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

OF VASES. 55

ported by bands under the arm ; at her feet a small tripod ;
the Mamad standing behind Dionysos holds in her left hand
over his head a white phiale ornamented with the egg
moulding, placing her right hand on his shoulder; her hair is
bound with an opistho-sphendone and a diadem; she wears
earrings, a beaded necklace, armlets, and a talaric chiton
with bands passing under the arms, and with an upper fold
or garment girt at the waist and reaching to the hips; her
garment and that of Ariadne are embroidered, and have a
double stripe down the front; the Seilenos behind her
dances, waving his left hand and holding in his right a
phiale; he is bearded, and wears a laurel wreath ; a panther's
skin is knotted round his neck; at his feet lies a tympanon
fringed round the edge; the flesh of Ariadne and of Nike,
the chair, the tympanon, the phiale, and other accessories,
are painted white; over the head of Dionysos a star; on
a line with which, over the heads of the other figures, a
row of flowers: 2. rev. Thetis and the Nereids conveying
the armour of Achilles across the sea; the first figure on
the left is seated sideways on a dolphin, and holds up in
both hands the cuirass; her hair is bound with a radiated
ampyx and rises in a mass of ringlets over the forehead ; she
wears a beaded necklace, armlets, a talaric chiton, bordered
and striped down the sides and girt at the waist, and apeplos
thrown over her lower limbs; her chiton is fastened by a
circular perone on each shoulder; her girdle is ornamented with
white studs; she looks towards the centre of the scene, and
her dolphin moves in the same direction, so as to face Thetis,
who follows riding on a Hippocamp, and bearing on her left
arm the shield; the hair of the goddess is bound with a
radiated diadem and gathered into a knot behind ; she wears
earrings, a necklace, and a talaric chiton, over which falls an
upper fold or garment to the hips, girt at the waist; her
chiton is bordered with the wave pattern, below which, on the
breast, is a row of five flowers ; the Hippocamp is composed
of the forehand of a horse united behind the shoulder with a
fish's tail; immediately behind the legs are a pair of fins ; the
shield is Argolic, with the device of a snake encircled with
the wave pattern, black on a white ground; in front of
this figure is Eros, floating in the air and pointing to the
Nereid with the cuirass, as he looks back at Thetis; his
hair falls in ringlets over his shoulder, and, rising in a mass
over the forehead, is bound with a radiated diadem ; behind