Walters, Henry Beauchamp; British Museum <London> [Hrsg.]: Catalogue of the Greek and Etruscan Vases in the British Museum (Band 2): Black-figured vases (London, 1893)

I3O CATALOGUE OF VASES.

'AiroWav. Behind Heracles is Athene to L, with long tresses, high-crested
helmet with cheek-pieces, aegis held out on 1. arm (incised markings and fringe
of snakes), long embroidered chiton, and spear. Below : *AAH30A, 'Adqvdas.
In front of her is a hind to r. looking back. Behind Apollo is Artemis to r.,
with long tresses, sphendone, long chiton and himation, both embroidered, 1.
hand raised; behind her: *OA..M3TSA, 'A'pTe/ipjSo?. Below Heracles is in-

scribed: f o > (perhaps icaSjb<i Kapjvurtos], cf. Wernicke, Lieblingsnamen,

p. 94, note 1).

[Cf. Roscher, p. 2213 ; Stephani, Compte-Rendic, 1868, p. 31 ff. ; Ber. d. Sachs. Ges. 1853,
pi. 6 ; Berlin Cat. 2159.]

(b) Apollo Citharoedos to r., beardless, with long tresses wreathed with
laurel, long chiton and himation, both embroidered, playing with a plectrum on
the lyre; by his further side is a bull to r. In advance of him is Hermes
departing, looking back, bearded, with ch\a.mys,petasos, endromides, and caduceus,
r. hand raised. Behind Apollo is Dionysos to r., with long beard and tresses,
ivy-wreath, long chiton and himation, both embroidered, in r. hand vine-branches
with bunch of grapes, in 1. a cantharos.

B 196. AMPHORA. Old No. 603. Ht. io\ in. From Vulci. Canino Coll. 806. Klein,

Euphro?iiosi, p. 122; Mayer, Gig. u. Titan, p. 315. Designs in black on red panels, with
double honeysuckle-pattern above. On the sides of the handles, ivy-wreaths ; below, palmettes.

(a) Contest of Heracles and Antaios (type E. 9): In the centre is
Heracles to r., bearded, with fillet and embroidered drapery fastened round loins,
seizing Antaios by the 1. arm with 1. hand, the r. drawn back to strike him.
Antaios crouches down on one knee, nude and bearded, with long hair, r. hand
raised above head, 1. grasping Heracles' waist. Above him is drapery sus-
pended ; in front of him is an imitation inscription. Behind Heracles is Athene
to r., with long tresses, high-crested helmet with fillet, aegis with snakes, long
embroidered chiton, in r. hand a spear, 1. raised, at her feet a shield with device
of a tripod. In front of her is inscribed: A..ENA(?). Behind her is Hermes
to r., bearded, with long hair, fillet, short chiton, embroidered chlamys, petasos,
endromides, and caduceus. On the r. is a Doric portico with one column visible,
on the further side of which is Poseidon (father of Antaios) to r. looking back ;
he is bearded, with fillet, petasos, embroidered chlamys, endromides, and two
spears, r. hand raised. Under the portico is Ge (mother of Antaios, cf. B 322)
to 1., with long tresses, fillet, long chiton and himation, 1. hand extended as if in
supplication, r. thrown back.

[This scene represents the early archaic type ; later, as in B 222 and B 322, Antaios
lies on the ground. For the subject, cf. Roscher, p. 2207 ; Arch. Zeit. 1878, pi. 10 ; Mon. delf
Inst. 1855, pi. 5 ; Gerhard, A. V. 113 ; and Klein, /. c]

(b) Three horsemen to v., all beardless, with fillets, embroidced chlamydes,
and white petasi, each carrying two spears ; the second, whose horse is piebald,
looks back at the third ; by the side of the horses two hounds walk to r.