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Appendix H
(4) The Jars of Zeus Ktesios compared with the Jars of the Dioskouroi.
Gerhard further maintained that the jars of Zeus Ktesios were comparable with
those of the Dioskouroi at Sparta {e.g. Brit. Mus. Cat. Coins Peloponnesus p. 122
pi. 24, 6 a silver coin of 250—146 B.C. with rev. A A a lidded amphora with a snake
twining round it, between the caps of the Dioskouroi surmounted by stars ; in the
field a monogram and A. Ib. p. 125 pi. 24, 14 a copper of 146—32 B.C. with rev.
AAKEAAI M-NIHN two amphorae with snakes twining round' them; in the field
two monograms. Fig. 915 = Einzelaufnahmen no. 1311, £. Cahen in the Bull. Corr.
Fig- 9r5-
Hell. 1899 xxiii. 599 f. fig. 1 (Perrot—Chipiez Hist, de VArt\\\\. 442 f. fig. 216) an
archaic relief—'sculpture par silhouettage ou decoupage'—at Sparta (M. N. Tod
and A. J. B. Wace A Catalogue of the Sparta Museum Oxford 1906 p. 191 no. 575
fig. 65), which has in the gable an egg (that of Leda??) flanked by two snakes,
and in the space below the Dioskouroi facing each other with two lidded am-
phorae between them. Fig. 916—drawn from a photograph kindly given me
by Miss J. E. Harrison—shows the relief of Argenidas in the Museo Lapidario
at Verona (no. 555, height o-4om, breadth 072™. Montfaucon Antiquity Ex-
Appendix H
(4) The Jars of Zeus Ktesios compared with the Jars of the Dioskouroi.
Gerhard further maintained that the jars of Zeus Ktesios were comparable with
those of the Dioskouroi at Sparta {e.g. Brit. Mus. Cat. Coins Peloponnesus p. 122
pi. 24, 6 a silver coin of 250—146 B.C. with rev. A A a lidded amphora with a snake
twining round it, between the caps of the Dioskouroi surmounted by stars ; in the
field a monogram and A. Ib. p. 125 pi. 24, 14 a copper of 146—32 B.C. with rev.
AAKEAAI M-NIHN two amphorae with snakes twining round' them; in the field
two monograms. Fig. 915 = Einzelaufnahmen no. 1311, £. Cahen in the Bull. Corr.
Fig- 9r5-
Hell. 1899 xxiii. 599 f. fig. 1 (Perrot—Chipiez Hist, de VArt\\\\. 442 f. fig. 216) an
archaic relief—'sculpture par silhouettage ou decoupage'—at Sparta (M. N. Tod
and A. J. B. Wace A Catalogue of the Sparta Museum Oxford 1906 p. 191 no. 575
fig. 65), which has in the gable an egg (that of Leda??) flanked by two snakes,
and in the space below the Dioskouroi facing each other with two lidded am-
phorae between them. Fig. 916—drawn from a photograph kindly given me
by Miss J. E. Harrison—shows the relief of Argenidas in the Museo Lapidario
at Verona (no. 555, height o-4om, breadth 072™. Montfaucon Antiquity Ex-