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himdtion, uses a globe as a footstool (cp. supra i. 4 7 ff-)- His right leg is bare and is being

bandaged by the same winged goddess (wings
broken away), on whose shoulder he rests his
hand. This relief too perhaps formed part of
a sarcophagus. C. L. Visconti loc. cit. p. 94
describes the work as mediocre and dates it
about the end of s. ii a.d.

A less considerable fragment of the same
design, which has been worked into a patch-
work sarcophagus now in the Loggia Scoperta
of the Vatican, shows the veiled head and
powerful body of Zeus sitting on a rock to the
right and leaning hard on his right hand
(Visconti Mus. Pie-CUm. iv. 269 ff. pi. 37
('le fleuve Ismenus'), A. L. Millin Calerie
Mythologiquc Paris 1811 ii. 20f. no. 429 pi.
109 ('le fleuve Ismenius'), J. G. Zoega in the
Zeitschrift fur Geschichte und Auslcgung der
alten Kunst Herausg. von F. G. Welcker 1818
i. 402 f. (first critical account: 'Okeanos'),
F. Matz in the Bull. d. Inst. 1870 p. 70 f. (first
identification as 'Giove nell' atto di sgravarsi
da Bacco bambino'), H. Heydemann op. cit.
pp. 10 n. 28, 12, 17).

H. Heydemann op. cit. p. 15 draws atten-
tion to a lost relief, of which a cast has been
for over a century at Bonn. F. G. Welcker
Das akademische Kunstmuseum zu Bonn2
Bonn 1844 P- IJ5 no. 353 describes it as
follows: ' Eileithyia, die Lende des Zeus vom
Dionysos entbindend. Nur da's eine Bein des
Zeus bis an das Knie ist erhalten und ein F'liigel
des Adlers, der iiber ihm schwebte, vielleicht
angstvoll ihn umflatterte [? the wing of a winged
Fig. 29. Eileithyia. a.b.c], und von dem Kinde nur

das Handchen angclegt an dem Knie der
Eileithvia. Hermes, als Kinderwarter der Gotter und insbesondre des Dionysos bekannt,
steht seines Berufes gewartig daneben und sieht aufmerksam und wie verlegen zu.'
R. Kekule Das akademische Kunstmuseum zu Bonn Bonn 1872 p. 113 no. 452 adds: 'Das
Bruchstiick, welches mit dem Relief bei Miiller—Wieseler 11, 34, 392 zu vergleichen ist, ist
in dem jetzigen Zustand mindestens in der Figur des Hermes schwerlich durchaus antik.'

This second series of reliefs is perhaps derived, though not without modification, from
the painting by Ktesilochos (supra p. 82 n. 3). The rebirth of the infant was a subject
admirably suited to a child's sarcophagus and, doubtless, often repeated (cp. supra ii.
309, 417)-

5 An Etruscan mirror, of unknown provenance, at Naples (A. Sogliano in the Guida
del Mus- Napoli p. 358 no. 1525), long cited under the misleading name of the 1 Patera
Borgia,' represents the actual birth-scene in early fourth-century style (A. (H. L.) Heeren
Expositio fragments tabulae marmoreae.. .Musei Borgiant Velitris Romae 1786 p. 9 n. (c),
L Lanzi Saggio di lingua Etrusca e di altre antiche d' Italia per servire alia storia
di popoli, delle lingue, e delle belle arti Roma 1789 ii. 195—198, Visconti Mus. Pie-CUm.
iv. 362 ff. pi. B 1, 1 and 2, A. L. Millin Galerie Mythologique Paris 1811 i. 5of. no. 222
pi 71, F. Inghirami Monumenti etruschi 0 di etrusco nome Poligrafia Fiesolana 1824 ii.
2y7L-297 pi. 16 (good), id. Storia della Toscana Poligrafia Fiesolana 1841 ii. 519, 522,
524, 529 pi. 39, 1. B. Quaranta in the Real Museo Borbonico Napoli 1839 xii pi. 57 with
text pp. 1—5, Gerhard Etr. Spiegel iii. 84—87 pi. 82 ( = my fig. 3o), id. fiber die