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OF VASES. 75
the Amazon stands before this group, on the right, defending
herself with her shield and drawing hack to aim her spear
at the Gryphon; she wears a Phrygian cap over a crested
helmet, a tight-fitting jerkin and anaxyrides, both of skin,
a chiton reaching to the knees and girt at the waist, and
sandals ; her shield is a very long pelta, extending from the
hand to the opposite shoulder; one side is lunated, the other
forms a double curve; the Gryphon, the horse's legs, the
girdle and spear of the Amazon, are painted white; under
each handle a female head, looking towards the scene, orna-
mented with earrings of three drops, trigttna, and a necklace;
the hair bound with an opisthosphendone, which is knotted
over the forehead, embroidered, and radiated on its upper
edge ; in front of the head on the right, a flower. H.
1369. Hydria. cxc. 1 ft. 3?g in. Design red with
accessories in white on a black ground; a Satyr, Komos,
moves to the right, playing on the double flute, and accom-
panied by a Masnad, who passes her right arm round his
shoulder and holds in her left hand a tympanon; in her right
she holds a thyrsus; the Satyr is beardless and wears endro-
mides; the Masnad has a peplos round her lower limbs and
wears sandals; both wear wreaths; under each handle-a
female head, ornamented with earrings and a necklace, the
hair covered with a woven cap, which is ornamented with
lines radiating from the crown and intersected round the
edge of the cap so as to form lozenges; both heads look to
the left. H.
D'Hanoarville, n, PI. 66. i, PI. 101.
1370. -------------- cxc. IStV in. Design red and white
on a black ground; on the right a female figure weighing two
Erotes in a pair of scales, of which the one on the right de-
scends; opposite her stands a youthful male figure leaning on
his staff, looking on; the female figure has her hair bound
with a radiated ampyx, and wears earrings, armlets, a talaric
chiton, and a peplos; she holds the scales over a seat on which
is a ball, and the legs of which are painted white; the male
figure is beardless, and wears a mantle which leaves his right
arm and shoulder free; behind this figure hangs a sash, below
which is a circular flower ; between the beads of the two
figures is a ball, above which a row of ivy leaves; behind the
female figure a ball, below which is a circular flower; the
the Amazon stands before this group, on the right, defending
herself with her shield and drawing hack to aim her spear
at the Gryphon; she wears a Phrygian cap over a crested
helmet, a tight-fitting jerkin and anaxyrides, both of skin,
a chiton reaching to the knees and girt at the waist, and
sandals ; her shield is a very long pelta, extending from the
hand to the opposite shoulder; one side is lunated, the other
forms a double curve; the Gryphon, the horse's legs, the
girdle and spear of the Amazon, are painted white; under
each handle a female head, looking towards the scene, orna-
mented with earrings of three drops, trigttna, and a necklace;
the hair bound with an opisthosphendone, which is knotted
over the forehead, embroidered, and radiated on its upper
edge ; in front of the head on the right, a flower. H.
1369. Hydria. cxc. 1 ft. 3?g in. Design red with
accessories in white on a black ground; a Satyr, Komos,
moves to the right, playing on the double flute, and accom-
panied by a Masnad, who passes her right arm round his
shoulder and holds in her left hand a tympanon; in her right
she holds a thyrsus; the Satyr is beardless and wears endro-
mides; the Masnad has a peplos round her lower limbs and
wears sandals; both wear wreaths; under each handle-a
female head, ornamented with earrings and a necklace, the
hair covered with a woven cap, which is ornamented with
lines radiating from the crown and intersected round the
edge of the cap so as to form lozenges; both heads look to
the left. H.
D'Hanoarville, n, PI. 66. i, PI. 101.
1370. -------------- cxc. IStV in. Design red and white
on a black ground; on the right a female figure weighing two
Erotes in a pair of scales, of which the one on the right de-
scends; opposite her stands a youthful male figure leaning on
his staff, looking on; the female figure has her hair bound
with a radiated ampyx, and wears earrings, armlets, a talaric
chiton, and a peplos; she holds the scales over a seat on which
is a ball, and the legs of which are painted white; the male
figure is beardless, and wears a mantle which leaves his right
arm and shoulder free; behind this figure hangs a sash, below
which is a circular flower ; between the beads of the two
figures is a ball, above which a row of ivy leaves; behind the
female figure a ball, below which is a circular flower; the