Walters, Henry Beauchamp: Catalogue of the bronzes, Greek, Roman, and Etruscan in the Department of Greek and Roman Antiquities, British Museum (London, 1899)

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CA.TALOGUE OF BRONZES.

the top of which rays shoot upwards, aegis, long girt chiton, spear in r. hand,
and shield on ]. arm ; these figures are inscribed respectively TINlH, Tinia, and
l"ENEi)LA, Menerva. On either side of Zeus stands a winged female deity,
each having short hair turned up over a sphendont which has studs along
the front and a dentated upper edge, necklace with bulla, armlets, long sleeved
chiton, and himation. The one on the 1., who is inscribed Oflivp, Thanr,
draws the fillet tight round Zeus’ head, while the other, who is inscribed,
AHMVA0 3, Ethaiisva,* places one hand on his head and the other on his
]. shoulder (cf. the two Eileithyiae in similar scenes on black-figured vases,
such as B 218 and B 244 in Brit. Mus.).

Diam. 7 in. From Palestrina. Castellani, 1873. Formerly in Tyszkiewicz Coll. (?).
Mon. dell' Inst. ix. pl. 56, fig. 3, and Ann. 1873, P- I29i Gerhard-Korte, Etr. Spiegel, v. pl. 6,
p. 12 ; Schneider, Geburt d. Athene, p. 15, no. 5 ; Roscher, Lexikon, i. p. 1390, s.v. Ethausva ;
Fabretti, Suppl. iii. no. 394 ; Corssen, Sprache der Etrusker, i. pp. 372, 1007. Round the edge,
a pattern of volutes. Handle broken off.

618. Birth of the Three Caheiri. On the 1. is Hermes looking to r., beard-
less, with winged petasos, chlamys, endromides, and caduceus in r. hand ; on
his 1. knee he holds one of the infant Cabeiri, who wears a bulla round his
neck, and holds up 1. hand. He is inscribed: )!/waVT, Turms; and the infant:
*MAlonil/VUl MiaflFM, Maris Isminthians. In the centre is Athene to the front,
looking to r. ; she has long hair, earrings, necklace, bracelets, crested helmet,
aegis with Gorgoneion (rough hair, protruding tongue), long chiton with apoptygma
under-girt, and r. hand resting on spear. With 1. hand she holds the 1. arm of
an infant Cabeiros emerging from a crater at her feet; he has a necklace with
bulla, and his r. hand is placed on the shoulder of the vase. The crater has
voluted handles, a wreath round the neck, and fluted body ; Athene is inscribed :
£haM3W/l, Menrfa; the infant: AMAHasVH MiaAl/M, Maris Husrnana. Next on
the r., partly hidden by Athene, is a female deity to the front, looking at Athene ;
her hair is gathered in a top-knot, and she wears earrings and himation
with border of scroll-pattern, drawn as a veil over the back of her head ; her
hand is raised so as to cover her mouth. She is inscribed: PI/taVT, Turan,
and probably represents Venus Libitina. Next, partly hidden by the last,
is a youth with curly hair and chlamys, holding a spear in r. hand ; he is
inscribed : 1/lAa/lJ, Laran (perhaps = Mars). On the extreme r. is a female
deity to L, holding the third infant Cabeiros 011 her 1. arm, while with r. hand she
draws forward her drapery from behind ; she has thick curly hair, round which
a fillet is wound three times, earrings, necklace of pendants, himation over 1.
arm held between her knees, and shoes. She is inscribed : ll/IVTVT/11/Vl/l, Ama-
tutuni (perhaps the Amathusian Aphrodite, as opposed to Ttiran') ; the infant:
MIj/IE) Mld/1M/l, Maris Halna. In the background is a band of ornamental

* Strabo (v. 226) speaks of a temple of Eileithyia near Caere ; it may be that the goddess indicated
is this Ethausva.