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at Delphoi
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Attic style now in the British Museum (pi. xviii)1. The mountain-
side with a stepped altar in the foreground stands for the precinct
at Delphoi2, which is still largely Dionysiac—witness the ivy-leaves
that strew the ground, the company of Satyrs and Maenads, and
the presence of Dionysos himself. But the principal deity is now
Apollon, who is seated in the centre with short chiton and em-
broidered Jiimdtion, a bay-wreath round his hair a bay-branch in
Fig- 173-
his left hand, a tortoise-shell lyre in his right. He glances over
his shoulder at Dionysos, who occupies a subordinate seat on the
extreme left, similarly clad in a short chiton with an embroidered
himdtion, wearing fillet and ivy-wreath, and holding a thyrsos in one
hand, a. rhy ton in the other. His former retainers seem bent on honour-
ing the new arrival. One of the Satyrs turns towards him, fingering
a lyre. The other, carrying an oinochoe, offers him an ivy-patterned
kdnthqros. And both Maenads present him with flat baskets of
fruit. It is clear that Apollon is in process of displacing Dionysos.
1 Brit. Mus. Cat. Vases iv. 50 f. no. F 77, [P. F. Hugues, dit d'Hancarville] An-
tiqlute's itrusques, grecques et romaines Naples 1767 ii pi. 68, Inghirami Vas. fitt. ii. 137 f.
pi. 196, Lenormant—de Witte El. mon. dr. ii. 222 ff. pi. 74 A, E. Gerhard in the Arch.
Zeit. 1865 xxiii. 102 ff. pi. 202, 2 = Reinach Rip. Vases i. 397, 6, L. Stephani in the
Compte-rendu St. Pit. 1861 p. 59 n. 2, Overbeck Gr. Ktmstmyth. Apollon pp. 326
no- 53> 33°- PI- xviii is from a photograph of the vase (height 15J inches) in its present
condition. Previous illustrations are grossly inaccurate, Dionysos having been restored as
a nude goddess and many details wrongly repainted.
2 This may be disputed, since the omphalos does not appear (are we to think of it as
concealed beneath Apollon's drapery?). But the painting fills a gap in a series of
undoubtedly Delphic scenes, and Gerhard loc. cit. p. 102 was probably right in describing
it as ' Apollon zu Delphi.'
263
Attic style now in the British Museum (pi. xviii)1. The mountain-
side with a stepped altar in the foreground stands for the precinct
at Delphoi2, which is still largely Dionysiac—witness the ivy-leaves
that strew the ground, the company of Satyrs and Maenads, and
the presence of Dionysos himself. But the principal deity is now
Apollon, who is seated in the centre with short chiton and em-
broidered Jiimdtion, a bay-wreath round his hair a bay-branch in
Fig- 173-
his left hand, a tortoise-shell lyre in his right. He glances over
his shoulder at Dionysos, who occupies a subordinate seat on the
extreme left, similarly clad in a short chiton with an embroidered
himdtion, wearing fillet and ivy-wreath, and holding a thyrsos in one
hand, a. rhy ton in the other. His former retainers seem bent on honour-
ing the new arrival. One of the Satyrs turns towards him, fingering
a lyre. The other, carrying an oinochoe, offers him an ivy-patterned
kdnthqros. And both Maenads present him with flat baskets of
fruit. It is clear that Apollon is in process of displacing Dionysos.
1 Brit. Mus. Cat. Vases iv. 50 f. no. F 77, [P. F. Hugues, dit d'Hancarville] An-
tiqlute's itrusques, grecques et romaines Naples 1767 ii pi. 68, Inghirami Vas. fitt. ii. 137 f.
pi. 196, Lenormant—de Witte El. mon. dr. ii. 222 ff. pi. 74 A, E. Gerhard in the Arch.
Zeit. 1865 xxiii. 102 ff. pi. 202, 2 = Reinach Rip. Vases i. 397, 6, L. Stephani in the
Compte-rendu St. Pit. 1861 p. 59 n. 2, Overbeck Gr. Ktmstmyth. Apollon pp. 326
no- 53> 33°- PI- xviii is from a photograph of the vase (height 15J inches) in its present
condition. Previous illustrations are grossly inaccurate, Dionysos having been restored as
a nude goddess and many details wrongly repainted.
2 This may be disputed, since the omphalos does not appear (are we to think of it as
concealed beneath Apollon's drapery?). But the painting fills a gap in a series of
undoubtedly Delphic scenes, and Gerhard loc. cit. p. 102 was probably right in describing
it as ' Apollon zu Delphi.'