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Proserpina en Ascalaphus als uil

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Ascalaphus changed into a screech-owl: as punishment for discovering she had eaten some pomegranates, Proserpina sprinkles water from the Phlegethon on Ascalaphus' head, thus changing him into a screech-owl (Ovid, Metamorphoses V 543)

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    Enea Vico (possibly), 1548

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    Antonio Tempesta, 1606

    Proserpina verandert Ascalaphus in een uil
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    Enea Vico (possibly), 1548

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    Melchior Küsel (I) (mentioned on object), 1670

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Ascalaphus changed into a screech-owl: as punishment for discovering she had eaten some pomegranates, Proserpina sprinkles water from the Phlegethon on Ascalaphus' head, thus changing him into a screech-owl (Ovid, Metamorphoses V 543)

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