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The significance of Ianus' double face 381
Such cases cannot be sharply separated from others, in which the
double face is set on a pillar or post. Dionysos, himself a Thracian
Fig. 288.
god and a rebirth of Zeus, is sometimes represented on black-
figured lekythoi by a couple of bearded masks hung back to back
on a pillar (fig. 289)1—-an anticipation of the later double herm
an allusion to the counter-blasts, which on the Euripos the Greeks called Tra\ifj.j3opeas
(Theophr. de vent. 27 f.).
1 A. Frickenhaus Lenaenvasen {Winckelmannsfest-Progr. Berlin lxxii) Berlin 1912
Such cases cannot be sharply separated from others, in which the
double face is set on a pillar or post. Dionysos, himself a Thracian
Fig. 288.
god and a rebirth of Zeus, is sometimes represented on black-
figured lekythoi by a couple of bearded masks hung back to back
on a pillar (fig. 289)1—-an anticipation of the later double herm
an allusion to the counter-blasts, which on the Euripos the Greeks called Tra\ifj.j3opeas
(Theophr. de vent. 27 f.).
1 A. Frickenhaus Lenaenvasen {Winckelmannsfest-Progr. Berlin lxxii) Berlin 1912