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The bowl-stand was the only Lydian dedication remaining at Delphi when Pausanias (x. 16. 1-2) visited the shrine; he describes it as ‘in shape like a tower, broader at the base ... the sides are not each in a single piece, but the iron crossbands are arranged like the rungs in a ladder’. Athenaeus (210c) quotes Hegesander, a Delphian, as saying that on it were figures of animals in relief.

Glaucus was a contemporary of Gyges (Eusebius); this work therefore was made some time before its presentation (cf. vii. 27 n., the golden plane-tree). For Glaucus cf. Overbeck, Schriftquellen, 263-72. Frazer (P. v. 313-14), who has a good note on ‘welding’ and ‘soldering’, explains κόλλησις as ‘welding’, i. e. the beating of two pieces of white-hot iron into one, without any uniting substance. Murray (Gk. Sculpt. i. 81-2) translates ‘soldering’, i. e. uniting two pieces of metal by interposition of a third of different metal; but no method of soldering iron was known till quite recently. The art of welding was known in Egypt very early.

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