The three titans are shown upon a laconic bowl (~550 BC) while they are being punished for their insurgency against the tyrant Jupiter:

• Prometheus is tied to a column representing the Caucasus.
• Atlas acts as the column at the opposite side of the hellenic world.

The forced apart couple of erotic acrobats are oppressed into face-to-face-opposition to each other.

• Typhoëus is represented by the column propping up the rotating disc-shaped pottery-wheel upon which the titans - put asunder by the centrifugal forces - are trying to delicately (equi)poise each other while being contorted into a precarious 'kneeling' posture which is part of their penalty and handicap ...