Gardner, Percy, 1846-1937 · New York, The Macmillan company · leaf 279
VASES: ARTISTIC TRADITION 257 XV Another example may be found in a kylix on which is repre- sented Oedipus seated before a sphinx, who is perched on the top of a pillar. That it was the tale of Oedipus which was in … the mind of the vase-painter is proved by the inscriptions (Fig. 90) } But, apart from them, we might almost have seen in the picture an ordinary gravestone surmounted by the figure of a sphinx, with a relative of the dead seated near. The sphinx, 1 Hartwig, Meisterschalen, PI. 73. On the vase is…
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