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Zeus Ktesios
1063
plained trans. D. Humphreys London 1725 Suppl. i. 103 f. pi. 27 no. 1 (inexact),
S. Maffei Museum Veronense Veronae 1749 p. 47 fig. 7 (bad) with p. 56,
A. Michaelis in the Arch. Zeit. 1871 xxix. 145 n. 37, Wien. Vorlegebl. iv pi. 9, 8 a,
H. Diitschke Antike Bildiverke in Oberitalien Leipzig 1880 iv. 237 no. 538,
A. Furtwangler in Roscher Lex. Myth. i. ii7of. fig., M. N. Tod—A. J. B. Wace
op', cit. p. 113 f. fig. 14, Reinach Rep. Reliefs iii. 436 no. 4, Harrison Themis
p. 304 f. fig. 84). On a base to the left are statues of the Dioskouroi wearing
plloi, chitdnes (?), and chlamydes (?). Before them is a rectangular altar decorated
with a boar in relief. Behind the altar a large pedestal carries two lidded
amphorae. On a step or low base to the right stands a man, clad in chiton
and himation (?), who holds a phidle (see H. Heydemann Mittheilungen aus
den Antikensammlungen in Ober- und Mittelitalien Halle 1879 p. 5) in his right
hand extended over the altar (?). Away to the right is seen a rocky coast forming
a bay, in which floats a vessel close to the shore. Near the vessel's stern are the
heads of two horned animals (oxen ?). On the further side of the bay two sets
Fig. 916.
of dokana (supra i. 766 ff.) are set up over a cavern. In the cavern two male
figures are reclining; a third raises his hand with a gesture of surprise or
greeting ; a fourth (?) and possibly a fifth (??) follow him into the cave. On the
rocky point to the left of the cave is a cock. And from the dokana a snake
makes its way towards the amphorae. The scene is accompanied by the in-
scriptions [ANAjKEIoN below the dokana and [AJPTENIAAI APISToTEN-
IAA AloIKoPolI j EYXAN along the lower edge of the slab in lettering
of s. ii B.C. (Corp. inscr. Gr. ii no. 1949). This relief, found in 1710 A.D. at
Ateste (Este) in the country of the Veneti, had perhaps been brought thither
from Venice (A. Boeckh in the Corp. inscr. Gr. loc. cit.). It records the gratitude
of one Argenidas, a Spartan (?), who having crossed the sea to Venetia(?) in
safety dedicates a thank-offering to the Dioskouroi. It is thus the monumental
counterpart of Catullus' famous poem on his yacht (Cat. 4). The foreground of
the relief shows Argenidas pouring a libation at the altar, which—like many
examples of Italian aesgrave (Brit. Mus. Cat. Coins Italy Index p. 406)—bears
the figure of a boar, and the heads of two sacrificed animals lying on the rocky
1063
plained trans. D. Humphreys London 1725 Suppl. i. 103 f. pi. 27 no. 1 (inexact),
S. Maffei Museum Veronense Veronae 1749 p. 47 fig. 7 (bad) with p. 56,
A. Michaelis in the Arch. Zeit. 1871 xxix. 145 n. 37, Wien. Vorlegebl. iv pi. 9, 8 a,
H. Diitschke Antike Bildiverke in Oberitalien Leipzig 1880 iv. 237 no. 538,
A. Furtwangler in Roscher Lex. Myth. i. ii7of. fig., M. N. Tod—A. J. B. Wace
op', cit. p. 113 f. fig. 14, Reinach Rep. Reliefs iii. 436 no. 4, Harrison Themis
p. 304 f. fig. 84). On a base to the left are statues of the Dioskouroi wearing
plloi, chitdnes (?), and chlamydes (?). Before them is a rectangular altar decorated
with a boar in relief. Behind the altar a large pedestal carries two lidded
amphorae. On a step or low base to the right stands a man, clad in chiton
and himation (?), who holds a phidle (see H. Heydemann Mittheilungen aus
den Antikensammlungen in Ober- und Mittelitalien Halle 1879 p. 5) in his right
hand extended over the altar (?). Away to the right is seen a rocky coast forming
a bay, in which floats a vessel close to the shore. Near the vessel's stern are the
heads of two horned animals (oxen ?). On the further side of the bay two sets
Fig. 916.
of dokana (supra i. 766 ff.) are set up over a cavern. In the cavern two male
figures are reclining; a third raises his hand with a gesture of surprise or
greeting ; a fourth (?) and possibly a fifth (??) follow him into the cave. On the
rocky point to the left of the cave is a cock. And from the dokana a snake
makes its way towards the amphorae. The scene is accompanied by the in-
scriptions [ANAjKEIoN below the dokana and [AJPTENIAAI APISToTEN-
IAA AloIKoPolI j EYXAN along the lower edge of the slab in lettering
of s. ii B.C. (Corp. inscr. Gr. ii no. 1949). This relief, found in 1710 A.D. at
Ateste (Este) in the country of the Veneti, had perhaps been brought thither
from Venice (A. Boeckh in the Corp. inscr. Gr. loc. cit.). It records the gratitude
of one Argenidas, a Spartan (?), who having crossed the sea to Venetia(?) in
safety dedicates a thank-offering to the Dioskouroi. It is thus the monumental
counterpart of Catullus' famous poem on his yacht (Cat. 4). The foreground of
the relief shows Argenidas pouring a libation at the altar, which—like many
examples of Italian aesgrave (Brit. Mus. Cat. Coins Italy Index p. 406)—bears
the figure of a boar, and the heads of two sacrificed animals lying on the rocky