Zeus : a study in ancient religion - Warburg Institute

264 Dionysos displaced by Apollon
The displacement is well nigh complete in the scene painted on
a late Attic hel\-/sra^er from Santa Agata de' Goti, now^ at Berlin
(fig. 173)'. Apollon, with a bordered hhndtion about his legs, a bay-
wreath and fillet on his head, and a bay-branch in his left hand, is
seated on the omphalos, itself garlanded with bay, whilst he dangles
a sprig of bay-leaves^ over a white deer at his sidel Before him
* Furtwangler Vasensamml. Berlin ii. 755 no. 2645, Lenormant— de Witte £.1. mon.
cer. ii. 139 ff. pi. 45, E. Gerhard in the Arch. Zcit. 1865 xxiii. 106 ff. pi. 203 = my fig. 173
(omits ground-line. Furtwangler loc. cit. says :
' Keine Terrainlinien, die Figuren nur
etvvas liber der Bodenlinie ')=:Reinach R^p. Vases i. 397, 7 f.
- Lenormant—de Witte op. cit. ii. 140: ' Cette circonstance rappelle la mastication
de feuilles de laurier que la Pythie mettait dans sa bouche avant de s'asseoir sur le trepied
fatidique.' See Soph. frag. 811 Nauck^, 897 Jebb, ap. schol. Hes. theog. 30 h64)vr)v
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