Framing…

The frame was also crafted by Pepijn himself. The inscriptions upon it are two excerpts from the Theogony (a Greek text by Hesiod):

AUTAR EPEI TITHNAS AP OURANOU EXELASE ZEUS, OPLOTATON TEKE PAIDA TUFWEA GAIA PELWRH  ·  EK DE OI WMWN HN EKATON KEFALAI OFIOS DEINOIO DRAKONTOS

“When Zeus had driven the Titans from the sky, huge Earth bore as her youngest son Typhoeus [...] and from his shoulders there were a hundred heads of a snake, a terrible dragon’s” (820-825)

 ZEUS D EPEI OUN KORQUNEN EON MENOS, EILETO D OPLA, BRONTHN TE STERPHN TE KAI AIQALOETA KERAUNOU, PLHXEN AP OULUMPOIO EPALMENOS

“Then when Zeus had lifted up his strength and grasped his weapons, the thunder and lightning and the blazing thunderbolt, he struck him, leaping upon him from Olympus” (853-855)