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Cook, Arthur B.
Zeus: a study in ancient religion (Band 3,1): Zeus god of the dark sky (earthquake, clouds, wind, dew, rain, meteorits): Text and notes — Cambridge, 1940

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Zeus as an ox; Zeus Olbios 607

have been found in pieces near Vari and now in the collection of
Professor D. M. Robinson at Baltimore (pi. xlv)1. This interesting
vase, which has been attributed to ' The Painter of the Naples
Hephaistos Krater2' and may be dated c. 430 B.C., shows Bouzyges
successfully driving his yoke of oxen in the presence of two
spectators. One of these, wearing stephdne and Doric peplos, is
characterised as Athena by the spear in her right hand and the
°hve-tree at her side. But she holds in her left hand six3 ears of
corn and turns to encourage the ploughman. So does a bald-
eaded white-bearded man, who stands in the background, wearing
a himdtion and leaning on his staff. He has been called Kekrops4
0r Boutes5; but neither appellation is probable and we must be
content to leave him anonymous. It is of more importance to note
that the whole vase-painting was designed for an Eleusinian, not
an Athenian, myth. Compare it with the Berlin skyphos illustrated
uP7'a i. 224 fig. 165 and you will realise that Athena and Bouzyges
^re simply adaptations from Demeter with her corn-ears and
nptolemos with his plough. Or set it beside the Palermo krater
uPra i. 218 pi. xviii and you perceive that Athena and the elderly
rtla^e spectator have been substituted for Demeter and Keleos, or
P°ssibly for Persephone and Hippothon. In short, the Baltimore
J^ter drops more than one broad hint that behind the Athenian
°ughrnan at the base of the Akropolis lurks a half-obliterated
hold"6' ^S ^eus'n'an predecessor on the Rarian Plain. Athena
we corn-ears at a plough-scene is quite unconvincing unless
typSee that she has stept into the shoes of Demeter and that the
aPpropriate to the earlier discovery of the thrice-ploughed

^aPles fj ^" ^°')'nson ' Bouzyges and the First Plough on a Krater by the Painter of the
ePhaistos' in the Am. fourn. Arch. 1931 xxxv. 152—160 with figs. 1 (obverse)

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lent to rnTb^' 1

am indebted to Professor Robinson for the large-scale photographs,

0 41"1. \\ ■ f ^r Seltman, from which my pi. xlv was made. Height of vase

2 J- D6Rht of main scenes o-i75m.
478. ' eaz'ey Attische Vascnmaler des rotfigurigeu Stils Tubingen 1925 pp. 415 f.,

Vest consi^0 °" l°C' "'' P' 155 Says: <In her left hand she holds the Promised
ave vanishe(jt''n^ °^ e'^'lt ^**fJ ears °^ corn> tne stems of which, once in white paint,

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the th' graffito, of which the first two words are scratched on the reverse,

kEkpOp|a 'he °bverse of the vase- reads AIOKUE[*] HAA[AIE]V[?]||

"PorlSot w. Cp- Steph. Byz. s.v. 'AXoi AllwvlSes- ...6 5' Al&veiis (sc. Srj/u.os) ttjs

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j"egestion that° l°C' "'' P' 1 ?6 1: ' Professor Elderkin makes the interesting

rp Scene. ^ lne °'d man is Butes whose name would make him logically present in
aUSl 26 l thlnl<s funher that the paintings of the Butadae in the Erechtheum
' »J may have inspired the scene.'
 
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