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

OF VASES. 235

ground with accessories in crimson ; contest of Herakles with
the Acheloos ; the river god is represented with a Satyr's head
and long bull's horns on his forehead ; his form, human to the
waist, terminates in a fish's tail; his hair falls down his back,
his beard is long and pointed ; Herakles is naked and bearded,
his hair wreathed with myrtle; with his right hand he has seized
Acheloos by the left horn and, bending round, grasps his
throat with his left hand, passing his left leg over the back of
the monster, in order that he may bestride him ; Acheloos
vainly endeavours to disengage himself by grasping the two
wrists of Herakles ; behind the right elbow of the hero, H EPA-
KVE; in front of Acheloos, AXEVOIO, both names from right
to left, and above the group, CD AN® . . .EPOI El, " Panthaios,
made [me] •" 2. the Satyr, Komos, or the Seilenos, Marsyas,
playing on the double flutes accompanied by the Nymph, Orei-
thyia, who plays on the krotala; the Satyr is ivy-crowned and
bearded ; he raises his left foot to beat time ; all his figure except
his head and the mouthpiece of his pipes appears to be restored ;
Oreithyia wears a conical cap wreathed with ivy, earrings, a
talaric chiton, a peplos and a panther's skin knotted round her
neck ; her hair hangs in parallel ringlets on her cheek, her
chiton is encircled halfway up the leg by a black line ; in her
right hand she holds a branch, flourishing the krotala with her
left and advancing as if dancing; behind her, OPEI0VA,
" Oreithyia" from right to left; on the bottom of the foot
incised characters, PI. B. 7S9. Cervetri.

Birch, Trans. Roy. Soc. of Lit. New series,8vo. Lond. 1843.1, p. 100. Gerhard,
Auserl. Vasenb. Taf. cxv. Panofka, Namen der Vasenbildner, in Abhandl. d. k.
Akad. d. Wiss. Berlin, 1848. p. p. 153-241, Taf. v.

790. Amphora, cxxxvi. 2 ft. 1 in. Design red on a
black ground, the main outlines drawn in black, the inner
markings faintly traced in red, with accessories in crimson;
1. Dionysos, Briachos and Erophylle ; Dionysos stands in
the centre of the group, his hair is ivy-crowned, flows down
his back and, like that of the other two figures in this scene,
is bostruchoeides or clustered in small curls on the forehead
so as to imitate bunches of grapes; his beard is long
and pointed; he wears a talaric chiton with sleeves, over
M'hich is an embroidered peplos; in his right hand he holds
the kantharos, over the left shoulder a vine ; in front of bis body,
AlONVSOS; Erophylle advances towards him, holding out
in her right hand a snake with its head pointed upwards
and its tongue projecting, in her left she holds a branch;