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standing by. On the neck of the vase two gryphons de-
vouring a stag.
Hrater. 1. The initiation'of Herakles and the Dioskuri
at the lesser mysteries at Agra. The columns in the
distance indicate that the scene takes place in front of a
Doric edifice, probably the temple of Demeter, at Agra.
The personages represented are Demeter seated, Perse-
phone, Artemis, and Hekate, holding a torch ; the two
Dioskuri, Herakles, and Triptolemos, with his winged car.
2. rgy. Dionysos, Ploutos, Hephaistos, and other figures.
Cab. Pourtales, pll. xvi., xvii. Lenormant et De Witte,
Mon. Ceram. III., pi. 68A. AyatAa dFGotf.'
on ToMo Cbsgs E. G.
On Table Cases E and G are six Panathenaic amp7io)*<%
from the Cyrenaica, one of which was obtained by Mr.
Vice-Consul Werry, and the other five by Mr. Consul
Dennis. These vases are of special interest, because three
of them hear the names of Athenian archons, by which
their dates can be respectively fixed to B.C. 367, 333, and
328. Four other vases, also inscribed with the names of
Athenian archons, have been discovered in the Cyrenaica.
The earliest of the seven vases thus inscribed, bears date
B.C. 367; the latest cannot be assigned to a date posterior
to B.C. 313. In all of them the design is painted in black
with incised lines, in imitation of the earlier style of Cera-
mography, which seems to have fallen into disuse about
B.C. 450. The style of drawing in the Cyrenaic vases may
be described as pseudo-archaic, differing from the true
archaic style in many essential points of the treatment, as
has been shewn by Mr. Dennis, in his description of these
vases. (Transactions of Royal Society of Literature, 2nd
series, IX., Pt. 1, pp. 166-181.)
These vases were, it is to be presumed, made at Athens,
and thence imported into the Cyrenaica. Other vases
with black figures, in the same pseudo-archaic style, but
differing inform and subject, have been recently discovered
at Athens.
All the Panathenaic from the Cyrenaica bear on
the obverse the figure of Athene Promachos attired in a
long and pgpfos, and armed with spear and shield,
while on the reverse are represented a chariot race, wrest-
standing by. On the neck of the vase two gryphons de-
vouring a stag.
Hrater. 1. The initiation'of Herakles and the Dioskuri
at the lesser mysteries at Agra. The columns in the
distance indicate that the scene takes place in front of a
Doric edifice, probably the temple of Demeter, at Agra.
The personages represented are Demeter seated, Perse-
phone, Artemis, and Hekate, holding a torch ; the two
Dioskuri, Herakles, and Triptolemos, with his winged car.
2. rgy. Dionysos, Ploutos, Hephaistos, and other figures.
Cab. Pourtales, pll. xvi., xvii. Lenormant et De Witte,
Mon. Ceram. III., pi. 68A. AyatAa dFGotf.'
on ToMo Cbsgs E. G.
On Table Cases E and G are six Panathenaic amp7io)*<%
from the Cyrenaica, one of which was obtained by Mr.
Vice-Consul Werry, and the other five by Mr. Consul
Dennis. These vases are of special interest, because three
of them hear the names of Athenian archons, by which
their dates can be respectively fixed to B.C. 367, 333, and
328. Four other vases, also inscribed with the names of
Athenian archons, have been discovered in the Cyrenaica.
The earliest of the seven vases thus inscribed, bears date
B.C. 367; the latest cannot be assigned to a date posterior
to B.C. 313. In all of them the design is painted in black
with incised lines, in imitation of the earlier style of Cera-
mography, which seems to have fallen into disuse about
B.C. 450. The style of drawing in the Cyrenaic vases may
be described as pseudo-archaic, differing from the true
archaic style in many essential points of the treatment, as
has been shewn by Mr. Dennis, in his description of these
vases. (Transactions of Royal Society of Literature, 2nd
series, IX., Pt. 1, pp. 166-181.)
These vases were, it is to be presumed, made at Athens,
and thence imported into the Cyrenaica. Other vases
with black figures, in the same pseudo-archaic style, but
differing inform and subject, have been recently discovered
at Athens.
All the Panathenaic from the Cyrenaica bear on
the obverse the figure of Athene Promachos attired in a
long and pgpfos, and armed with spear and shield,
while on the reverse are represented a chariot race, wrest-