Cook, Arthur Bernard, 1868-1952 · Cambridge [Eng.] The University Press · leaf 824
the approaching birthis heralded by the appearance of a small owl which has the temerityto perch on the very sceptre of Zeus. A similar scene is shown on a marble slab found in 1900 atHaidar-pacha near Kadi-Keiii and now preserved in the Museumat Constantinople (fig. 479)^. The relief, surmounted… … Fig. 479. his head, her left on his left shoulder. Another Eileithyia standingbefore him apparently clasps both his hands with hers. The groupis flanked by two further figures. A female personage on a some-what smaller scale holds out her hands on the left: another female, ^ A black-figured amphora…
Zeus (Greek deity) · Cults · Sun worship · Classical antiquities · Folk literature
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