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'that which is drawn along,' later mert 'bride' or inert stat, from a portable granary (?))>
'Les larmes d'Isis et la crue' (p. 31 f.), 'Rites des semailles' (p. 32 ff.), 'Fecondation de
la terre par des statues' (p. 35 ff.), with an appendix 'Sur le culte particulier de la gerbe
en Egypte' (p. 54 ff.: corn-maidens in ancient and modern Egypt, after Miss W. S.
Elackman 'Some occurrences of the Corn-aruseh in ancient Egyptian tomb paintings' in
the Journal of Egyptian Archaeology 1922 viii. 235 ff.). Now Frazer of. cit. ii. 89 6
expressly compares the corn-stalks that represent the resurrection of Osiris on Egyptian
monuments with the reaped ear of corn exhibited to the worshippers at Eleusis. But he
nowhere makes the mistake of supposing, as Foucart did, that the latter custom was
derived from the former. They were analogous rites, that is all.

(8) Thus the way is left clear for the conclusion enunciated years ago by Dr L. R'
Farnell. All the evidence, he says, goes to prove that among the sacred things
reverentially displayed at Eleusis there was a corn-token. ' And,' he continues, ' it may
have also served as a token of man's birth and re-birth, not under the strain of symbolic
interpretation, but in accordance with the naive and primitive belief in the unity of mans
life with the vegetative world' (Farnell Cults of Gk. States iii. 184). N.B. the occasional
use of KaXd/iri in the sense of 'old, withered body' (Od. 14. 214 f., Aristot. rhet. 3- l°'
1410 b 13 ff., Anth. Pal. 11. 36. 5 f. (Philippos), Cougny Anth. Pal. Append. 6. ib°'
3 R. = oracl. ap. Polyain. 6. 53, Loukian. Alex. 5).

In this connexion special interest attaches to two finds from the west of the classic'
area and to one literary record in the east.

An Apulian amphora, formerly in the Barone collection, then in the Museo Camp-
and now at Petrograd (Stephani Vasensamml. St. Petersburg i. 241 ff. no. 428), has
following designs : A (i) Zeus, with Hermes as charioteer, in a car drawn by four )w ^
and Dionysos (wrongly restored) in a car drawn by two panthers or lynxes, ellteIc011.
Gigantomachy, led by a Fury between them, (ii) Within a her&ion, surrounded oj ^
ventional figures bearing garlands and gifts, are seen five stalks of bearded W ^
B (i) A young warrior is wreathed by Nike between two of his companions. ^ j
domestic scene of man, woman, and maid—perhaps the homecoming of the sue

warrior. The vase has been published and discussed by G. Minervini Monument' an '

ineditiposseduti da Raffaele Barone Napoli 1852 i. 99 ff. (mystical interpretation) P s-

and 22, 1—5 ( = my pi. xxx), F. Lenormant in the Gaz. Arch. 1870 v. 31 ff- with 2

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(follows Minervini), id. in Daremberg—Saglio Diet. Ant. i. 1066 fig. 1308 ('^ffruits
des epis a Eleusis'!), Farnell Cults of Gk. States iii. 216 f. pi. iii, /' Cthe firS teCl,er
or oblations consecrated to the local Apollo or Demeter or Persephone'), R- Page05 ;cii
Unteritalische Grabdenkmdler Strassburg 1912 pp. ix fig., 100 (E. Fehrle cp. A. ^ ^ ^e
Mutter Erde Leipzig—Berlin 1905 p. 48 f.), P. Wolters 'Die goldenen Ahre", ;c) (the
Festschrift filr fames Loeb Miinchen 1930 pp. 123—125 figs. 13 and 14 (photograp 1 ^
old Attic custom of sowing grain on the fresh-made grave, cp. Demetrios of P«a _ teria
Cic. de legg. 2. 63 nam et Athenis iam ille mos a Cecrope, ut aiunt, permansit, °^tur) ut
humandi: quam cum proximi iniecerant, obductaque terra erat, frugibus obseie ^s
sinus et gremium quasi matris mortuo tribueretur, solum autem frugibus exP'at^" ],er6'°"
redderetur). The point to notice is that, in the lower register of the obverse, of
instead of containing the customary representation of the dead (H. B. Walteis