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

AMPHORAE WITH RED BODY. 139

Studien, p. 248 ; Corey, Amaz. Ant. Fig. p. 61 ; Rev. Phil. ii. p. 423 ; Brunn, Kunstlergesch.,
p. 690 ; Klein, Meistersig., p. 39 ; Wernicke, Lieblingsn. p. 25 ; C. I. Gr. 8156. Cf. De Witte,
Coll. a I hotel Lambert, pi. xiii. 43. Somewhat injured. Mannered style. Neck as last vase.
Under each handle, two patterns of spirals ; below, as last vase.

(a) Achilles slaying Penthesilea (type K. ; cf. the last vase) : Achilles
to r., bearded, with long tresses, fully armed, high-crested helmet and short
striped chiton, has beaten down Penthesilea on one knee to r., and plunges
spear into her throat. She has a high-crested helmet with cheek-pieces and
serpent in relief, short diapered chiton, over which is a pardalis, sword and
shield, and looks back at him, thrusting vainly with spear ; a stream of blood
gushes from her wound. In front of Achilles is inscribed : A+IVEVJ ; in front of
Penthesilea : PEN0EJIVEA. On the 1. is inscribed : 3*3lon3*AIM3*+3, 'E^o-jy/cta?
eTTOLijo-e ; on the right: ONETOPIAE$ KAVOJ, 'Oz^rop/S^? «ra\6?.

(b) Dionysos and Oinopion : Dionysos to 1., bearded, with hair looped up
and wreathed with ivy, long white chiton and embroidered himation, holds in 1.
hand vine-branches, and with r. gives a cantharos to Oinopion, who stands
facing him, nude and beardless, his hair looped up with a myrtle wreath, holding
an oinochoe in r. hand. In front of Dionysos is inscribed : iO^VHOIA, Atowcxo? ;
above Oinopion : OINOPION ; behind him: 3*3lon3*Al»3*+3, as on (a).

B 211. AMPHORA with cover Ht. l8f in. Chiusi, 1851. Bull, dell' Inst. 1851, p. 52 ; Arch.

Zeit. 1851, pp. 43*, 86* ff. ; Schneider, Tro. Sagenkr. p. no; Klein, Licblingsinschr.
p. 24 ; Wernicke, Lieblingsn. p. 23. Much injured ; white accessories faded. Mannered style,
as in the two preceding vases by Exekias. On the neck, double honeysuckle. Under the
handles, a pattern of spirals. Below the designs, maeander and lotos-buds.

(a) Achilles and Ajax playing with pessi (type H.): On the r. is
Achilles seated on a block to 1., bearded, with long tresses and short curls in
front, high-crested helmet (raised), short embroidered chiton, striped himation,
and greaves with volutes, r. hand extended, in 1. two spears ; behind him a
Boeotian shield with device of a tripod; above is inscribed : A+IVEVJ. On the
1. is Ajax seated facing him, bearded, with short curly hair, high-crested helmet
(raised), cuirass, short diapered chiton, striped chlamys, and greaves with
volutes; in 1. hand two spears, with r. he is about to move one of the pessi,
of which seven are visible, on a table between them. Behind him is a Boeotian
shield with two pellets ; above: AlAJ. Between them is inscribed: VV5IPIAEJ
KAVOJ, Avannri,Sr]<i ica\6<; (cf. B 339).

{b) Heracles conducted to Olympos (type E. 11): A quadriga to r.,
in which are Athene, with long tresses, lofty helmet with cheek-pieces and fillet,
aegis with scales and fringe of snakes, long chiton and diapered over-chiton spear
in r. hand, and reins in both, and Heracles, bearded, with hair curly in front and
striped himation, carrying club. At the further side of the horses are Dionysos
looking back, with long beard and hair, ivy-wreath, long chiton and himation with
border of spirals, in r. hand a vine-branch, in 1. a cantharos), and further to the r.
Apollo, beardless, with long hair arranged in spirals in front (cf. Memnon in B
209), laurel-wreath, long striped chiton and embroidered himation, playing on