Cook, Arthur B.: Zeus: a study in ancient religion (Band 1): Zeus god of the bright sky (Cambridge, 1914)

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Vase-illustrations of the sixth century differ in some respects
from those of the fifth, and again from those of the fourth. Sixth
century vases, of which some seven are known, show Triptolemos
as a bearded man holding a bunch of corn and sitting on a wheeled
seat. The seat is a more or less simple affair, and is arranged in
profile towards the right. Hence one wheel only is visible. This

Fig. 156.

has four spokes and sometimes rests on the ground, sometimes rises
into the air (fig. 156)1. Wings and snakes are wholly absent2.

1870, id. Supplement zu den Shidien iiber den Bilderkreis von Eleusis Leipzig 1872, and
above all by that master of detailed investigation Overbeck Gr. Kunstmyth. Demeter—
Kora pp. 530—589 Miinztaf. 9, Gemmentaf. 4, Atlas pis. 14—16.

1 Gerhard Auserl. Vasenb. i pi. 44, Lenormant—de Witte op. cit. iii pi. 67, Overbeck
op. cit. Atlas pi. 15, 1, Reinach Rep. Vases ii. 33, 7 f. This black-figured amphora, once
in the Fontana collection at Trieste, is now at Berlin.

2 A black-figured lekythos from Boiotia now at Athens (Collignon—Couve Cat. Vases
d'Atkenes p. 308 no. 967) shows Triptolemos with a sceptre in a car winged and drawn
by a snake. This vase is presumably a belated example of the black-figure technique
like the pseudo-archaic Panathenaic prize-jars, on which the columns of Athena are
sometimes surmounted by a small representation of Triptolemos holding corn-ears in