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The Owl of Athena

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 December 2013

E. M. Douglas
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In the Archaeological Seminar at Upsala is a vase, presented by Dr. Nachmanson, the design on which is illustrated in Fig. 1. I forbear to discuss it in any other respect than that of the design, as Prof. Sam Wide, to whose kindness I owe the permission to use the illustration, reserves to himself the right of dealing with the vase fully in a subsequent publication.

It is an amphora of good b.-f. style to be dated about 550 B.C., and the scene is framed in a border which displays along the top the maeander pattern and at the sides a double row of dots. In the centre of the scene is an altar towards which the priest advances from the left leading the ram he is about to sacrifice. He is a youthful male figure, draped only in his himation, and crowned with a wreath of olive. Beside the altar on the r. rises a slender column surmounted by a statue, the upper part of which disappears from our ken beyond the borders of the field; evidently the statue was not of paramount importance in the scene depicted.

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The Journal of Hellenic Studies , Volume 32 , November 1912 , pp. 174 - 178
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Copyright © The Society for the Promotion of Hellenic Studies 1912

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