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The supports of the Sky personified 431
determine. It is, however, permissible to think that their columns
on the citadel of Edessa were conceived as sky-supports. For at
Baitokaike (fig. 337)1 and elsewhere throughout the Syrian area
F'g- 338- Fig. 339.
Azizos and Monimos are found as the regular supporters of the
solar eagle carved on the soffits of sacred lintels2.
Finally, Etruscan mirrors show the starry roof actually resting
on the heads of the Dioskouroi3. Fhe great majority of these
1 E. G. Rey in the Archives des Missions scientifiqnes et litteraires Paris 1866 Deuxieme
serie iii. 338 with woodcut, R. Dussaud in the Rev. Arch. 1903 i. 131 fig. 3 (reproduced
in my fig. 337) = zV/. Notes de mythologie syrienne Paris 1903 p. 11 fig. 3. Dussaud thinks
that each of the dpheboi was holding in both hands a torch (probably added in paint), and
that one of these torches was raised, the other lowered. But?
2 R. Dussaud in the Rev. Arch. 1903 i. 131 ff.=id. Notes de mythologie syrienne
Paris 1903 p. 11 f. Supra i. 565.
3 Supra i. 769 f. figs. 561, 562, 563, 565. I have [ib. p. 767 n. 1) compared the
Dioscuric arch with the structure of the Japanese torii. Prof. Takeo Wada of Kyoto
University kindly informs me that at Yamagata there is a torii, the two side-posts of
determine. It is, however, permissible to think that their columns
on the citadel of Edessa were conceived as sky-supports. For at
Baitokaike (fig. 337)1 and elsewhere throughout the Syrian area
F'g- 338- Fig. 339.
Azizos and Monimos are found as the regular supporters of the
solar eagle carved on the soffits of sacred lintels2.
Finally, Etruscan mirrors show the starry roof actually resting
on the heads of the Dioskouroi3. Fhe great majority of these
1 E. G. Rey in the Archives des Missions scientifiqnes et litteraires Paris 1866 Deuxieme
serie iii. 338 with woodcut, R. Dussaud in the Rev. Arch. 1903 i. 131 fig. 3 (reproduced
in my fig. 337) = zV/. Notes de mythologie syrienne Paris 1903 p. 11 fig. 3. Dussaud thinks
that each of the dpheboi was holding in both hands a torch (probably added in paint), and
that one of these torches was raised, the other lowered. But?
2 R. Dussaud in the Rev. Arch. 1903 i. 131 ff.=id. Notes de mythologie syrienne
Paris 1903 p. 11 f. Supra i. 565.
3 Supra i. 769 f. figs. 561, 562, 563, 565. I have [ib. p. 767 n. 1) compared the
Dioscuric arch with the structure of the Japanese torii. Prof. Takeo Wada of Kyoto
University kindly informs me that at Yamagata there is a torii, the two side-posts of