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Cook, Arthur B.
Zeus: a study in ancient religion (Band 2,1): Zeus god of the dark sky (thunder and lightning): Text and notes — Cambridge, 1925

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The Delphic Omphalos 18 i

A votive relief in fine yellowish marble, found at Sparta but
clearly Attic in style and probably carved in the last quarter of the
fifth century B.C., has Artemis with a prochoos filling the phidle of
Apollon : between them is seen a plain omphalos set on a plinth,
which supports two eagles with reverted heads (fig. 124)1. A very
similar relief, found at Athens, decorates a pre-Euclidean decree,
which confers upon a certain exegete—apparently one of those
known as PythocJirestoi—a throne in the Prytaneion and a seat

Fig. 124.

1 P. Wolters in the AtA. Mitth. 1887 xii. 378 ff. pi. 12, J. H. Middleton in the Joum.
Hell. Stud. 1888 ix. 295 f. (wrongly takes Artemis to be Nike), Overbeck Gr.Kunstmyth.
Apollon pp. 3645., 523, F. Studniczka in Hermes 1902 xxxvii. 267 fig. 6 (suggests that
the omphalos was originally painted with an agrenon), G. Karo in Dareriiberg—Saglio
Diet. Ant. iv. 199 fig. 5403, M. N. Tod and A. J. B. Wace A Catalogue of the Sparta
Museum Oxford 1906 p. 181 no". 468 fig. 59, cp. ib. p. 125 f. (where the relief is dated as
laie as s. iii B.C.), J. N. Svoronos in the Joum. Intern, cf'Arch. Num. 1911 xiii. 308 f.
fig. 2, W. H. Roscher Omphalos Leipzig 1913 p. 84 pi. 7, 4. Height 0-46™, breadth o"57m.
 
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