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)

i 82 The Delphic Omphalos

of honour in the theatre: the sculptured subject was practically
identical with that of the relief from Sparta, except that here the
carefully spaced lettering leads J. N. Svoronos to conjecture the
former existence of another figure, perhaps Leto, to the left of
Apollon and Artemis (fig. 12 5)1. A third relief, referable to the

Fig. 125.

opening years of the fourth century B.C., was found at Phaleron
between the parallel Long Walls in a precinct dedicated to Kephisos

1 A. Wilhelm in the Jahresh. d. oest. arch. Inst. 1898 i Beiblatt p. 43, F. Studniczka
in Hermes 1902 xxxvii. 267, G. Karo in Daremberg—Saglio Diet. Ant. iv. 199 n. 16,
and especially J. N. Svoronos ' ^-qtyiaixa ''Xttikov avetcBoTov nai o£ d/uL<pa\ol tCov Hvd'ucv '
in the Journ. Intern. d'Areh. Num. 1911 xiii. 301 — 316 with 13 figs., of which fig. 1
shows our relief, id. Ath. Nalionahmis. pi. 211, 1 = my fig. 125, W. H. Roscher Omphalos
Leipzig 1913 p. 84ft". pi. 9, 5. Height o"55m, breadth o-37m.