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ARCHAISTIC ART.

The close connexion between the three scenes is clear. The
actual contest for a tripod in which the offerer had been engaged is
represented mythically by the struggle between Heracles and Apollo ;

Fig. 6i.

consecration of a trii'oo.

then follows the consecration of the victor's prize ; and the consecra-
tion of the torch shows that the tripod had been won in the a^uiv
Xa/xiraBovxos, or torch-race.1

1 O. Miiller, Arch. U. Kvnst, sec. 96, 20.