By Erich Küster
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Daß eine derartige Übersicht niemals eine vollständige, erschöpfende sein kann, ergibt sich naturgemäß aus dem enormen Umfang der so zerstreuten und vielfach noch unedierten Erzeugnisse antiker Kultur und aus dem durch die fortgesetzten Ausgrabungen mit jedem Tage neu anschwellenden Material. — Wie wir oben sahen, legen die plastischen Schlangen in den Händen oder um den Leib der kretischen Idole Zeugnis ab von dem ältesten in griechischem Gebiete nachweisbaren Schlangenkult; und man sollte nach anderen Analogien erwarten, daß sich die kretische Kleinkunst, besonders die Keramik, dieses Schlangenmotivs bemächtigen würde.
Diese archaischen freiplastischen Schlangen sind zumeist in vorzüglicher Stilisierung gebildet und haben oft sehr fein gravierte Innenzeichnung. Hier tritt 1 S. Arch. Anz. 1894, 116, altgriech. Fibel ans Thisbe. Ζ. B. Wide, Arch. Jahrb. XY 1900, 53 Fig. 113; Arch. Anz. 1895, 225 u. sonst. 8 Ζ. B. Perdrizet Fouüles de Delphes 1909, 74. 76. 88. 91; Annual of Brit. School at Athens XY 1908/9, Tf. IX14 u. 18; Fnrtwängler, Bronzen τ. 55 no. 906 ff. 918; Babelon Cat. Bronces Bibl. Nation. 1895 mo. 1446/7; De Bidder Cat.
Eigentliche Schlangen finden sich auf mykenischen Vasen,, wie bereits hervorgehoben wurde, nur in stilisierter Form,. Fig. 19 Fig. 20 und zwar in der erwähnten älteren Darstellungsform der beiderseits mit Punkten eingefaßten einfachen oder doppelten Schlangenlinie (s. Fig. 19): Waldstein Argive Heraeum Π 1905· Tf. 51, 12 (Zeit des mattfarb. myk. Stiles); Waldstein Arg. Eer. II 1905 Tf. 52 no. 5 aus Argos, zweiter myken. Stil 32 Ε. Küster (s. Fig. 20), auf dem Ton feiner Überzug, auf welchem braunrot gemalt ist.