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I EARLIEST ROME<br />

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] .7c(ii) Hephaestus at the Volcanal<br />

This fragment of a Greek (Athenian) pot, 570-560 B.C., is the most ancient of<br />

the objects to be found associated with the Volcanal. It depicts the Greek god<br />

Hephaestus - who (as has always been known) was eventually 'identified' with<br />

the Roman Vulcan, as the god of fire and of metalworking - returning to<br />

Olympus, riding on a donkey. The presence of this fragment at the site suggests<br />

chat the identification of the Roman with the Greek god, far from being late or<br />

literary, was made already in the sixth century B.C.

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