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Newton, Charles T. [Hrsg.]; British Museum <London> / Department of Greek and Roman Antiquities [Hrsg.]
Second vase room (Band 2) — London, 1878

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moves to the right, holding in his right hand the caduceus ;
he carries the ram on his shoulders; with his left hand he
presses its four feet against his breast; on his head is the
petasos; his beard is long and pointed; he wears a close-
fitting chiton; his mantle is wound round his arms. On the
right edge of this fragment are indications of drapery, pro-
bably belonging to a figure towards which Hermes was
represented moving. Height, 6^ in. by 3i in.

(173) Fragment: male figure on horseback, carrying a
heptachord lyre in his left hand. The horse is moving to
the left abreast of another horse indicated beyond; of the
male figure only the left hand and left side from the waist
to the bottom of the calf remain; his hip and thigh are
concealed by a granulated covering, perhaps the skin of
some animal. Of the horse which this figure rides, only
the body as far as the base of the neck and the upper part
of the hind legs remain; round the shoulder is a collar,
lepadnon, ornamented with rosettes between two rows of
beads. Of the horse beyond only part of the shoulder, orna-
mented with a similar collar, and part of the left hind leg
remain. Length, 5-| in. by 3 in.

(174) Bearded male figure, Dionysos (?), to the left. In
his right hand he holds by the foot a two-handled vase; his
beard is long and pointed; his long hair is waved on the
temples and looped up behind; he wears a talaric chiton,
over which is a mantle thrown across both arms and cross-
ing the breast; the figure is broken off at the waist, and
wants the left hand. The edge of this terracotta is complete
on the right. The vase has spiral handles; on the body is
the wave pattern incised. Height, 3| in.

TABLE CASE K—continued.

OENAMENTS OF JOINT TILES.

(175) Eront of joint tile, imbrex, Tealypter. Within an
arched frame a female mask. The hair, waved over the
forehead, falls on each side of the face in two tresses which
reach a little below the neck. Between them appears the
border of the chiton, ornamented with a zigzag, below which
is an indented pattern painted in purple on a drab ground ;
the tresses are divided by horizontal furrows at regular
 
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