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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.).
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.).