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Zeus : a study in ancient religion - Warburg Institute

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The other long side of the sarcophagus (pi. xxvii, U) depicts two<br />

scenes, dist<strong>in</strong>guished from each other, not so much by the variable<br />

background (white—blue—white), as by the fact that the human<br />

figures at the po<strong>in</strong>t of junction are stand<strong>in</strong>g back to back. On the<br />

left we see another episode from the ritual of the double axe^ A red-<br />

sk<strong>in</strong>ned man, wear<strong>in</strong>g his hair short with a fore-lock'^, and clad <strong>in</strong> a<br />

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