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of the thunderbolt 785
however, to be found on Attic black-figured vases belonging to the
close of s. vi B.C. A kj/t'x from Vulci signed by the potter Phrynos
shows the birth of Athena from the head of Zeus^: the thunderbolt
W^
Fig. 746. Fig. 748. Fig. 747.
in the god's right hand has a heart-shaped pistil, probably meant
for an arrow-head, starting from the centre of its lotos-flower. And
a similar kj/zx from Vulci signed by the potter Xenokles represents
the three sons of Kronos standing side by side between two winged
Fig. 749-
horses (fig. 749)-. Poseidon, the central figure, carries a large
trident ; Zeus, a thunderbolt with hooked prongs ; Hades, an un-
certain object, perhaps a horn I
^ Brii. Miis. Cat. Vases ii. 223 no. B 424, figured infra § 9 (h) ii [6).
^ Brit. j\/its. Cat. Vases ii. 223 f. no. B 425, Lenormant—de Witte El. mon. cer. \.
43 ff. pi. 24 A ( = my fig. 749), Overbeck Gr. Kuiistmyth. Zeus p. 28 ff. (S), C. Scherer
in Roscher Lex. Myth. i. 1797 ff.
' I have not reproduced the red-figured stdinnos of ' strong' style from Chiusi usually
compared with this vase (T. Panofka in the Arch. Zeit. 1851 ix. 305 ff. pi. 27, C. von
Paucker ih. p. 376 ff., T. Panofka in the AOh. d. berl. Akad, iSj^ Phil. -hist. Classe
c. II. 50