Cook, Arthur Bernard, 1868-1952 · Cambridge, [Eng.] : University Press · leaf 960
lack glaze, the idea of the potter being to producea cheap copy of red-figured ware3. Sir Cecil Smith4 maintainedthat such cups were made for some special official or religiousoccasion. But, unless there is some further indication of solemn orsacred usage, we should be ill-advised to assume it. It… … Fig. 582. attaches to a broken kylix (fig. S&3)5 found on the Akropolis atAthens in the excavations of 1886 and referable to a date precedingthe Persian sack of 480 B.C. Owl and olive-sprays are paintedinside, brick-red on a biack ground. But this time the potter,a young man offering as in duty…
Zeus (Greek deity) · Cults · Sun worship · Classical antiquities · Folk literature
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