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The God with the Winnowing-fan

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 December 2013

Extract

Professor Rose is perfectly right in holding that there is no allusion to any Boeotian cult or ceremony in the pyxis figured on p. 21 of JHS LXIX. Vases of the fabric to which this pyxis belongs have for the last fifty years been regarded as Boeotian, and it seemed not unreasonable to search for the meaning of the representations on them in Boeotian life, and in particular in the customs and cults of the district inwhich three of them are reputed to have been found. However, shortly after Boeotian Haloa had been published, I saw in the museum at Corinth a number of sherds of this fabric which had been excavated in the Potters' Quarter there. They are to be published in a forthcoming volume of Corinth by Mrs. Stilwell, who tells me she is convinced that they are all Corinthian, and indeed the place of finding puts that beyond doubt. So all arguments based on the supposed Boeotian origin of the pyxis and its companion vases fall to the ground.

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Copyright © The Society for the Promotion of Hellenic Studies 1952

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References

1 AM XXVI 1901, 143 ff.; British Museum Cat. Vases III, pl. 21Google Scholar; Pfuhl, MuZ 715Google Scholar; Payne, , CV Oxford II, p. 65 no. 32Google Scholar; Lane, , Greek Pottery, p. 57Google Scholar, Plate 95(a).