Note 718 — Chapter VI · THE MAKING OF A GODDESS.
Reading edition
Athens Nat. Mus. 484. Fig. 67 is reproduced from a photograph kindly sent me by Prof. Sam. Wide. For further particulars of this class of vases I must refer to Prof. Wide’s article ‘Eine lokale Gattung Boiotischer Gefässe,’ A. Mitt. XXVI. 1901, p. 143. Prof. Wide makes the interesting suggestion that the bird in the field is a bird-soul and points out that merely decorative ‘Füllfiguren’ do not occur on this class of vases. This interpretation seems to me highly probable, but till further evidence emerges, I hesitate to adopt it as certain.