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)

The owl of Athena 799

ceive that the Corinthian potter has here synchronised in an
mstructive series three distinct stages in the evolution of Athena—
the ornithomorphic, the semi-ornithomorphic, and the anthropo-
morphic1. Another Corinthian aryballos, in the Karlsruhe collection

Fig- 599-

J?" '5 80 with fig. (= my fig. 599. Scale puts together four fragments of a Corinthian
\ 'l^Xn at ^er'm (Furtwangler Vasensamml. Berlin i. 76 no. 683, 78 no. 757, 89 f.
22 and 829 'Stil des Timonidas'), on which a man named \6npis stokes a potter's

oven T) r . ----- ---------. " / "--------------•"• -—~ " f—r "

(A '' e " stands a small ithyphallic figure of the sort known as fiaoKa.i'tov

Selck ^ f"*'' i"cert- fraS- 39 {Frag- com- Or. ii. 1185 Meineke) ap. Poll. 7. 108, cp.

er "need. i. jo, 5 ff.), here named Ao— (? cp. \daravpos, Xoi/caor^s, or the like),
in 'S Perc')ed a 'arge owl named (puKa (Roehl Inscr. Gr. ant. no. 20. 69, F. Blass

p , °'|itz Bechtel Gr. Dial.-Inschr. iii. 1. 66 no. 3119I1 69 <J><i/,a or cpwua, Inscr. Gr.
llla ' 1 no- 313 cp. Hesych. (puiKluv tpvis 7roii5s. The word, like <pihKi) 'a seal,'

e a derivative of the Indo-Europaean *p/iou- 'to blow, puff' : so 0<2u£ (Prellwitz
if Worterb. d. Gr. Spr? p. 498 f., Boisacq Diet. itym. de la Langite Gr. p. 1044 f.),
I onA ourP"JT"' (but see E. VVeekley An Etymological Dictionary of Modem English
' 1 °n.1021 P- 1166).

hv p ls '"^resting to see the same three stages combined on a red-figure kylix potted
Uton^a -°S' found at Todi' and now preserved in the Villa Giulia (G. Bendinelli in the
ii. 3Q " Lmc- '9i6 xxiv. 874—880 pis. 3 and 4 ( = my fig. 600), Hoppin Red-fig. Vases
text p °" b,S ^8*' CorP- vas- a"l- Villa Giulia iii I. c pi. 25, 2 and 3, pi. 26, 2 with
hero \ 13 ^ Giglioli), which represents another exploit of Herakles. While the

Athen CS S "1£ 'r'Pod ^'om Apollon, Iolaos holds in readiness his four-horsed chariot and
this tirr,at'VanCeS to '''s a'd at once as ow'> as human-headed bird, and as goddess. By
labelled' ^owever' tne human-headed bird has ceased to be conceived as an owl or
in ft„, , S SUcn anc' has become a commonplace soul-bird of the Seiren sort (G. Weicker

Ko*h«^*.^rt.iv.6,7fr.).