Zeus : a study in ancient religion . Fig. 912. loc. cit. suggests o1\xoi (?) ; but cp. Souid. olapoi • yvvaiK^s). (B) The cofiinis lowered into the grave by four men, one of whom removes the pall. Mournersstand to right and left; and there is a tree in the background. Beneath bothscenes is a race of four chariots, the goal appearing between two of them. Theneck of the vase continues the same sequence of scenes : (A) In the centrerises an omphaloid tomb painted white. Within it flit four souls represented assmall winged eidola ; below them is a snake. Round the edge of the tomb runsan insc
Zeus : a study in ancient religion . Fig. 912. loc. cit. suggests o1\xoi (?) ; but cp. Souid. olapoi • yvvaiK^s). (B) The cofiinis lowered into the grave by four men, one of whom removes the pall. Mournersstand to right and left; and there is a tree in the background. Beneath bothscenes is a race of four chariots, the goal appearing between two of them. Theneck of the vase continues the same sequence of scenes : (A) In the centrerises an omphaloid tomb painted white. Within it flit four souls represented assmall winged eidola ; below them is a snake. Round the edge of the tomb runsan inscription, which P. Pervanoglu took to be ANAPO^A OlOrAV-KA-OIENOAAE KEIMAI C. II. 67 I058 Appendix H S. A. Kumanudis {Ann. d. Inst. 1864 xxxvi. 197 n. 2) transcribed the latter partof it as follows :. © y> ft \ ^ ^ V @ Fig. 913-A. Conzes illustration is based on a copy by A. Postolakkas. The line wasconvincingly read by C. Keil: dv8p6s dno((voLo puKos kukov ivOdbe Kflfxai—acuriously cynical hexameter. The use of puKos to denote a corpse is defendedby Anth. Pal. 7. 380. 6 f. (Krinagoras) Ketrai hk rfjdf rwXiyrjTreXes puKos I EvvLKiBao,a-rjTreTai S vno (tttoSw, cp. zd. 5. 20. 3 (Rufinus) acopa paKcodcs and StephanusTkes. Gr. Ling. vi. 2334 D f On the tomb is placed a vase resembling in shapethat which is here described ; and mourners to right and left make lamentation.(B) A procession of four mourners, two of whom bear offerings (?), approachesthe grave. Among the patterns surrounding the neck of the vase will be seen awavy line clearly derived from the old sepulchral snake. The paintings of thisimportant vase have, unfortunately, suffered much since its discovery: nothingnow remains of the inscriptions, the winged souls, or the snake, and little is leftof the tomb. Final
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