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proportion of the designs relates to Dionysiac subjects, to
Aphrodite and Eros, or to sepulchral rites. It has been
maintained that some of these subjects relate to the
Dionysiac or Eleusinian mysteries; but as the names of
the figures represented are seldom inscribed on vases of
this period, it is often difficult to ascertain the import
of these compositions.
The greater part of the vases in this room come from
Southern Italy; some of the finest specimens are from
the Temple, Blacas, Pourtales, and Castellani collections.
They are arranged in Wall Cases 1—3-1 and 68-72, and
in the Table Cases. Certain select rases are placed on
Table Cases.
KEATEES WITH COLTJMNAB HANDLES.
No. 1 (Wall Case 3). Prokris slain by her husband
Kcpkalos. Above her head is a bird with a human face,
thought to represent her soul quitting the body. Millingen,
TJned. Mon. pi. 14; Yase Cat. No. 1269.
No. 2 (Wall Case 3). Contest of Apollo and Herakles
for the tripod. Vase Cat. No. 1270.
No. 3 (Wall Case 2). Armed foot race (hoplites dromos).
No. 4 (Wall Case 2). Boreas seizing Oreithyia. Ger-
hard, Auserl. Vasenb. iii. pi. 152; Vase Cat. No. 1276.
No. 5 (Wall Case 2). Contest of Apollo and Marsyas in
the presence of Athene and Artemis. Mon. Ceram. ii. pi.
69 ; Vase Cat. No. 1277.
No. 6 (Table Case N). Kaineus killed by the Centaurs
Petraios and Agrios. Itev. The Centaur Asbolos striking
on the breast the Lapith Hoplos. Vase Cat. No. 1266.
KEATEES.
No. 7 (Wall Case 1). An Ionic column, on which is
placed a small statue of Herakles, armed with his bow and
club; in front of this column an altar, which a female
figure approaches from the left, bringing fruits and cakes
as offerings ; on the right a bearded Satyr is kindling the
fire on the altar. Behind him a wine-skin hanging from
a tree, and a vase painted with black figures on red ground.
Apulia. Blacas.
No. 8 (Wall Case 3). Hermes confiding the infant
Dionysos to a Maenad: over these figures are severally
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proportion of the designs relates to Dionysiac subjects, to
Aphrodite and Eros, or to sepulchral rites. It has been
maintained that some of these subjects relate to the
Dionysiac or Eleusinian mysteries; but as the names of
the figures represented are seldom inscribed on vases of
this period, it is often difficult to ascertain the import
of these compositions.
The greater part of the vases in this room come from
Southern Italy; some of the finest specimens are from
the Temple, Blacas, Pourtales, and Castellani collections.
They are arranged in Wall Cases 1—3-1 and 68-72, and
in the Table Cases. Certain select rases are placed on
Table Cases.
KEATEES WITH COLTJMNAB HANDLES.
No. 1 (Wall Case 3). Prokris slain by her husband
Kcpkalos. Above her head is a bird with a human face,
thought to represent her soul quitting the body. Millingen,
TJned. Mon. pi. 14; Yase Cat. No. 1269.
No. 2 (Wall Case 3). Contest of Apollo and Herakles
for the tripod. Vase Cat. No. 1270.
No. 3 (Wall Case 2). Armed foot race (hoplites dromos).
No. 4 (Wall Case 2). Boreas seizing Oreithyia. Ger-
hard, Auserl. Vasenb. iii. pi. 152; Vase Cat. No. 1276.
No. 5 (Wall Case 2). Contest of Apollo and Marsyas in
the presence of Athene and Artemis. Mon. Ceram. ii. pi.
69 ; Vase Cat. No. 1277.
No. 6 (Table Case N). Kaineus killed by the Centaurs
Petraios and Agrios. Itev. The Centaur Asbolos striking
on the breast the Lapith Hoplos. Vase Cat. No. 1266.
KEATEES.
No. 7 (Wall Case 1). An Ionic column, on which is
placed a small statue of Herakles, armed with his bow and
club; in front of this column an altar, which a female
figure approaches from the left, bringing fruits and cakes
as offerings ; on the right a bearded Satyr is kindling the
fire on the altar. Behind him a wine-skin hanging from
a tree, and a vase painted with black figures on red ground.
Apulia. Blacas.
No. 8 (Wall Case 3). Hermes confiding the infant
Dionysos to a Maenad: over these figures are severally
B 2