Cook, Arthur Bernard, 1868-1952 · Cambridge [Eng.] The University Press · leaf 839
e central group,and separated from one another by the rapidly retreating figure ofHephaistos, are Dionysos and Hermes. The former wears an ivy-wreath and holds a kdntharos. The latter, in festal attire, bearsa cadiiceiis of unusual form and announces his presence with thenaive remark— 1 am Hermes… … ^ So G. Loeschcke in the Arch. Zeit. 1876 xxxiv. 109, R. Schneider Die Geburt derAthena Wien 1880 p. g, and with a query Reinach R^p. Phases i. 197. The mutilatedword VMEU is probably an appellative of Poseidon; Furtwangler loc. cit. says am ehesten wol Eu/)]u/x^5[a7j wenn man ein schiefgestelltes…
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