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Left to right. Γάες
If this is a genitive of Gaia, as Blegen suggested, it is surprising. Ge and its forms are normal in Attic epigraphy, while Gaia is poetic. Votive dump. Γάες ... Γάες
If this is a genitive of Gaia, as Blegen suggested, it is surprising. Ge and its forms are normal in Attic epigraphy, while Gaia is poetic. |
Two non-joining wall fragments, a with start of return, unglazed on inside. Max. dim. a) 0.104, b) 0.024. LIMC IV, 1988, p. 929, no. 5, s.v. Erechtheus.
Athena and Hephaistos. Fragment a preserves Athena ... Ca. 470-460 B.C ... Brommer's cautious suggestion that the figure on b is Gaia is untenable because in the 5th century, Gaia emerges from the earth and the figure on fragment b is too high in the composition (for the iconography of Gaia see LIMC IV, 1988, pp. 171--177, s.v. Ge [M. B. Moore], esp. pp. 173--176 for the 5th-century representations). |
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