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(fig. 158^ and &)\ A propos of this resemblance between Tripto-
lemos and Dionysos we must here notice a red-figured kylix from
Vulci, now at Berlin (fig. 159)2. Dionysos is again seen sitting on

Fig. 159.

a winged and wheeled seat. As on the Lenormant and Beugnot
vases, he is wreathed, wears a chiton and a kimdtioft, and carries a
kdntharos. Only, in place of a vine he grasps a double axe, the
'ox-slaughtering servitor of king Dionysos,' as Simonides termed it3.

1 Gerhard op. cit. i pi. 41, Lenormant—de Witte op. cit. iii pis. 48 f., OverLeck op. cit.
Atlas pi. 15, 4, Reinach op. cit. ii. 32, 4—6. For Strube's view see supra p. 214 n. x.

2 Furtwangler Vasensamml. Berlin ii. 548 no. 2273, Gerhard op. cit. i pi. 57, if.,
Lenormant—de Witte op. cit. i pi. 38, Reinach op. cit. ii. 38, 8 f. The inscription

according to Furtwangler, reads KE0I • TOSKA • OS, t'.e. perhaps Kr)<pi[a]io$ Ka[X]6s,

not—as had been previously supposed—H^atcrros /caXos. The god with a double axe on
a mule escorted by a Satyr and two Maenads in Laborde Vases Lamberg i pi. 43
( = Inghirami Vas. fitt. iii pi. 263) is probably Hephaistos rather than Dionysos, cp.
Tischbein Hamilton Vases iv pi. 38 ( = Inghirami op. cit. iii pi. 265, Lenormant—de Witte
op. cit. i pi. 43).

3 Simonid. frag. 172 Bergk4 ap. Athen. 84 eft. For further evidence connecting
Dionysos with the double axe see infra ch. ii § 3 (c) i (o). •

Furtwangler loc. cit. takes this axe-bearing figure to be Triptolemos, not Dionysos,—
a most improbable view, though accepted by Reinach op. cit. ii. 38.

Triptolemos and Dionysos dispensing their several bounties of corn and wine from a
two-wheeled throne suggest comparison with a spring custom observed at Kostt in
northern Thrace. ' A man, called the x^Xcja"ros or KovKTjpbs, dressed in sheep or goat