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63 Bonfante 1997, 180–183. For the Greek myth, see Gantz 1993, 378, and Rasmussen 2005,
30–39. On the Isis examples, see Tran Tam Tinh 1973. The subject became a favorite among
Baroque painters; Caravaggio’s painting in Naples, La carità romana (1606), includes it, and
by the time of Rubens it was not unusual.
64 Bagnasco Gianni 1999, 85–106.
65 For sigla see Bagnasco Gianni 1999, 86–92, and Bagnasco Gianni and de Grummond,
forthcoming.
66 Bagnasco Gianni 1999, 93–98, with bibliography. Scheid and Svembro 1994, 134–135.
In Texts and Textiles 2004, Edmunds, Jones and Nagy show how the Greeks and Romans
conceived of poetic composition and writing in terms of weaving.
67 Its interpretation is still controversial, Bagnasco Gianni 1999 101–103; Hodos 1998, 204;
Gras 2000, 21–21–22. Ridgway (1996, 87–97), sees the hole as serving the practical purpose
of letting the wool out of the vase gradually without having it become matted.
68 De Grummond 1982.
69 For Rome, see Horsfall 2003.
70 Livy 9.36.3. Bonfante and Bonfante 2002, 57.
71 Bonfante and Bonfante 2002, 149–151, Source No. 31.
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