Niobidy, Materialy po Archeologii Rossii 24 (S.-Peterburg 1901) no. 1–4 fig. 1–4. ↩ A gender-specific function has been proposed by Pinelli and Wasowicz: P. Pinelli – A. Wasowicz, Musée du Louvre [...] südlichen Russland gefundener Kunstwerke, in: CRPétersbourg 1875 (St.-Pétersbourg 1876) 5–91 pl. 1, 1–20. 2, 1. ↩ C. Watzinger, Griechische Holzsarkophage aus der Zeit Alexanders des Grossen (Leipzig [...] been provoked by the mortal Niobe, the mother of many children, who boasts about the number of her offspring in comparison to the divine Leto. Niobe’s hybris is punished severely by Apollo and Artemis