Torpedo rays in antiquity Pastel View with allegorical figures and

View with allegorical figures and objects around a table

found in the Red Sea and western Indian Ocean

and Anita Pallenberg

The photograph was probably taken on the occasion of its opening

Torpedo rays in antiquity Pastel View with allegorical figures andRepresentations of the Common torpedo (Torpedo torpedo) and the Marbled electric ray (Torpedo marmorata) from classical sources. Figures 1 5 show the Common torpedo as drawn or painted on amphorae, a pinax (votive tablet) and a patera (libation bowl). Figure 6 shows the Marbled electric ray from a small pinax. Plate 3 from the monograph Die Gattung Torpedo in ihren naturhistorischen antiquarischen Beziehungen [The natural history and antiquarian