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ladies are depicted standing in a car at a boar-hunt ^ — perhaps 

 " in at the death " — certainly makes for considerable qualifica- 

 tion, and, if succeeded by similar finds, for complete reversal of 

 the non-sporting theory. 



On Circe's Island, Odysseus strikes down " a tall antlered 

 stag " as " he was coming down from his pasture in the wood- 

 land to the river, for verily the might of the Sun was sore upon 

 him." He bears the " huge beast " across his neck to the black 

 ship of his companions, who soon devour it. This is the only 

 mention of venison in Homer {Od., X. 158 ff.). 



^ G. Rodenwaldt in Tiryns (Athens, 1912), II. 96 ff. pis. 12 f. 



