Zeus : a study in ancient religion - Warburg Institute

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Attic style now in the British Museum (pi. xviii)'. The mountain-
side with a stepped altar in the foreground stands for the precinct
at Delphoi*, which is still largely Dionysiac—witness the ivy-leaves
that strew the ground, the company of Satyrs and Maenads, and
the presence of Dionysos himself. But the principal deity is now
Apollon, who is seated in the centre with short chiton and em-
broidered hinidtion, a bay-wreath round his hair, a bay-branch in
Fig- 173-
his left hand, a tortoise-shell lyre in his right. He glances over
his shoulder at Dionysos, who occupies a subordinate seat on the
extreme left, similarly clad in a short chiton with an embroidered
hiindtion, wearing fillet and ivy-wreath, and holding a thyrsos in one
hand,ar/y/