Zeus : a study in ancient religion - Warburg Institute

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paintings (fig. 139)^ in which there is no question of structural
exigency, as portraying such tripods, but also to sundry bases- and
votive replicas^ as furnishing ad-
ditional proof of their existence. An .^--oOv
architect's specification, found in or "
near Athens and dated by M. Hoi-
leaux before 350 B.C., actually gives
a detailed description of one :
{infra p. 199 n. 2), a relief found in the theatre
at Athens, which shows a tripod with a central
support in the form of a Doric pillar (L. von
Sybel Katalog der Scidpturen zu Atheii Marburg
1 88 1 p. 2 8 1 no. 3912), and a relief drawn
by F. Adler on the Akropolis, which has a tri-
lled with a central stem broad at the base and
rapidly tapering upwards (not in L. von Sybel
op. cit.).
1 F. Wieseler Ueber den delphischen Dreiftiss
(extr. from the Abh. d. gott. Gesellsch. d. Wiss.
Phil. -hist. Classe xv) Gottingen iSjr p. 90 n.
adduces : (i) A red-figured amphora from Sorrento
in the British Museum, signed by the vase-painter
Polygnotos ; this has for its main subject two
women attaching fillets to the horns of two bulls,
which stand before two large columnar tripods
{Brit. Miis. Cat. Vases iii. 209 f. no. E 284,
Gerhard Auserl. Vasenb. iv. 10 pi. 243, W. Klein
Die griechischc7t Vasen tnit Meistersignaturen'^
Wien 1887 p. 199,
1, Hoppin A'