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Because Echelos carries off a bride Iasile in a four-horse chariot, on a relief found at a shrine near Phaleron, most writers have thought that this relief fixes the site of the Panathenaic Hippodrome. In fact it does the exact opposite. This bride is not coming home, she is going away: Echelos lives somewhere else, Phaleron is not his territory. It belongs to the family of an otherwise unknown nymph Iasile, and a host of gods and goddesses engaged in child-care, but not to Echelos. He is a stranger making a treaty and successfully buying favours. Note that the chariot proceeds steadily uphill, so away from the sea; Hermes is guiding it, so the gods approve. He has his foot on a small hill: we shall consider later where that may be. It is a gay relief with a reminiscence of the Parthenon horses. On the other side a lady, Artemis(?), receives a bearded man, a river-god and three nymphs—the wedding reception, solemnizing the treaty.
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1 Athens NM no. 1783: Svoronos, pl. 28. Does Hades come from Enna or the Roman youth from Sabina? Why alter Ἔχελος into Ἔχε-λᾶος He had to do with horses, not with people.
2 Two reliefs and an inscription were found in the same locality:
Deities listed in (b) implied in (c): Hestia, Kephissos, Pythian Apollo, Leto, Artemis Loxia, Eileithyia, Acheloös, Kallirhoe, Nymphs of birth at Geraistos.
Professor Andrewes kindly examined relief 4546 with me. He considers the Corpus reading of Ἀλεξο uncertain, so we need not burden ourselves with a second dedicator.
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