A catalogue of the Greek and Etruscan Vases in the British Museum (Band 2) (London, 1870)

OF VASES.

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1283. Krater. ccxiv. 1 ft. 1-& in. by 12T8<x in. De-
sign red, with accessories in white on a black ground; 1.
Apollo, Artemis, Hermes, Leto ; in the centre of the scene
the Delphic omphalos; on the left stands Apollo, pouring a
libation on the omphalos from the phiale in his right hand, and
playing on the heptachord lyre with his left; opposite him
stands Artemis, holding in her right hand an oinochod, in her left
her bow strung; Apollo is beardless; his long hair is knotted
up behind and wreathed with laurel ; a few ringlets fall in
front of the ear ; he wears a talaric chiton, and a peplos which
falls in longpteruges; from his lyre hangs drapery ornamented
with alternate zigzags and rows of rings, and fringed at the
bottom; his phiale is ornamented with the egg moulding;
Artemis has her hair gathered up behind and cross-banded;
she wears earrings, and a talaric chiton, over which falls an
upper fold or garment, girt at the waist and reaching to the
hips; at her back her quiver; behind her, on the extreme
right, stands Leto, holding out in her right hand a phiale;
her hair is bound with a radiated sphendone ; she wears ear-
rings, a talaric chiton, and a peplos drawn over the back of
her head; the chitons of all these three figures are encircled
with a black line a little above the ancle ; behind Apollo, on
the extreme left, Hermes stands holding up in his right hand
a flower; in his left he holds the caduceus; he is beardless and
wears the petasus and chlamys; the omphalos is tetainiomenos,
i. e. covered with tainice, on which are strung rows of beads;
2. rev. three youthful male figures conversing; all are beard-
less, and wear diadems and mantles; the figure on the right
holds in his right hand a staff; his two companions stand
facing him; the central figure has his hands muffled in his
mantle; the figure on the left advances his right hand as if
speaking; he and the figure on the right have their right
arms and shoulders uncovered ; over the head of Apollo and
over one handle, two holes have been drilled through the
neck of the vase. Nola.

Dur. No. 9. Lenormant et Do Witte, Mon. Ceram. n, PI. 26.

1284.--------------cciv. 9&in. by 11-^in. Design red

on a black ground, with accessories in crimson; Dionysos
and two Satyrs ; in the centre of the scene, Dionysos moving
to the right, but looking back and holding out his kantharos
to be filled from the oinochoe of the Satyr who is following
him ; before Dionysos is a youthful Satyr, playing on the

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