This Goddess remains quite mysterious, she comes from a time before classical Greece and there are no records of her original name. The snakes in her fists are sacred Adders, symbolic of dominion over the underworld. Serpent cults flourished throughout old Europe, where some symbolic serpent art has been dated to 6000 BC.
Cast in Brass , height of 20cm, such figures were inspired by goddess statues excavated from the temple complex of Knossos over a century ago. Since that time these types of figures have been made in Crete to sell to travellers and visitors, this one is unusually tall making her even more striking, she probably dates from the latter half of the last century.
