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

OF VASES. 97

1406. Amphora, ccxvi. 1 ft. 2$ in. Design red with
accessories in white on a black ground ; 1. a female figure
seated on a seat, and playing on a small harp, the triffdnon
or magadis ; before her stands a youthful male figure, lean-
ing against a loutron behind him, and caressing with his right
hand a fawn looking up to him ; hovering in the air above
the androgynous Eros flies towards the seated female figure,
crowning her with a wreath ; in his left hand a piddle., and a
ball hanging from a string; the female figure has her hair
bound with a radiated opistho-sphendone', and wears earrings,
a double necklace, armlets, a talaric chiton, a peplos, and
sandals; her feet rest on a footstool; the youthful figure
standing opposite is beardless, and wears a wreath; a chlamys
is twisted round his left arm; in his left hand is a knotted
stick; Eros has long hair, bound with a radiated opistho-
sphendonS, and wears earrings, a necklace, a beaded shoulder
belt, a double beaded circlet round the left thigh, perinkelides,
and sandals; on either side of him hangs a sash, tainia; the
loutron is painted white, and is placed on a fluted hypostaton
or stand; behind it a sash, tainia; the ground is marked by
irregular lines of dots: 2. rev. a female figure seated on a
rock, holding out in her left hand aphiale; before her stands
a youthful male figure, holding up a large mirror above her
head ; the female figure has her hair bound with a beaded
diadem, and drawn back through a cap open behind ; she
wears earrings, a necklace, armlets, a talaric chiton girt at
the waist, and white sandals ; above her head hangs an em-
broidered sash, and in front of her is another sash; the figure
standing before her wears a wreath and sandals ; his chlamys
is wrapped round his left arm ; in his left hand a knotted
stick; above his head a pair of halteres; behind him a
circular flower; the ground of the scene is irregular, and
indicated by broken lines of dots. Basilicata.

Dur. No. 424.

1407.--------------ccxvi. 1 ft. 2T4o in. Design red with

accessories in white on a black ground ; 1. on the left a
female figure seated on a rock, and holding out in her left
hand a phiale, containing fruit and myrtle branches, to a
youthful male figure, who stands before her holding a fan over
the pMaU; her right hand holds a laurel branch erect; her
hair is radiated over the forehead, and drawn back under a
cap, which is open and tied with a string behind ; she wears

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