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XI] Dike and Eurydike 521
similar design the figure is inscribed AIKH. What has this Dike
with the drawn sword, this Vengeance incarnate, this denizen of
Hades, to do with that Dike we already know, the fixed order of
the world, the Way of Nature ? The fragment of another vase-
painting 1 may help us to understand. It is reproduced in Fig. 146,
and is obviously a portion of a design similar to that in Fig. 144,
though of earlier and much finer workmanship.
To the right is the palace of Hades and in it is seated
Persephone. To her left we may safely restore Plouton. To her
right stands ' Hekata '
with
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two blazing torches. Close to the
palace, as usual, is the figure of Orpheus as Thracian musician or
priest. Above him to the left a door, just ajar, leading evidently
to the upper air. Close to the door, with her hand upon it, is a
winged figure. Above the right wing are letters read variously
AIKA and AIKA. Dr Dieterich 2 would read AIKA, and sees in
the winged figure Dike warding the gates of Hades a reminiscence
1 Jalta, Coll. Euvo, Monumenti Antichi d. Accademia dei Lincei, vol. xvi.
Tav. in.
2 Archiv f. Religionswiss. xi. 1908, p. 159.