. 15 848
169. Detail of early Boeotian vase with horse, solar diagram,
Artemis with geese, and Swastikas (normal and meander,
right and left). Goodyear, _Grammar_, etc., pl. LXI, fig.
12 848
170. Detail of Rhodian vase with geese, circles, and dots,
Swastikas (right and left). British Museum. Waring,
_Ceramic Art_, etc., pl. XXVII, fig. 9 849
171. Detail of Rhodian vase with geese, lotus, circles, and
two Swastikas (right and left). Goodyear, _Grammar_,
etc., fig. 145, pl. 271 849
172. Greek vase of typical Rhodian style with ibex, geese,
lotus, six Swastikas (normal, meander, and ogee, all
left). Goodyear, _Grammar_, etc., pl. XXXVIII, p. 251 850
173. Detail of Greek vase with deer, solar diagrams, three
Swastikas (single, double, and meander, right). Melos.
Conze, _Meliosche Thongefässe_; Goodyear _Grammar_,
etc., pl. LX, fig. 8 851
174. Archaic Greek vase from Athens with five Swastikas, of
four styles, British Museum. Birch, _History of Ancient
Pottery_, quoted in Waring's _Ceramic Art_, etc., pl.
XLI, fig. 15; Dennis, _Etruria_, Vol. I, p. xci 851
175. Detail of Archaic Boeotian vase with two serpents,
crosses, eight Swastikas (normal, right, left, and
meander). Goodyear, _Grammar_, etc., pl. LX, fig. 9 852
176. Attic vase for perfume with Swastikas of two kinds and
_Croix swasticale_. Ohnefalsch-Richter, _Bull. Soc.
d'Anthrop._, Paris, 1888, p. 674, fig. 6 852
177. Detail of Cyprian vase, Swastika with palm tree, sacred
to Apollo. Citium, Cyprus. Ohnefalsch-Richter, _Bull.
Soc. d'Anthrop._, Paris, 1888, p. 673, fig. 3 852
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