Water-carrying and the mysteries 397
(7) Water-carrying in connexion with the mysteries.
Water-carrying in a holed vessel reappears in connexion with the
Mysteries. Polygnotos in his famous fresco of the Underworld
(painted shortly after 458 B.C.1) represented certain women bearing
Fig. 261.
*ater i
the othg en P'tchers:
one of them was in the bloom of youth,
er advanced in years; and an inscription common to them
* So
Sw»ndler ^ R.einach T'xte Peint. Anc. i. 86 n. 1, 90 n. o followed by Miss M. H.
ncimt Painting New Haven: Yale University Press 1929 p. 202 n. 20.
(7) Water-carrying in connexion with the mysteries.
Water-carrying in a holed vessel reappears in connexion with the
Mysteries. Polygnotos in his famous fresco of the Underworld
(painted shortly after 458 B.C.1) represented certain women bearing
Fig. 261.
*ater i
the othg en P'tchers:
one of them was in the bloom of youth,
er advanced in years; and an inscription common to them
* So
Sw»ndler ^ R.einach T'xte Peint. Anc. i. 86 n. 1, 90 n. o followed by Miss M. H.
ncimt Painting New Haven: Yale University Press 1929 p. 202 n. 20.