Cook, Arthur Bernard, 1868-1952 · Cambridge [Eng.] The University Press · leaf 892
Kev\. WhoNinnion was, we do not know. Svoronos tries to identify her with the hetaira Nannion(Athen. 567 e—F NdiZioi, 587 K l^awdpiov). But this—though Miss Harrison op. cit.^ The birth of Athena in art 723 p. 558 n. 2 agrees—is quite impossible, and very gratuitous. Nti/j/cov is the… … Fig. 531- The tablet is shaped like a temple-front with pediment and akroterion. The decorationof its pilasters and triglyph-frieze is peculiar and certainly symbolic: the pilasters suggestj3d/cxot; the frieze, cymbals (?) or basins (?), hardly phases of the moon. The main design has two registers.…
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