
Nette Megens
Head of Department, Director
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Head of Department, Director

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The depiction on the saucer relates to the story of Philomena and Thereus. Thereus forced himself upon Philomena, his wife's sister. In revenge, his wife Procne killed their son and served his flesh his father. When Thereus learned what she had done, he tried to kill the two sisters but all three were changed by the Olympian Gods into birds: Thereus became a hoopoe; Procne became the swallow whose song is a song of mourning for the loss of her child; Philomela became the nightingale.