A catalogue of the Greek and Etruscan Vases in the British Museum (Band 1) (London, 1851)

OF VASES.

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AUN ; his chiton is encircled by a black line a little above the
ancles ; behind Poseidon a winged Nike moving rapidly for-
ward and extending her right hand before her with an expres-
sion of amazement at the sight; her hair is bound with a
double diadem; she wears a talaric chiton with sleeves over
which is a bordered, outer garment, reaching only to the ancles ;
on the right hand of Zeus Eileithyia who looks round as she
moves away from him, expressing surprize by the gesture of
her hands; her hair is looped up behind under a diadem ; she
wears a talaric chiton over which is an outer garment reaching
to the hips and falling in a fold over the girdle; both this and
the chiton have an open seam down the right side ; over the
head of this figure, HIAEI OVA, from right to left; behind her
Artemis advancing towards the scene; she raises her right
hand with a gesture of surprize, in her left she holds her bow;
she wears armlets and a talaric chiton over which is an upper
fold or garment falling as low as the waist and with looped up
sleeves ; her long hair is bound with a triple diadem and flows
down her neck ; the ends of the tresses are confined in a net;
over her head, APTEMIX, from right to left; her chiton is
encircled half way up the leg by a black line ; on the reverse
the same scene continued; behind Nike follows a youthful
male figure, Apollo? he is beardless, his hair is bound with a
wreath and falls in three tresses in front of the ear ; an ample
mantle covers him from head to foot, leaving the right arm
and shoulder free ; behind this figure follows Dionysos holding
in his left hand a thyrsus and looking back at the figure behind
him ; his hair, ivy-crowned, falls in long tresses, his beard is
long and pointed; he wears a talaric chiton with sleeves and a
peplos; over his head, AIONVZOZ; behind, a middle aged
figure bald on the forehead and bearded ; he wears a wreath
and a mantle which envelopes him from head to foot leaving the
right arm and shoulder free ; in his right hand he holds a staff;
back to back with this figure Hades, his hair and beard white;
he is clad in a bordered mantle reaching from head to foot and
holds in his right hand a staff; this vase is remarkable for
the beauty of the drawing; the types of the different divinities
are finely discriminated in the expression of the features ; the
eye-lashes of all the figures on the obverse except Artemis are
carefully given, the upper ones being drawn in profile, the
lower ones indicated by separate strokes ; on the bottom of the
foot a character painted, PL B. 741 .* Vulci.

Gerhard, Auserl. Vasenb. I, Taf. 3, 4. Lcnormant ami De Wittc, Mon. Ceram.
1, PI. C4.