User talk:Koos Rauws

explanation: Delete mistake: “A more elegantly carved ivory relief from Pompeii depicts a similar scene. There are four women present: the parturient in the birthing chair; an attendant standing behind the chair providing support; the midwife seated in a low stool in front of the mother; and a fourth woman standing behind the midwife, waiting to take the infant or possibly offer a blessing. This minimal visual evidence confirms the verbal descriptions of childbirth present in the works of Pliny and Soranus.[4]”

This ivory plate in the National Archeological Museum of Naples, inv. nr. 109905A, has at the convex side a relief of a mythological scene from the Trojan War. The scene is located on the isle of Chryse. Philoctetes is treated with a wet sponge for his leg after being bitten by a poisonous snake. The person to the left who is wearing the headdress is the goddess Chryse.

Ref: Dutch: see Jac. E Rauws, Een bevalling óf de gewonde Philoktetes, in Hermeneus, 79 – 1 2007, pp 31 – 36.

English: see Jacobus Evert Rauws, Philoctetes and Chryse in ivory, in Rivista di Studi Pompeiani, XVIII 2007 pp81 – 85

Therefor it is better not to mention the ivory plate in this article. Koos Rauws, 20 dec 2008