Cook, Arthur Bernard, 1868-1952 · Cambridge, [Eng.] : University Press · leaf 192
Two aryballoi from ApoUonla in Thrace, representingscenes of mystic incense-gathering (?). See page 124 n. 3. and the Soul-Ladder 125 In support of that conjecture I may point out, not only thatPindar in a passage already cited speaks of the celestial track as adread stair or MadderV but also that… … Fig. 77. little bronze ladders (fig. 77)—a magical means of getting to heaven—have been found in Roman graves-. They recall the Egyptian amulet of the ladder,as follows: L about which E. A. Wallis Budge writes In tombs of the Ancient and Middle Empires small objects of wood andother substances in…
Zeus (Greek deity) · Cults · Sun worship · Classical antiquities · Folk literature
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