The total cost of the wet room, not including labour, was around Â£2,200, and the project, carried out by local builders, took just two. weeks. âThe whole process was completely. pain-free,â says Kathryn.
The doves are interpreted as an emblem of a celestial goddess and are a symbol of her heavenly power, contradictory to a snake, which has been regarded as an underworld aspect of the goddess and a symbol of her earthly power.
The symbol of the dove spread out from Crete to the mainland of Greece and to Cyprus and to the other Aegean places. In the Mycenaean iconography the doves appear as early as in the second half of the 16th century BCE. But the unique golden ornaments of a naked goddess and a tripartite shrine, surrounded by the doves from Mycenae, are interpreted as foreign imports.